Career
She was born in Quito, Realpe speaks Spanish and English. Estefanía, who stands 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) tall, competed as a representative of Pichincha, one of the 18 contestants in her country"s national beauty pageant, Mission Ecuador 2012, broadcast live on March 16, 2012 from Louisiana Libertad, where she was unplaced. Realpe was designed as Mission Earth Ecuador 2013 by the national director, José Hidalgo, on August 29, 2012, however, to enable her to compete in Mission Earth 2012, she was dethroned.