Amelia Vega Biography
Amelia Vega (birth name: Amelia Victoria Vega Polanco and also known as Amelia Vega Horford) is a model, singer, actress, and beauty pageant titleholder who was the Miss Universe 2003 from the Dominican Republic. She was the first ever Dominican entrant to become Miss Universe.
Amelia is also the youngest winner of the Miss Universe crown at the age of 18, since 1994 and is also the tallest Miss Universe on record, standing at 1.88 m (6 feet 2 inches).
Amelia Vega Age
Amelia Vega Horford is 34 years old as of 2018. She was born in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic on 7th November 1984.
Amelia Vega Parents | Family
Vega is the daughter of Patricia Polanco Álvarez, a licensed pilot and previous national titleholder who represented the Dominican Republic at the Miss World beauty pageant in 1980 and Otto Miguel Vega Rasuk, a general medical practitioner with offices in New York City and Miami. She is also a niece-in-law of the Grammy Award-winning singer Juan Luis Guerra, the husband of her aunt Nora Clementina Altagracia Vega Rasuk.
Amelia Vega Husband | Married
Vega is married to NBA player Al Horford. The couple began dating in 2009 and after two years, they got married on December 24, 2011. They are parents to three children: a son named Ean Horford Vega who was born on February 23, 2015, a daughter called Alía Horford Vega, born on November 27, 2016 and another daughter Ava Amelia Horford Vega, born on July 11, 2018.
Amelia Vega with her husband Al Horford
Amelia Vega Beauty Pageants
Amelia began modeling at a young age and hence, she had the opportunity to compete in pageants. She took part in one for the Miss Dominican Republic title and won. This propelled her to represent her country at the Miss Universe 2003 competition that was held on June 3, 2003, in Panama City. She also won this pageant and was crowned in Panama. Vega had a white evening gown that featured strings of beads on the sleeves.
During her reign, she traveled widely and worked with organizations that dealt with HIV/AIDS and were known internationally. They included the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Cable Positive, Global Health Council, God’s Love We Delive and amfAR. She played the role of generating a better understanding and acceptance of AIDS/HIV epidemics through the international media. The mission also included speaking on prevention while helping to increase awareness, funding and resources for these key organizations.
She represented the Miss Universe Organization as a Miss Universe with. Vega’s “sister” titleholders 2003 were Tami Farrell (Miss Teen USA, of Oregon) and Susie Castillo (Miss USA, of Massachusetts).
Vega carried on her interest in modeling as she featured on the cover of several magazines such as Mujer Unica, Oh! Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Vanidades, Caras, InStyle, Selecta, Glamour, and Harper’s Bazaar. She has also done image campaigns by Cover Girl, the beauty cosmetics company.
Vega has also been a host of several shows and events like Festival Presidente, Suegras and Segunda Oportunidad with the Chilean Rafael Araneda in 2010. She appeared in her first film The Lost City in 2005 as Minerva Eros followed by the motion picture “Homie Spumoni” starring Donald Faison and Whoopi Goldberg, released in 2008.
Amelia Vega as a singer
Vega first sang in Madison Square and in the American Airline’s Arena with her uncle Juan Luis Guerra. She had recorded her first demo when she was 15 years old. Her first single is “Pasa Un Segundito” and it was released on 26th April 2010 by iTunes. In 2011, she made an announcement on Twitter that she would release her complete album “Agua Dulce” on iTunes on August 30, 2011. As she was promoting her music, she got the opportunity to open a concert for Mark Anthony And Chayanne in front of a crowd of 50,000 people.
Amelia Vega Net Worth
The former Miss Universe 2003 has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
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