Education
Jones had studied business administration before Mission Universe and also did post-graduate studies in industrial administration at the Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior in her native city of Mexicali, Baja California.
Jones had studied business administration before Mission Universe and also did post-graduate studies in industrial administration at the Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior in her native city of Mexicali, Baja California.
A few months later, on May 17, 1991 in Las Vegas, Nevada, she and 72 contestants competed for the title of Lupita became the clear favorite of the judges, entering the semifinals of the pageant in first place, the only delegate with an average score above 9. During the final telecast, Jones breezed through the competition, winning everything: swimsuit, interview and evening gown. As the indisputable leader, she dominated with her articulate answers the next two rounds of competition (the Top 6 judges" questions and the Top 3 final question), winning it all, the crown, the prizes and the prestigious title for her country.
In 1999, she decided that the contest would support an important program for ill-treated girls in the country through the Integral Family Development project
In 2000, Jones accepted an appointment as United Nations Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador and Face to Face Campaign Spokesperson for Mexico. Now she"s single and has one son with ex-husband Simón Charaf.
In 2015 Jones again emerged in the news. In response to negative comments on Mexicans by Donald Trump, part-owner of the Mission Universe organization, Jones endorsed withdrawal of the 2015 contestant from Mexico and urged a boycott of products associated with the 2015 pageant.
Representing the state of Baja California, Jones won the title of Señorita México (Mission Mexico) in September, 1990. After finishing her reign in 1992, she founded a company named Promocertamen and, in 1994, created Nuestra Belleza México, the Official Mexican Pageant responsible for choosing Mexico"s representatives to Mission Universe, Mission World and Mission International. After 13 years, she finally produced a winner at one of the 3 most well-known beauty pageants in the planet since 1960: Priscila Perales, Mission International 2007 and another one in 2009 with Anagabriela Espinoza, Mission International 2009. She had yet to produce a winner in the other two: Mission World and Mission Universe, even failing to place more than twice in each pageant during her first decade as director of her country"s beauty organization. Nonetheless, from 2004 to 2008, she sent several successful representatives to the Mission Universe and Mission World pageants, all placing consecutively as semifinalists or runners-up. Finally, in 2010, nineteen years after her Mission Universe win, a Mexican woman was crowned as Mission Universe 2010, Ximena Navarrete. She is yet to produce a winner in Mission World.
