Kristina Koz-Gotlib, a 25-year old model and student stand 1.75 m, won the finals of Miss Ukraine Universe 2009. The ceremony had reigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela as special guest.

Koz-Gotlib will represent the Ukraine at the 2009 Miss Universe pageant to take place in July/August. Read more

Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko (born November 14, 1979) is a Ukrainian model and actress. She is best known for being the Bond girl in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace.

Personal life

Olga Kurylenko was born in Berdyansk, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine) on November 14, 1979 to a mother of Russian descent and father of Ukrainian descent. When Olga was three years old her parents divorced, leaving her to be raised by her mother. Olga rarely had contact with her father, meeting him for the first time when she was 8 years old, and later again when she was 13. In 2000, Kurylenko married French fashion photographer Cedric Van Mol, but the couple divorced four years later. In 2006 she married American mobile phone accessory entrepreneur Damian Gabriel Neufeld. They divorced in late 2007. Kurylenko has lived in Paris since leaving Ukraine in 1996 to pursue her modeling career. Read more