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Eva Ekvall, Former beauty queen and breast cancer campaigner, 1983 - 2011
Saturday December 24,2011
By Daily Express Reporter
THE former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall, who devoted the last years of her life to breast cancer awareness, has died of the disease in Houston, Texas.
Discovered by a model scout while working in a clothes shop in Caracas, Ekvall enjoyed a career of pageantry culminating in her being crowned Miss Venezuela in 2000, aged 17. She also came third in the Miss Universe competition of 2001 and went on to become a television news anchor. Good times continued when she met radio producer John Fabio Berm?dez, whom she married in September 2007.
Born to an American father of Swiss-Hungarian heritage and a Jamaican mother, Ekvall grew up in Caracas and graduated with a degree in journalism. It was fitting then, that? after being diagnosed with cancer in February 2010, six months after the birth of her only child Miranda, she decided to document her experiences in a book.
It was called Fuera de Foco (Out Of Focus), with portraits taken by the well-known Venezuelan photographer Roberto Mata. She said of the images, some of which displayed her undergoing chemotherapy: ?I don?t like to look ugly? but you know what? Cancer is not pretty.?
| Eva Ekvall, Former beauty queen and breast cancer campaigner, March 15 1983 - December 17, 2011, aged 28 |
Ekvall felt strongly that women needed to be more aware of the disease, acting as a spokeswoman for the Venezuelan breast cancer charity SenosAyuda.
In her last interview she said that Venezuelans have ?a bad memory? and if she were to fully recover in a year they would forget that she had ever been ill. In a way then, her death serves as a reminder but a deeply tainted one at that. On the possibility that the disease might return, Ekvall said: ?That?s the fear you live with for the rest of your life.? Sadly, in Ekvall?s case, that was not long at all.
She is survived by her husband, daughter, parents and brother.
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