Leilani Dowding (born 30 January 1980) is an English former Page 3
girl, glamour model, television celebrity, and the UK representative
at Miss Universe 1998.Leilani Dowding (born 30 January 1980) is an
English former Page 3 girl, glamour model, television celebrity, and
the UK representative at Miss Universe 1998.Dowding grew up in
Bournemouth, and has a younger sister Melanie. They were brought up
Roman Catholic by their Filipina mother Zena, and British father
Chris. Leilani was named after her mother's cousin and her name means
"heavenly flower".Dowding and her sister attended St Peter's School in
Bournemouth. She gained eleven GCSEs and three A-levels. She began an
economics degree at Royal Holloway, University of London, in Surrey,
with the intention of becoming a city trader. The then-18-year-old
entered and won the 1998 Miss Great Britain competition. In Hawaii
later that year she became the first woman of Asian descent to
represent Britain in the Miss Universe pageant. Leilani Dowding Top Movies & Young Movies