Kelly Weekers

Kelly Weekers (born 20 August 1989) is a Dutch TV Host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Nederland 2011 and represented the Netherlands at Miss Universe 2011 placed Top 16.

Kelly Weekers
Born (1989-08-20) 20 August 1989
Weert, Netherlands
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Beauty pageant titleholder
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Hair colorBlonde
Eye colorBlue
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Biography

Weekers grew up with her sister Romy and parents. During her high school years Kelly worked as a waitress where she was scouted multiple times by agencies and started modelling. Weekers proceeded modelling as a part-time job during her high school and college years. Currently Weekers is doing shows, shoots and commercials around the world.

Pageantry

In April 2011 Kelly became Miss Limburg (the Miss of her province) which automatically made her compete in the grand finale of Miss Netherlands which she won on 10 July 2011. Kelly became Miss Netherlands Universe at an age of 21 years which made her one of the 89 official competitors in the Miss Universe 2011 pageant. In September of that year she went to Brazil for a full month to compete for the title of Miss Universe 2011. During the grand finale, after 20 years of non-placement, the Netherlands penetrated the Top 16 with Kelly as their ambassador.

After this victory she combined her work as Miss Netherlands Universe with modeling and was traveling around the world. Kelly went from the Five Star Diamond Awards in Cannes to judging a pageant in Washington D.C. and from doing charity work at an orphanage in Thailand to an appearance at the Grand Prix in Singapore. And in between she did her model castings in Amsterdam, Milan and Munich.[1]

Study

In September 2012 she decided that she wanted to go back to University. After receiving her bachelor's degree in Psychology and Neuroscience in the summer of 2011 and a sabbatical year of full-time Miss Netherlands activities and modeling she wanted to obtain her master's degree in Clinical and Health psychology. With only a half year internship left to complete, Kelly was a Master in Clinical and Health psychology in March 2014.

Career

Kelly has sold over 250,000 books, founded her own publishing house Moonshot Publishing, and with her other company, Moonshot Coaching, she helps people bring out the best in themselves which helps them live a happy and fulfilling private and professional life. Kelly’s mission? “I would like to help people find the guts to choose for themselves a bit more often. Staying true to who you are sounds incredibly cliché, but how do you actually do that?! And how to know what makes you happy in the first place?”

As of November 2022 she launched her bestseller also worldwide named 'The Power of Choice'. As of April 2023 her other bestseller 'Happy Life 365' is worldwide available.

In the press

References
  1. "Kelly Weekers uit Weert stopt als model". 1limburg. 3 Nov 2014.
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