Rima Fakih
Statistics
Ring Names	Rima Fakih
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight
Born	September 22 1985 (1985-09-22) (age 27)
	Srifa, South Governorate, Lebanon
Died
Resides	Dearborn, Michigan
Billed
Trained by	Tough Enough Trainer
Debut	April 4, 2011
Retired

Rima Fakih (ريما فقيه) (September 22, 1985) is an American beauty pageant contestant, and winner of the 2010 Miss USA title. She represented the state of Michigan in the Miss USA 2010 pageant, having previously won the 2010 Miss Michigan USA competition. She will also be on WWE Tough Enough.

Personal life

Fakih was born in Srifa, a small city in the Jabal Amel region of Southern Lebanon, to a Shi'a Muslim family. As a young child, she lived in the village of Souk El Gharb in Mount Lebanon, and attended St. Rita's, a Catholic school near Beirut. In 1993, her parents, Hussein and Nadia Fakih, moved their family to New York in order to escape effects of the Lebanese Civil War. Fakih attended St. John's Preparatory School, a Catholic high school in Queens. and her father ran a restaurant in Manhattan. In New York, Fakih's family felt they were subjected to threats and vandalism based on events in the Middle East, and business at her father's restaurant declined following the September 11, 2001, attacks. In 2003, her family moved to the large Arab-American community in Dearborn, Michigan. Fakih and her family are Muslim, but they also celebrate elements of Christianity, such as Christmas.

Fakih resides in Dearborn. She graduated from Henry Ford Community College, went on to earn degrees in economics and business management from the University of Michigan–Dearborn, and plans to attend law school after her year-long reign. She has a sister, who returned to live in Lebanon, and two brothers. Prior to winning the Miss USA title she worked as a sales associate at the Detroit Medical Center, developing and recruiting in the Arab American community.

Miss Universe

As holder of the Miss USA title, Fakih represented the United States in the 2010 Miss Universe pageant, held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on August 23. Fakih did not place as a semi-finalist and was the first Miss USA since Shauntay Hinton, Miss USA 2002, to not place at the Miss Universe pageant.

WWE Career

Fakih appeared on the November 29, 2010, edition of WWE Raw as a guest star. In the event, she crowned Sheamus, the winner of the King of the Ring tournament. Fakih is confirmed to compete on Tough Enough V on USA.

External links

• Miss USA official website
• Rima Fakih's blog