Mehr Eliezer (born 16 January 1997) is a Panamanian model, actress and

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titleholder who was crowned

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. She represented

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. Born in

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, she was raised in Panama and the

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Personal life

Mehr Eliezer was born in

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and raised in

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. She lived in Davao in the

for two years where she attended the Ateneo de Davao. She graduated from

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in 2015 and earned two Bachelor’s degrees in International Relations and Economics from

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in 2019. She is fluent in English and Spanish; she also speaks Hindi,

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and Portuguese. As a young girl she swam for one of the Panama swimming clubs and her school swimming team. She also did theater from a very young age and starred in "Saturday Night Fever" and "High School Musical" when she was in college. Mehr started boxing when she was 19. She started her singing career by launching her first single titled "Pecado" in 2020. "Pecado" was a huge success in Central America charting on Latin America's top 50 for 6 consecutive weeks. She then released "Chocolate" and "Lunatica" in 2021.

Pageantry

On 16 January 2019 Mehr attended the casting for the

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competition. On 20 June 2019 Eliezer began her pageantry career representing Isla Flamenco in the

competition at the

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in Panama City, where she was crowned as Miss Universe Panama 2019. Also, she won a special award of Miss Pandora. She succeeded

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. As

, Eliezer represented her country at

but unplaced.

References

External links

Señorita Panamá Official Website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eliezer, Mehr 1997 births Living people Miss Universe 2019 contestants Panamanian beauty pageant winners Panamanian female models People from Delhi Panamanian people of Indian descent Indian emigrants to Panama

Personal life

Pageantry

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