| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Born | Sarodj Bertin April 11, 1986 Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
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| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Hair color | Brown |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Title(s) | Miss Haiti Universe 2010 |
| Major competition(s) |
Miss Universe 2010 |
Sarodj Bertin, is best known as a beauty pageant contestant from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Bertin was born in Haiti, the daughter of Mireille Durocher Bertin, a Haitian lawyer. She worked for the International Alliance for Haiti's Recovery and is currently a law student living in the Dominican Republic. She speaks French, Spanish, English, and Creole fluently.
Bertin's mother, an outspoken critic of then president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was murdered on March 28, 1995 in Port-au-Prince. She was shot in broad daylight while being driven by a client, Eugene "Junior" Baillergeau, away from the US military's Camp Democracy headquarters. Baillergeau, who was killed along with Durocher Bertin, was in litigation with the US military over damages a US helicopter had allegedly done to his private plane.
After the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Bertin entered the Miss Haiti Universe contest and won. She then spent several months in Puerto Rico with the director of the Miss Dominican Republic and Miss Haiti franchises, Magali Febles, who took charge of her training for Miss Universe.
She represented Haiti in the Miss Universe 2010 beauty pageant held in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. on August 23, 2010. Bertin believed that competing in Miss Universe would give the people of Haiti a voice, stating, "there are many people who want to help but don't know how and sometimes they need a voice to tell them what are the necessities of the people. I want the people, through me, to be who says what their necessities are."[1]
| Preceded by Glaphyra Jean-Louis |
Miss Haiti 2010 |
Succeeded by Anedie Azael |