Name Tang Wen
Birth date 1992
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Hometown Yichun
Occupation Model, Actress and student
Hair color Black
Eye color Black
Title Miss China 2010
Competition Miss Universe 2010
Biography
Born in Yichun, Heilongjiang province, Tang had a less than idyllic childhood. Her parents divorced when she was 3 and she moved in with her mother in Beijing when she was 15.
While in college, she earned money on the side by training prospective air hostesses on how to stand tall and wear the right make up. Her outstanding looks made modeling the obvious choice after graduation. "I knew I would end up in the fashion industry when I was very young," she says.
She has taken to the catwalk for most of the important women's fashion brands in China, and is a regular at China International Fashion Weeks. Tang's selection for the pageant was unusual. She was designated Miss China and sent to the competition directly by NSR, which has a cooperative agreement with the Miss Universe committee.
Tang Wen is China’s representative to the Miss Universe 2010 pageant. The recently crowned Miss China, is a 19 year old student and a young promising model from Yichun in Heilongjiang province. She starred in a movie directed by Tsui Hark entitled “Not All Women Are Bad” in 2008. According to the Hong Kong director, Tang is beautiful even without makeup.
She was chosen by Beijing-based New Silk Road Modeling Agency (NSR) as China’s representative to the upcoming international pageant. According to NSR’s CEO Li Xiaobai, Tang represents a typical ‘oriental beauty.’ NSR have taken opinions from various fashion editors of luxury brands and they all think that Tang possesses that kind of beauty.
Tang is full of hope and has a strong belief that she can win the Miss Universe 2010 title. She is the only contestant who is not fear to tell the world that she can make it to the top 5 and even get the title. According to Lowyat.net, even though China was not on the top 10 early favorites in the Miss Universe 2010 pageant, Tang is not worried.
