Veronika Didusenko

After disqualification, Didusenko gave a press conference where she claimed the rules of the Big Four international beauty pageants were discriminatory. The news of Didusenko’s disqualification was widely covered by the international media. The story was featured in The Daily Mail, Fox News, Cosmopolitan, New York Post, BBC and Reuters. This gained Didusenko thousands of followers around the world and turned her into a media celebrity.

In September 2018 Veronika Didusenko became the winner of the Miss Ukraine 2018 pageant, the preliminary stage competition to Miss World, Miss Earth and Miss International. The winner of Miss Ukraine goes on to represent her country at the Miss World. It is believed that apart from her appearance and personality, the jury members were impressed by her charity project Young Einsteins Ukraine.

She is engaged to Gennadiy Kurochka, Ukrainian businessman and one of the co-founders of Ukraine Crisis Media Center. The couple announced their engagement during their vacation in Thailand in December 2018.

In 2012, Didusenko went on to study Mechanics and Mathematics at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv where she defended her work "Pulse systems for solving linear integro-differential equations" and received a Bachelor's degree in 2016.

In 2010, Didusenko was admitted and received a state scholarship to study at a highly selective Ukrainian Humanitarian Lyceum ranked as the number 1 secondary school in the country at the time of Didusenko’s admission. Originally from a Russian-speaking family, Didusenko was immersed into a Ukrainian-language environment upon entering the Lyceum.

Veronika Didusenko (Ukrainian: Вероніка Дідусенко; born 12 July 1995) is a Ukrainian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Ukraine 2018. She was later stripped of her title and banned from competing in the Miss World pageant as she had been married at one point and had a five year old son.