Ada Aimée de la Cruz Ramirez
(born on June 15, 1986 in Villa Mella, Santo Domingo Province,
Dominican Republic) is Miss Dominican Republic 2009 and Miss Universe
2009 first runner-up.
She
first came to fame as Miss Dominican Republic World 2007, where she
placed in the top 15 at Miss World 2007 and was Miss World Beach Beauty
2007. She later was crowned Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2009. She
represented the original home of her grandparents, the Province of San
José de Ocoa and represented the Dominican Republic at the Miss Universe
2009 gaining high praise and finishing as First Runner Up.
She
is the second woman of mixed African and Spanish heritage to win the
Miss Dominican Republic pageant (the first was Ruth Ocumárez in 2001).
Ada
was born in Villa Mella and raised in Villa Altagracia and returned to
Santo Domingo at the age of 14, lives with her mother Ana Martínez
Ramírez, grandparents Celeste Ramírez and Ventura Garabito, her younger
brother Adrián and her little cousin. In the Dominican press, she is
known as a Dominican Cinderella, in which her grandmother was a maid and
her whole family grew up poor.
