Diana Silva (model)

Diana Silva (model)
Diana Carolina Silva Francisco (born 31 October 1997) is a Venezuelan model, environmental activist, cabin crew and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Venezuela 2022.
She was previously crowned Miss Earth Venezuela 2018. She represented Venezuela at the Miss Earth 2018 pageant at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay, Philippines and placed in the top 8.
Beginnings and personal life
Diana Carolina Silva Francisco was born on 31st October 1997 in Caracas, Venezuela. She is the daughter of Ana Lina Francisco Mendes and Luis Alberto Silva Cervantes and has an older brother.
Her childhood was marked by health problems; at the age of six, she was hospitalized in the oncology department of the Doctor Luis Razetti Hospital in Caracas.
Silva began modeling at the age of 13. Also in her beginnings, she held different types of jobs, such as a babysitter, secretary, and production assistant in a ceramics company.
She is a Passenger Cabin Crew graduated from the Caracas Air aeronautical instruction center. She is also an advertising student.
Her hobbies include dancing, playing the guitar, singing, photography, graphic design. She also likes acting and has participated in several plays at her university.
She has been part of different social activities with various non-profit organizations, the most prominent being her ecological work that she has been carrying out since 2018, in the Caracas botanical garden, with the aim of recovering green areas, collecting organic waste and plant plants, thus contributing to rehabilitate the vegetal lung of the Venezuelan capital.
Pageants
Miss Earth Venezuela 2018
Silva entered and won Miss Earth Venezuela, which took place at the Chacao Municipal Theater in the city of Caracas, Venezuela; on 12the August 2018, representing the state of Lara. This win allowed her to represent Venezuela at Miss Earth 2018.
Miss Earth 2018
Silva represented Venezuela at Miss Earth 2018, in Boracay, Aclán, Philippines where she was placed in the top eight finalists. During the event, Silva suffered a blackout that prevented her from continuing to participate in the contest held in the Philippines. In a statement by Prince Julio César (president of Miss Earth Venezuela), he reported that Silva was not reacting, and the doctors, when taking her blood pressure reported it between eight and nine, after several tests she was put on oxygen. "When she passed out, she suffered a blow to the cheekbone," he said.
Miss Venezuela 2022
Silva entered and won Miss Venezuela 2022, representing the Capital District, on 16th November 2022 at Poliedro de Caracas Arena. During her reign, she continued to volunteer with the social program of the Miss Venezuela organization "Yo Sueño yo puedo ("I dream, I can") in alliance with various non-profit associations, where she has given workshops on self-esteem and gender violence to 25 girls of the Cota 905 community, located in Caracas.
Miss Universe 2023
She will represent Venezuela in Miss Universe 2023, in El Salvador, on the 18th November 2023.
References
External links
Miss Earth Official Website
Miss Earth Venezuela Official Website
1997 births
Living people
Venezuelan beauty pageant winners
Miss Earth 2018 contestants
Miss Universe 2023 contestants
Models from Caracas