Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Gina Marie Tolleson won the title of Miss South Carolina USA 1990 and was 1st runner up at Miss USA 1990. She went on to win the Miss World beauty pageant in 1990, representing the United States. She later went on to meet television personality Alan Thicke when she hosted the 1992 Miss World USA pageant. Shortly afterwards, the two were married. They had a son, Carter Thicke in July 1997, divorcing in 1999. Gina became executive editor of Santa Barbara Magazine in 2002. She married Christian Wiesenthal in 2003 and have two sons, Luca, born September 2005 and Tiago, born December 2006. Gina was also the first Miss World to host and give up the crown in the same stage. She along with British television personality Peter Marshall hosted the 1991 pageant from World Congress Center in Atlanta.
The runners-up were:
1st runner-up: Siobhan McClafferty (Ireland)
2nd runner-up: Sharon Raquel Luengo Gonzalez (Venezuela)
Finalists:
3rd runner-up: Nina Björkfelt (Finland)
4th runner-up: Adele Valerie Kenny (New Zealand)
The delegates who made in the top ten are:
Gwendolyne Charlotte Kwidama (Aruba), Gabrielle Stap (Holland), Erica Aquart (Jamaica), Ewa Maria Szymczak (Poland), and Julide Ates (Turkey).
Special awards
Miss Personality: Sabina Ifeoma Umeh (Nigeria)
Most Photogenic: Sharon Raquel Luengo Gonzalez (Venezuela)
Continental Queens
Africa: Aisha Wawira Lieberg - Kenya
America: Gina Tolleson - United States
Asia & Oceania: Adele Kenny - New Zealand
Caribbean: Erica Aquart - Jamaica
Europe: Siobhan McClafferty - Ireland
***Preliminary swimsuits in Miss World 1990 were held in Norway.
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