Egla Harxhi (born 1991) is an Albanian model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss World Albania 2007 and then represented her country at

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. She is the youngest

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to win the

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award and compete in the

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. She competed in the 2008

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beauty pageant held in

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, South Africa. After this experience she stopped her career in modeling and beauty pageants.

Private life

She is married to Alexandre Ale de Basseville. They have a son.

References

1991 births Albanian beauty pageant winners Albanian female models Date of birth missing (living people) Living people Miss World 2008 delegates Models from Tirana Albanian models 21st-century Albanian people {{Albania-bio-stub