Cilou Annys (born 20 March 1991) is a Belgian model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Belgium 2010 on 10 January 2010.cilou.net - Cilou's official homepage ''. She is also Miss West Flanders. Annys, the 80th
Miss Belgium
Miss Belgium is a national beauty pageant in Belgium. The winner of Miss Belgium automatically represents her country at the Miss World and Miss Universe pageants if the dates do not overlap.
History
Queen of the Beach
The first contest looking ...
Annys caused controversy when she posed on the cover of '' P-Magazine'', standing on the
Belgian flag
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, with
Flemish nationalist
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politician
Bart De Wever
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pictured cutting her "Miss Belgium" sash.
Annys and the national committee of the Miss Belgium contest immediately issued a press release in which they apologized to anyone who may have been offended by this image.
Miss Universe 2010
She placed in the Top 15 at the
Miss Universe 2010
Miss Universe 2010 was the 59th Miss Universe pageant, held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States on August 23, 2010.
At the end of the event, StefanÃa Fernández of Venezuela crowned Ximena Navarrete of Mexic ...
pageant held on 23 August 2010 in
Las Vegas
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,
Nevada
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and competed in
Miss World 2010
Miss World 2010 was the 60th anniversary of the Miss World pageant, held at the Crown of Beauty Theatre in Sanya, China, on 30 October 2010, after Vietnam backed out of the hosting contract.
Kaiane Aldorino of Gibraltar crowned Alexandria ...
a few months later.
Personal life
Annys studies interpreting and translation (French and Spanish) at the