Kerry Anne Wells biography: 13 things about Miss Universe 1972

Kerry Anne Wells is an Australian news anchor, writer, fashion designer and beauty queen born and raised in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. She is the first Miss Universe from Australia.

An expert in the reuse of space, Wells has a service redesigning floor plans online. In June 2006, she attended the official launch of Bodythink, a program running in schools in Victoria, Australia that encourages students to question the body image presented by the fashion industry.

“You may wonder what I’m doing here today given that when I was younger, as a model and briefly as a beauty titleholder, I perpetrated the promotion of a female body image which few women can emulate,” The Sydney Morning Herald quoted her as saying at the time. “I, like the others here today, are concerned that girls and boys are now increasingly insecure about the way they look.”

Wells worked as a television weather girl while her brother was a musician before she became a beauty queen. Their father Albert Wells is 6’5″ tall.

Kerry is 5’10” tall. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. In 1966, she left school.
2. From 1967 to 1983, she modeled professionally.
3. On September 12, 1971, she won the Miss Universe Australia 1971 and Australia’s Dream Girl 1971 titles at the Quest of Quests 1971 national final in Australia in Sydney, , New South Wales, Australia.
4. On June 6, 1972, she left Sydney aboard R.H.M.S. Britanis from Pyrmont, New South Wales. On July 29, 1972, she represented Australia at Miss Universe 1972, competed against 60 other candidates at the Cerromar Beach Hotel in Dorado, Puerto Rico and won the title. On September 6, 1972, she flew back to Sydney and surprised to find her parents waiting to greet her. On September 8, 1972, she attended the Sydney Festival Ballet’s production of “Giselle” at the Orpheum Theatre in Cremorne, Victoria.
5. On July 21, 1973, she crowned her successor Miss Universe 1973 Margarita Moran at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, Greece.
6. On July 19, 1975, she crowned Miss Universe 1975 Anne Marie Pohtamo at the National Gymnasium in San Salvador, El Salvador because Amparo Muñoz stopped fulfilling her duties as Miss Universe 1974 in January 1975.
7. In 1984, she started pursuing a career as a fashion designer and stylist.
8. In 2004, she started skiing.
9. On June 14, 2006, she attended a workshop with year nine students in Melbourne and the official launch of Bodythink, a program running in schools in Victoria that encourages students to question the body image presented by the fashion industry.
10. In 2009, she started playing the cello.
11. In May 2016, she told Fifty Shades of Old Age, “I have been with my current husband Mick for 16 years and we have an English bull terrier named Roxy.  They are the loves of my life.  I missed the children thing due to pelvic inflammatory disease in my 20s but have Mick’s kids and grandkids and tons of god children. My only nephew Brendan, aged 19, is also a big part of my life.” About her Miss Universe 1972 win, she said, “I rarely discuss that year because I have very little to say about it that is positive.”
12. In September 2022, she was featured in Everand.
13. On September 25, 2023, she turned 72.