Laksmi Rodríguez

{{short description|Venezuelan model who is Miss Venezuela International 2008 and Miss Supranational Venezuela 2010}}

{{Infobox pageant titleholder

| name=Laksmi Rodríguez

| birth_date= {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1985|11|19}}

| birth_place= San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela

| alias=Laksmi Rodríguez

| birth_name= Laksmi Rodríguez de la Sierra Solórzano

| height={{height|m=1.78|precision=0}}

| nationalcompetition=Miss Venezuela 2008
(Miss Venezuela International 2008)
Miss Supranational Venezuela 2010
(Winner)
Miss International 2009
(Top 15)
Miss Supranacional 2010
(Top 20)

| eye_color= Brown

| hair_color= Brown

|title=Miss Venezuela International 2008
Miss Supranational Venezuela 2010}}Laksmi Rodríguez de la Sierra Solórzano (born November 19, 1985, in San Cristóbal) is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela International 2008.{{cite web|publisher=El Universal|title=Miss Trujillo Stefanía Fernández fue electa Miss Venezuela|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/2008/09/10/til_ava_miss-trujillo-stefan_10A1979003.shtml|accessdate=2008-09-10}} She competed in the Miss International 2009 beauty pageant.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

Rodríguez, who is {{height|ft=5|in=10}} tall, competed in the national beauty pageant Miss Venezuela 2008, on September 10, 2008, and obtained the title of Miss Venezuela International. She represented Monagas state.

She stands {{convert|178|cm|ftin|abbr=on}} and her measurements are 90–61–90.

Laksmi also participated in the Miss Supranational 2010 competition, where she managed to advance to the final ten, finally occupying the sixth position.

Life and career

= Early life =

Rodríguez studied Social Communication at the Santa María University, in Caracas.

Pageantry

= Miss Venezuela 2008 =

Rodríguez was selected to represent the Monagas state in Miss Venezuela 2008. Competing with 27 other candidates. At the end of the event, on September 10, 2008, at the Poliedro de Caracas, she was crowned by her predecessor, Dayana Colmenares, as Miss Venezuela International 2008.{{Cite web|date=2008-09-13|title=AFP: Trujillana Estefanía Fernández gana corona del Miss Venezuela 2008|url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jjRmucQvzerN5qaRZHqXQYxn98vA|access-date=2021-08-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913231432/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jjRmucQvzerN5qaRZHqXQYxn98vA|archive-date=2008-09-13}}

In addition, the designer Gionni Straccia, won the award for Best Design in Evening Dress, which was awarded for the first time in the history of the contest; this thanks to the creation carried by Laksmi in the final night.

= Miss International 2009 =

Rodríguez represented Venezuela at Miss International 2009.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

= Miss Supranational 2010 =

After this, the Miss Venezuela Organization in conjunction with Osmel Sousa, decided to select her to represent the country at Miss Supranational 2010.

Rodríguez finally represented Venezuela in the Miss Supranational 2010 pageant.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

Personal life

She has been in a long-term relationship with the Chilean singer, Beto Cuevas, former vocalist of La Ley; It was even stated that they were together even when he was a partner of the actress Bárbara Mori and the latter in turn of Elías Wehbe, who died.

On Thursday, April 11, 2013, while she and a companion were going to their residence in Bello Monte, Caracas, they were intercepted by a group of antisocials who shot the vehicle in which they were in the event, Rodríguez is shot in the chest from which she would recover satisfactorily. However, her friend died hours later in the hospital.{{Cite web|date=2013-07-08|title=Ex Miss Laksmi Rodríguez recibió un disparo en el tórax {{!}} Últimas Noticias|url=http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/actualidad/sucesos/ex-miss-laksmi-rodriguez-recibio-un-disparo-en-el-.aspx|access-date=2021-08-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708195019/http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/actualidad/sucesos/ex-miss-laksmi-rodriguez-recibio-un-disparo-en-el-.aspx|archive-date=2013-07-08}}

References

External links

{{Instagram|laksmidelasierra}}
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_erKGBkJG8c Laksmi's Video at Youtube]

{{succession box

| before = {{flagicon|Ecuador}} Jennifer Pazmiño
{{flagicon|Japan}} Kyoko Sugiyama
{{flagicon|Lebanon}} Jessica Kahawaty
{{flagicon|Philippines}} Patricia Fernandez
{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} Miriam Pabón
{{flagicon|Turkey}} Gülsün Uslu
{{flagicon|Venezuela}} Dayana Colmenares
(Top 12)

| title = Miss International
Top 15 Semifinalist
(with {{flagicon|Belarus}} Yana Supranovich, {{flagicon|Belgium}} Cassandra D'Ermilio, {{flagicon|Brazil}} Rayanne Morais, {{flagicon|Canada}} Chanel Beckenlehner, {{flagicon|Cuba}} Patricia Rosales, {{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} Victoria Fernández, {{flagicon|Finland}} Linda Wikstedt, {{flagicon|Japan}} Yuka Nakayama, {{flagicon|Panama}} Joyce Jacobi, {{flagicon|Philippines}} Melody Gersbach and {{flagicon|Spain}} Melania Santiago)

| years = 2009

| after = {{flagicon|Costa Rica}} Mariela Aparicio
{{flagicon|France}} Florima Treiber
{{flagicon|Germany}} Johanna Acs
{{flagicon|India}} Neha Hinge
{{flagicon|Japan}} Etsuko Kanagae
{{flagicon|Korea}} Ko Hyeon-yeong
{{flagicon|Peru}} Laura Spoya
{{flagicon|Philippines}} Krista Kleiner
{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} Aideliz Hidalgo
{{flagicon|Serbia}} Anja Šaranović
{{flagicon|Spain}} Desirée Panal
{{flagicon|Turkey}} Dilay Korkmaz

}}

{{Succession box

| title = Miss Supranational
Top 10 Semifinalist
(6th Place)

| years = 2010

| before = —

| after = {{flagicon|France}} Analisa Kebaili

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| title = Miss Venezuela International

| years = 2008

| before = {{flagicon|Carabobo}} Dayana Colmenares

| after = {{flagicon|Trujillo}} Elizabeth Mosquera

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