Elena Ierodiakonou () (born c. 1982) is a

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model and beauty pageant titleholder. She won the Miss Star Cyprus title () during the Carlsberg Pancyprean Official Beauty Contest in July 2005 and went on to represent

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at the 2006

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pageant in

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in July. She was brought up on the small Greek island of

Kalymnos Kalymnos (; ) is a Greek island and municipality in the southeastern Aegean Sea. It belongs to the Dodecanese island chain, between the islands of Kos (south, at a distance of ) and Leros (north, at a distance of less than ): the latter is lin ...

, near the seaside, where she used to swim every day. Her family moved back to Cyprus when she was eight. She describes herself as having the ability to see the positive view of every difficult situation.

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