Perla Beltrán
Birth name Perla Judith Beltrán Acosta
Birth date September 30, 1986
Birth place Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Hair color Black
Eye color Green/Gray
Title(s) Nuestra Belleza Mundo México 2008
Major competition(s) Nuestra Belleza México 2008
Miss World 2009 (1st runner-up)
(Miss World Americas)
(Miss World Top Model)
Biography
Perla Judith Beltrán Acosta is a Mexican model and beauty queen from the state of Sinaloa, and the first runner-up to Miss World 2009.
An industrial engineering alum, Beltrán was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa and raised in Guamúchil from the age of ten. Despite her admiration for beauty queens as a child, Beltrán never expected to take part in the peageant world. However, her mother led her to compete in a local contest for the first time in 2001, taking home the title.
Prior to competing in Nuestra Belleza México, Beltrán participated in Miss Earth Mexico in 2007 and placed first runner-up as Miss Air. A year later, 21-year-old Beltrán represented her native Sinaloa in her country's national pageant, Nuestra Belleza México 2008, held in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon on September 20.
She was named Nuestra Belleza Mundo México among thirty-two other contestants, gaining the right to compete in the 59th Miss World pageant held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Miss World 2009
As the official representative of her country to the 2009 Miss World pageant, Beltrán won the Miss World Top Model fast-track event, enabling her to automatically advance to the semifinals. She had previously placed among the top twelve in the Beach Beauty event. Beltrán subsequently obtainted the title of Miss World Americas and placed first runner-up to Miss World 2009, on December 12.
In 2010, she was crowned as Miss Grand Slam 2009 by Globalbeauties.com, named Sexiest in Americas and, placed in the Top 10 of the Face of the Year award and Top 5 Sexiest Woman Alive.
Missosology.com named her Queen of the World Cup, a unofficial, non-related to FIFA or Miss World poll involving the 32 delegates from the countries playing in the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.
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