Former Miss Argentina and Miss Puerto Rico Revealed They Just got Married

People were surprised when they initially heard that Miss Puerto Rico and Miss Argentina had secretly married. A hidden queer femme romance spawned by pageant culture? Miss Puerto Rico Fabiola Valentin and Miss Argentina Mariana Varela’s once-secret courtship is now public knowledge, as the year’s (or century’s) new power couple disclosed on Instagram that they had married on October 28, 2022.

10 The couple had dated for 2 years before tying the knot

Former Miss Argentina and former Miss Puerto Rico surprised and pleased fans when they announced their sudden wedding on Instagram. According to reports, Mariana Varela and Fabiola Valentin dated for two years before getting married.

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9 The two beauty queens met at the 2020 Miss Grand International competition

Mariana Varela and Fabiola Valentin met in Thailand during the 2020 Miss Grand International competition, where they represented Argentina and Puerto Rico, respectively. After finishing in the top ten of the pageant, the two beauty queens appeared to remain close on social media. What fans didn’t realize was that they were secretly dating the entire time.

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8 What’s Fabiola Valentin’s story?

Fabiola Valentin is a Camuy native from Puerto Rico. In August 2015, she triumphed over eleven other candidates to claim victory at La Concha A Renaissance Resort’s La Cara de IMAGEN competition in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After that, she entered the world of professional modeling. From 2017 to 2021, she attended college to earn a degree in journalism at San Juan’s Universidad del Sagrado Corazon.

Representing Camuy, she competed in Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2019 on June 13 at the Luis A. Ferré Fine Arts Center in San Juan against 27 other participants. To top it all off, Madison Anderson finished in second place. On December 2, 2020, she was formally named Miss Grand Puerto Rico 2020. As Miss Grand International 2020 for Puerto Rico, she faced off against 62 other contenders, including Mariana Valera of Argentina, at SHOW DC in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 27, 2021. The two of them finished in the top ten.

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