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Rima Fakih
Rima Fakih
Lebanese-American actress, model, professional wrestler and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA
2010. She represented the state of Michigan in the national pageant, having previously won the 2010 Miss
Michigan USA pageant. Fakih trained to be a WWE Diva in WWE. She competed on the fifth season of WWE
Tough Enough but was eliminated from the show on the fourth episode.
Fakih is widely believed to be the first Lebanese American, the first Arab American and the first Muslim to win
the Miss USA title; however, pageant officials have stated their records are not detailed enough to confirm this
claim.
In April 2016, Fakih converted to Maronite Christianity, in Bkerké, the see of the Maronite Catholic
Patriarchate, northeast of Beirut, before her marriage to Lebanese-Canadian music producer Wassim Salibi
on 15 May 2016.