Classically trained ballet dancer Riyo Mori had dreams of dancing on Broadway, but her plans suddenly changed when, aged 21, she won the Miss Universe beauty pageant.
Mori was born on December 1986 in Shizuoka, Japan. Her mother is a dance instructor and Mori began dancing when she was four, soon showing she had inherited her mother's ability.
While her mother taught jazz dance, tap dance and modern dance, Mori chose ballet as her own medium, and when she was just 16, Mori moved to Canada to study at Quinte Ballet School of Canada. 
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