Brigitta Callens (born September 28, 1980, Oudenaarde) was Miss Belgium 1999 and her country's representative to Miss World 1999. Brigitta Callens, Gitta in short, was born in 1980 in Oudenaarde, a tiny town known as the jewel of the Flemish Ardennes. She was a ballerina dancer for 8 years when she was a young girl. She spent her childhood in Oudenaarde and moved to Ghent, during her teens to study languages. She is has a model agency called Gitta, with a small team of models. In 2005, she created her own line of jewellery.