Back in 1966, the entire Yugoslavia was talking about the Yugoslav women who took the title of one of the most beautiful women at the Miss of the World pageant in London. That woman was a beautiful girl from Dubrovnik, Nikica Marinović, who won the sensational second place and became the first runner up of the Indian Reita Faria at this competition. Marinović was the first representative of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Nikica ended up on the pageant accidentally. The editor-in-chief of one girl’s newspaper was not satisfied with the applicants and decided to look for anonymous girls.
Nikica’s conservative parents hardly let her compete, and precisely Nikica left behind all other beautiful girls from Yugoslavia, and then all the beautiful girls from around the world as well.
After the triumph on the pageant, Nikica moved to Belgrade. Rumors had it that she rejected the famous film producer Dino de Laurentis, who offered her a fulfillment of the Hollywood dream, by explaining him that she has no talent for acting.
Her face was on the covers of numerous magazines years after the pageant, she was giving fashion and beauty advice, and seduced everyone with her beauty, smile and modesty.
However, a writer and director Vuk Vučo from Belgrade won her heart. They had a son, Đorđe.
The marriage lasted for less than five years, and after they got divorced she was again a target for many suitors. The next time, Nikica married the famous director Zdravko Šotra, with whom she had a son Marko. This marriage lasted for a little longer, but that love also ended, in 1980.
Nikica led a boutique in Knez Mihajlova Street and many people visited the boutique just to see her. And suddenly, every trace of her was lost. People started talking that she is dealing with depression and that she is visiting mental institutions. She lived far from the eyes of the public, she stopped contacting her closest friends. In November 2008, she was on the covers again, this time for the most frightful reason. Nikica took a lethal dose of tranquillizers, not leaving a suicide note or a message which could tell the people why she killed herself. She was 61 years old.
(Source: avaz.ba)
