Rachel Kum

Rachel Kum
Beauty pageant titleholder

Rachel Kum (right) with Lynn Tan (left) and Lisa Crosswhite (centre) at the LARUICCI Singapore launch event on 20 November 2014
Born Rachel Janice Kum
(1985-04-08) 8 April 1985
Singapore
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight 49 kg (108 lb)

Rachel Kum (born April 8, 1985) is a Singaporean entrepreneur who co-founded Rachel K Cosmetics, a Singaporean cosmetics company. She is also a former beauty pageant participant who won Miss Singapore Universe 2009. She represented Singapore as a contestant[1] in the Miss Universe 2009 pageant, which was held at the Atlantis Paradise Island, in Nassau, Bahamas on August 23, 2009.

Career

Born and raised in Singapore, Rachel graduated from Finance at the University of Western Australia. Kum created her own cosmetic brand, Rachel K Cosmetics. Rachel K Cosmetics launch was filmed by Channel News Asia which featured her special guest and friend, Eduardo Saverin (Co-founder of Facebook).[2]

In 2009, Rachel was featured in a Windows commercial in AXN Asia television.[3]

Controversy

Less than 2 months before Kum was due to depart for the Miss Universe 2009 pageant, images surfaced of her performing fellatio on a birthday cake[4] and in a suggestive pose with a sex doll.[5] This caused a lot of controversy amongst Singaporean netizens, who demanded she be stripped of her Miss Singapore Universe title and disallowed from participating at Miss Universe. Kum participated anyway but did not place in the Top 15. The pageant was ultimately won by Stefanía Fernández of Venezuela.

Kum has also lied about having plastic surgery,[6] and hereby remains one of the most controversial Asian pageant contestants.

Furthermore, Kum lost more than 50% of her Instagram followers in December 2014 after the social networking application attempted to purge its platform of fake followers. Her Instagram followers fell from 27,000 to 12,000[7] and she currently has 528.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Miss Universe Organization. "Miss Universe Singapore 2009 - Rachel Kum". MISS UNIVERSE.
  2. ↑ Millennials, Channel News Asia with Rachel Kum on YouTube featuring Eduardo Saverin
  3. ↑ Windows phone - What's Your Style? on YouTube
  4. ↑ http://www.sammyboy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1018&d=1246889478
  5. ↑ http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20090709-153749.html
  6. ↑ http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/none/rise-and-fall-asian-beauty-queen-085281/
  7. ↑ http://redwiretimes.com/chio-watch/pictures-former-miss-singapore-universe-rachel-kum-victim-unwelcome-instagram-purge/
  8. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/rachelkum/
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