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Kimberley Busteed

Beauty pageant titleholder
Birth name	Kimberley Busteed
Birthplace	Gladstone, Australia
Eye color	Brown
Hair color	Blonde
Title(s)	Miss Australia 2007

Kimberley Busteed is the 2007 Miss Australia representing Australia at the 2007 Miss Universe pageant. She is a model and receptionist from Gladstone in Queensland, Australia. She is a former teen swimming champion and surf livesaving competitor.

Kimberley is the second cousin of Australian children's author Alexander S. Foxhall.

Whilst competing in Mexico during the Miss Universe 2007 contest she was heavily criticized for wearing her "tacky" national costume. Some of Australia's top designers branded the red lifesaving themed costume as "trashy" and "nothing to do with Australia's culture".

She won the Miss Universe Australia 2007 title shortly after the death of her grandfather. She missed his funeral whilst competing for the national title in Perth, but her family urged her to compete as "this is what he would've wanted you to do".

Nearing the end of 2008 Kimberley obtained a position as a TV presenter on Channel 7's 'Creek to Coast'.^[1]

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Preceded by Erin McNaught

Miss Australia 2007

Succeeded by Laura Dundovic

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