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Gil's first experience of fame and recognition came via the "Nuestra Belleza Latina Show", a hit beauty pageant reality show on the Univision Network. She was the chosen winner of the show's third season. She was also selected as one of the top most beautiful people by the "Magazine People en Español". She has been called the international beauty queen Cuba has longed for in the past 50 years by her fans and admirers in Cuba due to the absence of any type of international beauty pageants on the Island country.