Rima Fakih Miss USA 2010 winner.

2010 Miss USA also known as the 59th Miss USA pageant just wrapped up awhile ago. The event was held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

24-year-old Arab-American Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA 2010 beating out 51 other beauty queens in the live pageant televised at NBC TV at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Miss USA 2010 winner Rima Fakih will represent the United States in Miss Universe 2010 pageant which is going to be held on August 22, 2010 in United States. Watch out for it.

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Fakih replaces Miss USA 2009 Kristen Dalton and won a spot representing the United States this summer in the 2010 Miss Universe pageant. She also gets a one-year lease in a New York apartment with living expenses, an undisclosed salary, and various health, professional and beauty services.

During the interview portion, Fakih was asked whether she thought birth control should be paid for by health insurance, and she said she believed it should because it’s costly.

“I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it’s a controlled substance,” Fakih said.

Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih Photos

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Rima Fakih Bio

Philanthropically minded and academically inspired, Dearborn, Mich. resident Rima Fakih became a Great Lakes household name on September 19, 2009, when she was crowned MISS MICHIGAN USA 2010. The competition a childhood dream, winning the title of MISS MICHIGAN USA presented Rima with the opportunity to continue her pursuits of higher education, and also to positively use her position of influence to advocate community service, charity and educational growth.

Born xx of 1986 in New York, Rima was raised in Dearborn with her parents and her younger brother, Rami. A graduate of St. John’s Preparatory Catholic High School, Rima attended the University of Michigan-Dearborn where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with a minor in Business Administration. Active in the campus community, Rima served her fellow students as class senator, in addition to acting as the president of the students in the school’s Free Enterprise Group. Always reserving time for community service, Rima spent much of her college years volunteering as a social worker through various community organizations.

At the conclusion of her 2010 MISS MICHIGAN USA reign, Rima plans to begin law school with aspirations to contribute to the Service Nation campaign, an initiative that aims to inspire a new era of voluntary citizen service in America.

While Miss Michigan USA, Rima will be an advocate for breast and ovarian cancer awareness, the official causes of the pageant, and also those that happen to be very dear to her heart. Demonstrably, she is an active member of the Pink Fund, a financial assistance organization dedicated to removing the short-term financial burden from breast cancer patients, and instead directing their energies toward healing. As Miss Michigan USA 2010, Rima will serve as one of the first official pageant ambassadors for women’s self-defense awareness, educating women on the importance of taking the necessary precautionary measures to best protect and prepare themselves from unwanted situations.

In her spare time, Rima enjoys running, dancing, kickboxing, the outdoors and spending time with her family, friends and, most of all, her younger brother.

(Source: MissMichiganUSA.com)