A former magnificence queen has revealed how she swapped the catwalk for church after a ‘message from God’.
Dayana Mendoza discovered fame after profitable the Miss Universe magnificence pageant again in 2008. She turned the primary winner from Venezuela since Alicia Machado in 12 years.
The blonde magnificence cashed in on her fame on the time, as she took half in Celebrity Apprentice alongside Donald Trump in 2012. She was additionally signed along with his Trump Model Management agency.
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However, the 37-year-old now preaches at church buildings across the US after deciding to go away the modelling world and ‘dedicate herself to serving God.’
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Dayana was baptised beneath the evangelical Christian faith three-and-a-half years in the past and now shares non secular content material on Instagram and YouTube, the place she has thousands and thousands of followers.
Talking about why she took up faith, Dayana mentioned her modelling profession was waning and her marriage had ended, prompting her to really feel that her life had “fallen apart.” She dropped to her knees and requested God to “take control”, claiming she might really feel his divine hand main her in the direction of her true path.
The former magnificence queen mentioned: “My marriage failed, my modelling profession didn’t fulfil me and didn’t establish with me. I used to be determined, nothing was going effectively. That was once I knelt down and surrendered myself. I requested God to take management.”
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She added: “I noticed his highly effective hand guiding me, serving to me discover the appropriate path. I listened to a pastor and from the primary second he spoke, it was like God saying it to me. Like he was answering all of the questions I had at that second. I started to really feel peace, my home had modified.”
Today, Dayana 1.9 million devoted followers on her non secular Instagram web page and likewise has 16,000 subscribers on her religious-themed YouTube channel. Many clips present her preaching in Spanish at church buildings all around the US.
In her most up-to-date video, she mentioned: “God’s fidelity is great. His love and mercy, infinite. There is no one like Jehovah.”