Perla Beltran

Background

An industrial engineering alumni, Beltrán was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa and raised in Guamúchil from the age of 10. However, her mother convinced her to compete in a local contest for the first time in 2001, and she took home the title.

Career

Despite her admiration for beauty queens as a child, Beltrán never expected to take part in the pageant world. Prior to competing in Nuestra Belleza México, Beltrán participated in Mission Earth Mexico in 2007 and placed first runner-up as Mission 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 León on September 20.

She had previously placed among the top twelve in the Beach Beauty event.

In 2010, she was crowned as Mission 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.

Achievements

• She was named Nuestra Belleza Mundo México among thirty-two other contestants, gaining the right to compete in the 59th Mission World pageant held in Johannesburg, South Africa. As the official representative of her country to the 2009 Mission World pageant, Beltrán won the Mission World Top Model fast-track event, enabling her to automatically advance to the semifinals. Beltrán subsequently obtainted the title of Mission World Americas and placed first runner-up to, on December 12. Missosology.com named her Queen of the World Cup, an unofficial poll, not related to Fédération internationale de football association or Mission World, involving the 32 delegates from the countries playing in the 2010 Fédération internationale de football association World Cup. Many beauty pageant fans consider her to be the true winner and many comments refer to her as.