Shanira Blanco
| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Born |
Shanira Blanco Colón August 1, 1981 San Juan, Puerto Rico |
|---|---|
| Hair color | Brown |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Title(s) | Miss Amber World 2001 Miss Folklore World 2001 Miss Carolina Universe 2004 Miss Earth Puerto Rico 2004 |
| Major competition(s) |
Miss Amber World 2001 (Winner) Miss Folklore World 2001 (Winner) Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2004 (2nd Runner-Up) Miss Earth Puerto Rico 2004 (Winner) Miss Earth 2004 |
| Spouse | Augusto Ayala (m. 2014) |
Shanira Blanco Colón (born August 1, 1981) is a Puerto Rican TV Presenter and Model, Social Media Influencer and former national director of Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico and Miss Earth Puerto Rico.
Shanira Mariette Blanco Colón was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to a Puerto Rican mother, María Colón, and a Dominican father, Ángel Blanco. Shanira is the oldest of three children from that marriage.
Since she was a young, Shanira showed her discipline, always keeping her leadership and honors in school, which eventually helped her be Captain of her High School Volleyball Team, earned her a position in the "National Honor Society”, and was elected “Student of the Year” by the “Private Schools Puerto Rican Association” in 1999. Even though she always aspired to study in the mainland, up to the degree that she was admitted at Syracuse University in New York with an Honor’s Scholarship, she declined staying in the states, feeling her future was somewhere else.
When she was 19 years old, she started competing in different beauty pageants, which made her travel the world to places like Venezuela, France, Germany, Turkey and the Philippines among others, and won Miss Amber World 2001 and Miss Folklore World 2001.
Blanco represented Carolina municipality at Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2004 pageant, where she finished as 2nd Runner-Up to Alba Reyes.
Blanco represented Puerto Rico at the Miss Earth 2004. She won the Miss Leonardo award.
Blanco was the previous national director for the Miss World Puerto Rico, Miss Earth Puerto Rico, and Miss Grand International Puerto Rico franchises.
After marriage and becoming pregnant with her first born, Shanira decided to step down from directing these events to dedicate her time to her newborn son, Mateo.
After pageants, the doors to the world of television opened up for Shanira, receiving the opportunity from Puerto Rico’s producer Hector Marcano in 2005, to join and co-host with his team, the television show “Que Suerte” which was transmitted through the Univisión Puerto Rico Network. It is there were Shanira grows as a TV personality, obtaining the chance to collaborate in other TV Shows like “El Gordo y la Flaca" and "Objetivo Fama", both directed to the Puerto Rican audience as well as the Hispanic market in the United States. At the same time, this young woman received the “Paoli Award” for “Outstanding New TV Talent of the Year ”, was elected as “The Most Beautiful Face on TV” by the reader’s of Teve Guia Magazine and was hired by the Mirta de Perales beauty company as their Hispanic Market Spokesperson.She has been Mirta de Perales Spokesperson since 2005. After “Que Suerte”, her TV career continued, where she received an offer from Univision PR to host the show “Flashazo VIP”, one that she accepted and continued doing it till 2012.
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