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Magdalina Valchanova

Bulgarian model (born 1977)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ3656840 ↗
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Magdalina Valchanova (Магдалина Вълчанова) is a Bulgarian model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Bulgaria 2000 and represented her country at Miss Universe 2000. She was also representative of the Bulgarian football team. She was born in 1977 in Plovdiv. In 2003 she posed for Playboy magazine.

Valchanova currently serves as the chairwoman of Face to Face Bulgaria, a non-governmental organization that prevents sex slavery in Bulgaria.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 1977, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-04-03. The account is most persuasive where Magdalina, Valchanova and Bulgarian can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Magdalina Valchanova” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.