Background
Blasini was born March 4, 1982, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and raised in Guayanilla.
Blasini was born March 4, 1982, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and raised in Guayanilla.
But Unplaced.
A thyroid cancer survivor, Blasini competed in the Mission Puerto Rico Universe pageant in 2005, representing San Juan, and reached the 4th Runner-up position. Two years later, she went on to compete at the Mission Puerto Rico Universe pageant yet again, representing her home town Guayanilla. She was crowned by Zuleyka Rivera, who held the Mission Puerto Rico Universe 2006 title before she was crowned Mission Universe 2006.
Uma then travelled to Mexico to compete at Mission Universe 2007.
She was the third blonde woman to represent Puerto Rico at Mission Universe after Ada Perkins in 1978, and Laurie Simpson in 1987. Blasini holds the record for the tallest Mission Puerto Rico at 6 ft 2 in (188 m).
British newspaper Daily Mirror published a controversial article by PHIL BOOTH named "Maria Putin: Everything you need to know about Vladimir Putin"s daughter as she flees Dutch home" (dated 25 July 2014) about the oldest daughter of Vladimir Putin and her secret life in Holland. The on-line version of that article can be found here: The article made quite a sensation and news-storm in Russian mass-media but no legal claim from Russian Federation to the newspaper was made.
The first photo in the article pretending to represent Maria Putina () but it is Uma Blasini.
She didn"t made any legal action against newspaper either.
This time she won the crown and became the new Mission Puerto Rico Universe 2007. She was unplaced at the pageant, which was won by Riyo Mori, Mission Japan. She also represented Puerto Rico at Mission Continente Americano 2007 in Ecuador, where she placed in the Top 6, and at the Mission Tourism Queen International 2007 in China where she won the Best Long Gown Award.