Keity Mendieta
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Keity Mendieta Britton, (Ciudad de Panamá) Panamá
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

 is a Panama
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

nian model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

 and beauty pageant
Beauty contest
A beauty pageant or beauty contest, is a competition that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests often incorporate personality, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria...

 contestant winner of the Miss International Panamá 2011
Miss Panamá
Señorita Panamá or Miss Panamá is the common name or sash used to identify a Panamanian representative in an international pageant. Panama selects representatives to different contests including Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Earth and Miss International. The first national pageant was Miss Panamá...

 title. She participate in the contest Miss Panamá 2011
Miss Panamá 2011
Miss Panamá 2011 the 44th Annual Miss Panamá pageant was held in the Atlapa Convention Center, Ciudad de Panamá, Panama the Thursday 26, May 2011.After 23 years, the Señorita Panamá pageant, organized by Medcom Corporation, was finally cancelled...

 won the title Virreina Panamá.

Early life

Born in Ciudad de Panamá, Mendieta is a Model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

 of U.S. ancestry, her father is from United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 and Panamanian mother of Indian
Indian people
Indian people or Indisians constitute the Asian nation and pan-ethnic group native to India, which forms the south of Asia, containing 17.31% of the world's population. The Indian nationality is in essence made up of regional nationalities, reflecting the rich and complex history of India...

 ancestry. She is a graduate from the high school at American College in Panama City
Panama City
Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...

.

Modelling career

The start of her modeling career took place when she won the "Chica Chico Modelo" contest in 2008. It gave Mendieta the chance to work for Physical Modelos, her official modeling agency as of today and represent Panamá in the Ford Model’s Supermodel Of The World 2008.

In the same year, Keity represented Panama in the Miss Teen America and the Caribbean, making three awards: Miss Teen Photogenic, Miss Teen Model and Third Princess contest.

Miss Panamá 2011

Mendieta is 5 ft 9 in (1.77 m) tall, and competed in the national beauty pageant Miss Panamá 2011
Miss Panamá 2011
Miss Panamá 2011 the 44th Annual Miss Panamá pageant was held in the Atlapa Convention Center, Ciudad de Panamá, Panama the Thursday 26, May 2011.After 23 years, the Señorita Panamá pageant, organized by Medcom Corporation, was finally cancelled...

, obtained the title of Virreina Panamá. She represented the state of Panamá Centro.

Miss International

She represented Panamá
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

 in the 2011 Miss International
Miss International 2011
Miss International 2011, the 51st edition of the Miss International pageant, was held on November 6, 2011 at the International Tennis Center, in Chengdu, China...

 pageant, held on Chengdu, China on November 6, 2011.
She finished as 4th Runner up.

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