Ali Landry
Landry in 2008
Born	Ali Germaine Landry Cecilia, Louisiana, U.S.
Spouses	Mario Lopez ​ ​ (m. 2004; ann. 2004)​ Alejandro Gómez Monteverde ​ ​ (m. 2006)​
Children	3
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title	Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1990 Miss Louisiana USA 1996 Miss USA 1996
Years active	1997–present
Major competition(s)	Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1990 (Winner) Miss Teen USA 1990 (Top 12) Miss Louisiana USA 1996 (Winner) Miss USA 1996 (Winner) Miss Universe 1996 (Top 6)

Ali Germaine Landry^[1] (born July 21, 1973) is an American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who wonMiss USA 1996. She played Rita Lefleur on theUPN sitcomEve and was theDoritos Girl in a 1998Super Bowlcommercial. In 1998, she was named byPeople magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world.^[2]

Landry was named afterAli MacGraw after her mother had seen the 1970 filmLove Story. Landry grew up inCecilia, Louisiana, the daughter of Renella (Ray) and Gene Allen Landry.^[3] Landry is of French (Cajun) descent.^[4][5] She attendedCecilia High School, graduating in 1991. In high school, she was captain of thecheerleaders. She attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana, nowUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette, and majored in mass communication. She is a member ofKappa Delta sorority.

Her first foray into pageantry came in 1990 when she was crownedMiss Louisiana Teen USA. She represented Louisiana in the 1990Miss Teen USA pageant held inBiloxi, Mississippi in July 1990, where she placed first in the preliminary swimsuit and evening gown competitions, but was ranked seventh during the final competition.

In 1995, Landry won the 1996Miss Louisiana USA title, becoming the first former Miss Louisiana Teen USA to win Miss Louisiana USA. She went on to compete in the 1996Miss USA pageant, which was broadcast live fromSouth Padre Island, Texas in February 1996 – she placed third highest after the preliminary competition and second highest on average during the final Top 10 competition. She was the highest placed of the Top 6 finalists and eventually went on to win the1996 title.

She is the first former Miss Teen USA delegate to win the Miss USA crown outright (her predecessorShanna Moakler, previouslyMiss Rhode Island Teen USA,Miss New York USA and first runner-up toMiss USAChelsi Smith, only inherited the title after Smith becameMiss Universe).

Landry competed in the 1996Miss Universe pageant held inLas Vegas in May that year. She placed first in the preliminary competition and was ranked second in the evening gown and interview events during the final competition. She was second going into the next round of six delegates, but she was eliminated after the judges' questions.

Until 1999, Landry was the only former Miss Teen USA delegate to compete at Miss Universe. Her record at all three pageants was not surpassed until 2000 whenMiss USA 2000,Lynnette Cole made the top 5 at all three pageants.

Landry has done much modeling for photographers and magazines. As a spokeswoman for theDoritos chips brand, she appeared in celebrated TV commercials airing during the 1998, 1999 and 2000Super Bowl football games. She was named byPeople magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world in 1998.^[6] Her house was featured onE!'s celebrity homes and onMTV'sCribs. She has been listed as one ofFHM magazine's100 Sexiest Women in the World numerous times. She was twice named onStuff Magazine's 100 Sexiest Women list.Askmen.com has named her one of the 50 Most Beautiful Women and 99 Most Desirable Women in the World.

In 2002, she hosted the second season of the hidden-camera seriesSpy TV. From 2003 to 2006, she was a regular cast member of theUPN sitcomEve.

Landry has participated in the showFear Factor and was runner-up. She is an avid athlete and also participated in theBoston Marathon.

She has hosted the English and Spanish-language versions ofSpotlight to Nightlight, an interview show onYahoo! where she talks with celebrity mothers about parenting issues. She also launched a lifestyle line, Belle Parish in 2009. Belle Parish launched with a children's clothing line in September 2009, to be in stores spring 2010. The line is inspired by her Southern upbringing and the keepsake items her mother saved from her childhood.

Landry starred in (and was the executive producer of)TV Guide Network's show,Hollywood Moms' Club, in November 2011.^[7] For the year 2012 she was the new face and spokesmodel ofPalmer's Cocoa Butter Formula, following in the footsteps of celeb momsSamantha Harris andLaila Ali who previously posed for Palmer's.^[8]

Landry met actor and TV personalityMario Lopez when he presented theMiss Teen USA 1998 pageant and she was a commentator. They were engaged during the summer of 2003 and married on April 24, 2004, in aCatholic ceremony in front of 50 guests at the exclusive Las Alamandas resort outsidePuerto Vallarta, Mexico.^[9] Two weeks later, she had the marriageannulled after learning that Lopez was unfaithful during his bachelor party before the wedding.^[9][10]

She married film directorAlejandro Gómez Monteverde on April 8, 2006, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.^[11][12] They have three children: a daughter born in July 2007,^[13] and sons born in October 2011^[14] and July 2013.^[15] Their son Valentin's middle name was inspired byPope Francis, as Landry and Monteverde met him while she was pregnant and he blessed the baby.^[15]

Her father-in-law, Juan Manuel Gómez Fernández, and brother-in-law, Juan Manuel Gómez Monteverde, were found dead with fatal head wounds in Pueblo Viejo, in the Mexican state of Veracruz, on September 19, 2015, approximately two weeks after they were kidnapped from their home in nearby Tamaulipas.^[16] On November 9, 2015, six people were arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Gómez Fernández and Gómez Monteverde. The suspects were allegedly holding six Central American nationals hostage at the time of their arrest, according to the Chief of theMexican Federal Police.^[17]

Landry and her husband Alejandro Monteverde made the filmBella together.Bella was directed by Monteverde and was produced by their business partners Sean Wolfington,Eduardo Verástegui, Leo Severino, and Denise Pinckley.^[18] Monteverde and the filmmakers received honors forBella from the Toronto Film Festival, the Smithsonian and the White House. The Smithsonian Latino Center honored Monteverde with their "Legacy Award".^[19] Monteverde was also given the "Outstanding American by Choice" award forBella's positive contribution to Latino art and culture in the U.S.^[20]

US PresidentGeorge W. Bush and First LadyLaura Bush saw the film and invited Monteverde to sit with Laura Bush in her private box during the annualState of the Union speech in 2007.^[21]

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