The Spanish designer Elena Tablada She is seeking to represent Cuba in Miss Universe 2024, just when the Island is returning to the international pageant after several decades.
The ex of popular singer David Bisbal and the mother of his eldest daughter was born in Madrid to Cuban parents, and has always boasted of its ties to the land of its ancestors.
At 43 years old, she admits that she never thought that when she entered the pageant they would call her, since in addition to her age, she is “very outside the canons of this type of beauty pageant.”
“I wouldn’t even have imagined it, but my family from Miami, who has high hopes for me, encouraged me“, he revealed to the Fiesta program on the channel Telecinco.
The businesswoman also acknowledges that she does not meet the standards required by beauty pageants, “but they told me that those parameters had changed and that what they were looking for was a person who was Cuban, with a Cuban father and mother.”
Although she was not born in Cuba, she assures that she feels “very very Cuban” and that although her physique works against her, she has things to contribute, such as the life experience of being a mother of two daughters. “The years have been able to furnish my head,” she said.
Miss Universe Cuba will be held on September 15 in Miami. At the moment There are 95 shortlisted candidates who have already completed their virtual and in-person casting. In the end there should be 20 left.
Cuba participates again after 57 years of absence after the new owner of the contest, the Thai Anne Jakrajutatip, commented that she would like to visit the Island and left the door open for the Cubans to compete again in the contest.
“We want Cubans outside and inside the country to feel even more about their land, to respect and preserve it every day, and to identify with the real social causes of the city, of the country, under the standards of freedom and democracy. participatory,” announced the Miss Universe Cuba Instagram profile.
