13 things about Miss Universe 2002 second runner-up Zhuo Ling

Zhuo Ling (卓灵) is the first Miss Universe China. She is also the first teenager to represent China in Miss Universe.

BIOGRAPHY

Zhuo Ling (卓灵) is a Chinese model and beauty queen from Shanghai, China. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. She is Zhuo Xiangbing‘s daughter.
2. She speaks Chinese and English.
3. As a teenager, she learned English while in a relationship with an American boyfriend, who was teaching English in Shanghai.
4. She is 5’9″ tall.
5. She was born in 1983.
6. After her parents divorced in 1997, she stayed with her father and suggested to him to try to remarry but he declined.
7. Before becoming Miss Universe China 2002, she was a contracted model of the Shanghai Yifei Model Agency, which is owned by Chen Yifei.
8. In the first round of Miss China 2002 in Shanghai, she finished third while Yang Daolin, a stewardess, ranked first.
9. In March 2002, she won the final round of Miss China 2002, which was secretly held in Enping, Guangdong, China because the Chinese government did not approve of beauty pageants at the time. The beauty pageant was organized by Shi Sizhi of the Beijing Golden International Investment and Consulting Company, which is based in Beijing, China.
10. In her Miss Universe 2002 paperwork, she listed that she had graduated from the Shanghai Academy of Dance although she actually did not. She later claimed she was forced to write that on the documents and was forced by the Beijing Golden International Investment and Consulting Company to sign a contract, agreeing to seek the company’s permission before participating in any promotional or advertising activities while reigning as Miss Universe China 2002.
11. On May 29, 2002, she represented China at Miss Universe 2002 and competed against 74 other candidates at the Coliseo Roberto Clemente in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She was second runner-up to Oxana Fedorova.
12. In December 2002, the Beijing Golden International Investment and Consulting Company filed a lawsuit against her in a court in Beijing, seeking $1.2 million in compensation for contract violation.
13. On July 22, 2015, Associated Press published on YouTube a video about her from July 15, 2002.