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Sabrina Houssami (born July 12, 1986) is a former Miss World Australia. She gained the title although though she did not officially win the national competition. The judges cancelled the pageant for that year, due to Miss World pageant been preponed by 3 months and gave Sabrina the title directly.

Sabrina was born in the city of Sydney. She initially lived in the Sydney suburb of Kemps Creek, and eventually moved to the riverside suburb of Georges Hall. She attended Sefton High School for her secondary education. She comes from a multicultural heritage. Her mother Alka is Hindu-Indian and her father Ahmad is Muslim-Lebanese. She has a younger sister named Abbi. She is reported to be a practising Islam.

Sabrina is a Liberal Arts student at the University of Sydney. Her personal motto is “He, who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own”.

During her campaign to become Miss World, it was discovered that she or her representatives fraudulently posed as different people on internet sites in order to create the impression that she enjoyed greater public support then she actually did.