Born in Moscow, Maria Yusefovna AlKasas came to Sri Lanka when she was a year old. Although Educated at the Buddhist Girls School in Mount Lavinia she is a devout catholic and she went on to earn her London A/levels at the British Council. She is fluent in Sinhala, Russian and English !
She will be representing Sri Lanka for Miss Tourism Queen International in Wenzhou, China with the finals to be held on November 9th, 2015.
Tall, petite and absolutely gorgeous, it came as no surprise to anyone when 21 year old Maria Al-Kansas bagged the title of Miss Seri Sri Lanka Online 2012. Although facing tough competition in the maiden virtual pageant which saw thousands applying from across the island, Maria charmed voters with her exotic beauty and charming personality.
Coming from a family with mixed heritage, her mother has Sri Lankan and Russian parentage, while her father is a syrian arab; has given her a unique blend of striking features that surely stood out from other contestants.
She starts her morning with a fruit juice and a vegetable salad, and have 6 to 7 small meals a day. eat lots of fruit and veg, and eats chicken once a week. she drink plenty of water throughout the day and visits the gym thrice a week and counts swimming and cycling as her favourite ways of keeping fit..
She is also a budding naturalist, having completed a course in wildlife art at the Young Zoologists’ Association. “My dream was to study wild life photography, but I couldn’t because I didn’t have the proper camera equipment needed for that so I stuck to wild life art. I do hope to take up wildlife photography in the future though.” she once said in an interview.
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