The Miss World Australia organisation cancelled the pageant for that year, due to the Miss World pageant being postponed for 3 months, and gave Houssami the title directly as she was the previous year's runner up.
[2] Houssami was born in the city of Sydney, initially lived in the Sydney suburb of Kemps Creek, and eventually moved to the riverside suburb of Georges Hall.
Her mother Alka is an Indian Hindu from Delhi and her father Ahmad is aLebanese Muslim[3] Houssami was a Liberal Studies student majoring in Psychology and English at the University of Sydney.
Houssami handed over the Miss World Australia crown on 4 April 2007.
[5] She appeared on the first series of the Australian version of The Apprentice, which began in September 2009.