Ekaterina Ponamareva

Oxana Fedorova is more interesting than her Miss Universe 2002 crown suggests. What strikes me is how she refused to be defined by a beauty title—singer, actor, model, a degree from a police academy, and even a turn toward politics. The crown was famously revoked, but I read that less as a stumble and more as someone choosing her own path over an imposed role. At 178 cm she won the world's top pageant, then kept reinventing herself. I find that refusal to stay in one lane genuinely admirable; she's harder to pin down than most, and better for it.

Name (English)

Ekaterina Ponamareva

Name (Japanese)

オクサナ・フェドローワ

Reading

おくさな・ふぇどろーわ

Born

December 17, 1977 (age 48)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Snake

Origin

Pskov, Pskov Oblast, Russia

Height

178 cm

Occupation

singer / actor / model / beauty pageant contestant / politician

University

St. Petersburg University of the Russian Interior Ministry

Awards & achievements

• 2002 Miss Universe
• 2001 Miss Russia

• Official sitehttps://fedorovaoksana.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/fedorovaoksana/
• Xhttps://x.com/fedoksana
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxana%20Fedorova
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1623076

Tags

• Pskov Oblast
• singer
• actor
• model

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.