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Full Name
  
Melinda de Kok

Name
  
Melinda Bam

Title(s)
  
Miss South Africa 2011

Spouse
  
Adriaan Bergh (m. 2014)

Eye color
  
Brown

Height
  
1.7 m

Hair color
  
Blonde

Role
  
Model


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Born
  
14 May 1989 (age 34) Pretoria, South Africa (
1989-05-14
)

Occupation
  
Model, author, painter, fashion designer

Major competition(s)
  
Miss South Africa 2011 (Winner) (Miss Tropika) (Me Waterkloof and Candy Girl pageants) Miss Universe 2012 (Top 10)

Similar People
  
Renae Ayris, Adriaan Bergh, Gabriela Markus, Bodine Koehler, Karina Gonzalez

Alma mater
  
University of Pretoria

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Melinda Bam (born 14 May 1989) is a South African director, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss South Africa 2011, becoming the official representative of her country to Miss Universe 2012. She has a swimwear line called Bambshell, for which she worked with South African swimwear brand Dax Martin.

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Early life

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Melinda Bam (born Melinda de Kok) was raised in Pretoria. She was born in 1989 and has one sister, Melissa. She is a model and a student of B.Com Marketing from the University of Pretoria. She entered Miss South Africa 2011 and won the pageant on her first attempt.

Miss South Africa 2011

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She was crowned Miss South Africa 2011 at an event held at the Sun City Super Bowl on 11 December 2011.

Miss Universe 2012

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Melinda Bam represented South Africa in December at Miss Universe 2012, which was held in Las Vegas, and placed among the top 10.

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She did not participate in the Miss World 2012 pageant because if a contestant reaches the top three of the pageant she is not permitted to enter Miss Universe. The 1st princess Remona Moodley represented South Africa at Miss World 2012 instead.

Miss South Africa National Executive

In June 2013 it was announced that Melinda Bam was appointed as National Executive for the Miss South Africa Pageant, and she would be in charge of arranging potential sponsors for the pageant, as well as preparing the outgoing queen to both the Miss World and Miss Universe Pageants.

Personal life

Her family name is of German origin. However, Bam is also a Xhosa name, making the public mistake her for a Xhosa girl before she won the title. Bam announced in November 2013 that she is engaged to Mr South Africa 2011, Adriaan Bergh. The two former beauty pageant title carriers got engaged during a holiday in Dubai. They were married in November 2014 at Oakfield Farm, Gauteng, South Africa.

References

Melinda Bam Wikipedia