1. In early September 2011, Olivia Culpo was selected as Miss Rhode Island USA, allowing her to become a delegate for the 2012 Miss USA Pageant in Las Vegas.
2. Olivia was born on May 8, 1990 in Cranston, RI (a small state on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean), the daughter of Peter and Susan Culpon, both musicians.
3. She graduated from St. Mary’s Bay View Academy with the highest honors in 2010.
4. In the second half of 2012, she won the national title of Miss USA as a dark horse candidate, when it was telecasted on NBC (first Rhode Island to do so in a 60-year history of competition). From the beginning, the 20-year-old Boston University sophomore had not been the top contender for the national crown. Meanwhile, I blame the election for a wave of explosive reactions in the hometown of Cranston (RI).
5. After her victory as Miss USA 2012, she had a series of meetings with Leila Lopes, long serving Miss Universe Angola, in the States…
6. On December 19, 2012, Olivia, wearing a red dress and sleeves, led America to Miss Universe by defeating Phrygia, the Philippines (the world’s most underprivileged nation) and Venezuela (Hugo Chávez’s. The country has more trophies per head than another country on the planet won). After not being the favorite in the beauty pageant, she ended up winning the world trophy. A few days before the finals, Gabriela Rubi, a well-known astrologer in the Hispanic community, predicted that Guilpo would not make it to the top 10. Curiously, three years earlier, her partner Rima Fakih — the first Miss USA of Arab heritage — could not enter the top 16 (in no one but it was a favorite name). Unexpected losses due to United States...
7. The election of Miss Universe Olivia Culpo was seen by an estimated 1 billion viewers worldwide on TV and online, an event that included a significant number of delegates from Third World and former Communist countries such as Croatia. Lithuania and Slovakia. Meanwhile, the NBC telecast was one of the top television programs in the United States on December 19, 2012.
8. The Jennifer López-type looking, cello-playing brunette was named “the most beautiful girl in the world” by Planet Hollywood Casino in Las Vegas.
9. She, described as a “cellist-nerd”, succeeded Leila Lopes of Angola (South Africa), last year’s winner.
10. Although the gowns slipped slightly during the evening competition, a panel of 10 judges, including Nigel Baker (one of the most famous photographers of the genre), selected Miss Culpo as the winner.
11. At the finals of the international show, she was asked to name one thing she would never do again, a question posed by just model Ximena Navarrete. He said, “I read about my siblings growing up.”
12. After Culpo won in December, RI became the 7th US state to receive the award — Over the past half century, only six US states have done so: Las Vegas< /a > 2012, the breast cancer campaign is in its own country.
14.Culpo was elected as the first MU in December.
15. She is the 61st winner in the history of MU, a Latin American-dominated competition since July 1957, after it was created by the New York City-based organization.
16. She competed with women from 88 countries and territories, from the Arabic-speaking Lebanese and small Pacific island of Guam to the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia and Dutch-held Aruba.
17. Olivia was the only woman in US history to have been Miss USA and a musician.
18. Many icons such as Joe DiMaggio (recorded 56 consecutive games at safety, 1941), Frankie Valli (legendary player of such hits as “December, 1963 — Oh What a Night”…), and Geraldine Ferraro (the first American woman to be nominated by a major political party for vice president in 1984), Olivia Culpo is of Italian immigrant descent. However, she is “the most famous Rhode Islander of Italian heritage after John Shepherd, who was the first governor of Italy -American and senator (who has long dominated Rhode Island politics).
19. She who stands 1.66m tall/ 5 feet inches — was considered narrow to win beauty spectacular. Nevertheless, Olivia became the shortest Miss World title of the twenty-first century.
20. Rhode Island (“Little Rhody”), the birthplace and childhood home of the new Miss Universe 2012, is America’s smallest state (1,231 sq mi.).
21.She is the fourth origin of the Misses of the Italian university. Back in the sixties, the world tournament was sought by Argentina runway model Norma Beatriz Nolan, a woman who is together. the descent of Italy. Two decades later, in May 1987, Cecilia Bolocco Chile, whose family is Chilean-Italian, was crowned Miss Universe in South Asia. Recently, Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela won in Nha Trang City in 2008 in Vietnam.
22. One of Olivia’s goals is to work in the entertainment industry, as a famous TV personality or star in the film industry…
23. Other deep interests of Miss Universe today are movies, souvenirs and concerts…
24. Like the black beauty of Trinidad and Tobago, Wendy Fitzwilliam, who was Miss Universe in the late 1990s, Olivia’s role model is Audrey Hepburn, who was a leading lady in Hollywood and at the same time an author in support of UNICEF, a world organization that provides aid programs for children and mothers in the Third World.
25. At the 2012 show, the 1.66-m-tall Rhode Islander made history when he placed first in the world tournament, heavily beating the Philippines’ Janine Mari Tugonon (whose fans and citizens and women met “exploded anger with the law” ). In the course of the Miss USA beauty pageant, they also defeated other contestants such as Karina González, South Africa’s Melinda Bam, and Venezuela’s Irene Esser Quintero.
26. Olivia Rhode Island is proud to say that she has a cello next to France Yo-Yo Ma, a famous classical musician.
27. She was the first Rhode Islander to bring home the Miss Universe tiara. No Rhode Islander has ever won a major world title show.
28. Olivia was the first MU from America chosen by the jury as a native of Rhode Island. Claudia Iordanis, the artist of his country partner, from beauty queen in the late 1990s, was a telecast judge in the finals. .
29. Olivia is the first Miss Universe with a professional musical career, which is very unusual for Miss Universe of her time…
30. Historically, she is the eighth American to win the Miss Universe trophy, contested by businessman Donald Trump and owned by NBC.
31.Aside from Grazia Maria Pinto (Italy entrant in Las Vegas 2012), born in Rhode Island. The beauty was one of two women of Italian descent, along with Miss Dominican Republic and Miss New Zealand…
32.Olivia and her colleague Sung-hye Lee, who had left South Korea, were the only two delegates for the love of playing the cello in Las Vegas 2012…
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