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Crowned Miss World 2011, Venezuela’s Ivian Sarcos\u00a0not so many years ago yearned to become a nun.<\/p>\n

Orphaned at age 8, she was\u00a0raised\u00a0by\u00a0the Catholic sisters\u00a0of the\u00a0Congregation of the Sacred Heart\u00a0in the rural town of Cojedes.<\/p>\n

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Miss World 2011 Ivian Sarcos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sunday, the 22-year-old accepted\u00a0her crown from U.S.-born\u00a0Miss World 2010 Alexandria Mills and reflected on her long journey from a rural South America nunnery to the bright lights of the London beauty pageant.<\/p>\n

Born in the village of Guanare, the youngest of 13 brothers and sisters, she lost both parents in separate car crashes as a third grader. For two years, her oldest brother tried to hold the family together, but reluctantly placed little Ivian with the nuns.\u00a0She told\u00a0pageant judges that her life’s\u00a0proudest moment was when she made her First Communion.<\/p>\n

“My whole family was together that day, so it’s a moment that I deeply appreciate,” she said.<\/p>\n

“My dream was to become a nun,” the beauty queen told reporters. However, she instead decided to accept an opportunity to go to college, earning a degree in human resources.<\/p>\n

Although the road to the Miss World title was not easy,\u00a0she said\u00a0believes it helped build her character as well as her faith.<\/p>\n

“This has taught me that life, although it may be bad, doesn’t have to end badly. Although I no longer have my parents it has taught me to be stronger,” she told\u00a0the Agence France Presse.<\/p>\n

She wants to use her title as a platform to help others. “I am an orphan. I would also like to help the elderly and troubled teenagers. As many people as I can.”<\/p>\n

“I believe that the next Miss World should be a woman of responsibility and reason,” she told judges. “Beauty with a heart.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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