Cynthia Muvirimi

{{short description|Zimbabwean-born model (born 1983)}}

{{autobiography|date=January 2011}}

{{Infobox pageant titleholder

| name=Cynthia Muvirimi

| image= Miss Zimbabwe 08 Cynthia Muvirimi.jpg

| caption = Cynthia Muvirimi

| birth_name= Cynthia Maideyi Muvirimi

| title= (Miss Tourism Zimbabwe 2007)
Miss Global International 2007

| birth_date= 1983

| birth_place= Harare, Zimbabwe

| height= {{height|m=1.73|precision=0}}

| eye_color=Black

| hair_color=Black

}}Cynthia Maideyi Muvirimi is a Zimbabwean model and beauty pageant titleholder who represented Zimbabwe in the Miss World 2008 pageant.{{cite news |title=Zimbabwe: Cynthia Muvirimi is New Miss Tourism Zimbabwe |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200712170201.html |work=The Herald |date=2007-12-17 |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}

Early life

The twelfth of thirteen children, Muvirimi was born in Harare. She attended Cecil John Rhodes Junior School and went on to Thornhill High School, both in Gweru, Zimbabwe. Muvirimi received a diploma in Nursing and an Honorary Bachelor of Science degree from London Southbank University.[http://www.missglobalinternational.com/content/home/] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019044844/http://www.missglobalinternational.com/content/home/|date=October 19, 2007}}

Muvirimi has participated in pageants since her high school days. In 1999, she was named Miss Thornhill High and later that year she went on to win the Miss Midlands Schools title.

Pageants

Muvirimi was first runner-up in the UK-based Miss Malaika 2006 pageant.

On 3 June 2007, at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica, Muvirimi won the title of Miss Global International, and in December of that same year, she won the title of Miss Tourism Zimbabwe, earning a shot at the 2008 Miss World final title{{cite web |url=http://www.misstourism.co.zw |title=Account Suspended |publisher=Misstourism.co.zw |accessdate=2013-10-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424162040/http://www.misstourism.co.zw/ |archivedate=2012-04-24 }} in Johannesburg, South Africa on 13 December 2008.

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