Leilani Dowding (born 30 January 1979) is an English Page Three girl, glamour model, television celebrity, and Miss Universe contestant. Dowding grew up in Bournemouth, and has a younger sister Melanie. They were brought up Roman Catholic and attended St Peters School Bournemouth by their Filipina mother Zena, and British father Chris. Leilani was named for her mother's cousin and her name literally means "heavenly flower". Dowding did well in school, earning eleven GCSEs and three A-levels. She studied for an economics degree at Royal Holloway, University of London, in Surrey, with the intention of becoming a city trader. The then eighteen-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 After her success in beauty pageants, Dowding dropped out of university to pursue a full-time modelling career. Although she had not originally considered topless modelling, she started appearing as a Page Three girl in The Sun newspaper in 1999. Her younger sister Melanie ("Mel") Dowding also had a brief career as a model, during which the sisters posed topless together. Melanie is working as a promotional model in the motorsport industry. In 2003 she was rated #89 on the FHM Sexiest Women in World list.
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