Rozanna "Roz" Purcell (born 3 September 1990) is an Irish model, charity worker and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Ireland 2010 and represented Ireland at Miss Universe 2010.
Miss Universe
Purcell competed in Miss Universe Ireland 2009 and competed in Miss Universe 2010.[citation needed]
After Miss Universe
Purcell was offered a contract with Trump Model Management after the Miss Universe 2010 competition ended, and was offered additional contracts in Mexico and Colombia.[1] She was then invited to judge at the Miss Venezuela 2010 pageant. She later joined her mentor Andrea Roche's modelling agency in Ireland.[2]
An experienced hiker,[3] she has talked of her difficulties at temperatures of minus 25C on Kilimanjaro.[4]
In October 2013, she started her own food blog, naturalbornfeeder.com.[6] and published her first cookbook Natural Born Feeder in January 2016.
Her book The Hike Life: My 50 Favourite Hikes in Ireland was published in 2023 and named Lifestyle Book of the Year, as one of the 2023 Irish Book Awards.[7][8]