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Juél-Maddie Daisi Pollard Sepulveda (born May 21, 1980 in Newark, New Jersey, United States) is an American model, international beauty queen, businesswoman, author, and actress. In 2005, she was crowned Miss Jamaica International, which led her to compete at a higher level. She was the first Jamaican candidate to compete in the Miss Earth 2005, Miss Asia Pacific 2005, and Miss Beauty Queen World 2005, and is the only known candidate to hold three different national titles throughout a single pageant career. In addition to her pageant and modeling career, she has embarked on other endeavors, which include business ventures, public speaking engagements, books, and appearances in films and television. Pollard Sepulveda is involved in charity work for various causes, most notably her association with meningitis. She is of Jamaican and Middle-Eastern descent. Pollard Sepulveda was born with a minor birth deformity in her left eye, called an upper eyelid coloboma, which hindered her early years both socially and professionally as a result of childhood bullying and low self-esteem. She had reconstructive surgery at the age of 22. After her father died, Pollard Sepulveda and her mother moved from New York City to Virginia where her mother remarried. Shortly thereafter, she entered into the foster care system after her mother and step-father were charged with child neglect. At the age of 12, Pollard Sepulveda was adopted by her paternal grandmother and moved to Connecticut. Her grandmother thought she had potential as a model, actor and dancer and enrolled her in the Barbizon School of Modeling in Stamford, Connecticut; she studied theater and ballet concurrently. Her early work involved regular appearances as a showroom model, department store fashion shows, catalogs and runway modeling at the New York Fashion Cafe. Her body of work includes Los Angeles Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week, LA Urban Fashion Week, Jam Vibez magazine, Reggae Planet, Gap, Old Navy, MTV, Lifetime's: How to Look Good Naked (episode 2.2), Bravo's Launch My Line. "Bare Minimal" (episode 4) and Good Day LA. She has also appeared on international networks TVJ, and CVM's Smile Jamaica and Star World ABS-CBN in Asia. She had small parts in the films King of the Streets by Laguna Productions, Addicted to Blood (2011) and Box of Shadows (2010). In 2014, Sepulveda walked for Laurie Elyse in the 2014 New York Couture Fashion Week. In 2015, she made a cameo appearance in the German movie ABC's of Superheroes. She is the spokesmodel for the clothing company VencciLA.
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