13 things about Miss Universe Honduras 2021 Rose Melendez

Rose Marian Melendez Lopez represented Honduras in the 70th edition of Miss Universe. It was won by Harnaaz Sandhu of India.

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BIOGRAPHY

Melendez is a Honduran volleyball player, model and beauty queen originally from Colon, Honduras. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. She belongs to the Garifuna people, a mixed African and indigenous people who are descended from the Black Caribs, who lived on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent.
2. She was born and raised in Limon, Colon.
3. From Limon, she moved to San Pedro Sula, Cortes, Honduras.
4. She once worked as a real estate consultant.
5. She and Dakotah Rogers have a son together.
6. She was born in 1994.
7. She won Miss Honduras Ébano 2016.
8. She is Miss Limon Universe 2021.
9. She won Miss Honduras Universo 2021.
10. While reigning as Miss Universe Honduras 2021, she pursued a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
11. She was a Miss Universe 2021 candidate.
12. After competing at Miss Universe 2021, she moved to New York City, New York, United States.
13. In 2023, she became a wife and a mother.

TIMELINE

Melendez is 5’9″ tall. She was competing in the Sula Valley Volleyball League when she won Miss Honduras Universo 2021.

2016

• In August 2016, she represented Limon at Miss Honduras Ébano 2016, competed against 17 other candidates and won the title.

2020

• On April 16, 2020, she visited La Ceiba, Atlantida, Honduras.
• On June 3, 2020, she took to Instagram to support the Black Lives Matter movement.

2021

• On March 13, 2021, she visited Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
• On April 9, 2021, she visited the Rio Zacate Trail in the Pico Bonito National Park in Honduras.
• In June 2021, she visited Sambo Creek in Atlantida.
• On August 28, 2021, she represented Limon and competed against 15 other candidates at Miss Honduras Universo 2021 at the Infinity Bay Spa and Beach Resort in Roatán, Bay Islands, Honduras. She won the title.
• On December 12, 2021, she represented Honduras at Miss Universe 2021 and competed against 79 other candidates in Eilat, Israel. She was unplaced.

2022

• On June 30, 2022, she crowned her successor Miss Honduras Universo 2022 Rebecca Rodriguez at the Plaza de las Banderas in San Pedro Sula.

2023

• In January 2023, she and Rogers got married in Texas, USA.
• In July 2023, she gave birth to a baby boy in a hospital in New York.

2024

• In February 2024, she walked for Rian Fernandez at the 2024 New York Fashion Week in New York City.
• In November 2024, she and Rogers visited Miami, Florida with their son.

2025

• On February 7, 2025, she visited the Miss Universe headquarters in New York City.