Michelle Colon biography: 13 things about Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2021

Michelle Marie Colón Ramírez is a Puerto Rican model and beauty queen born and raised in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, United States. She is of Puerto Rican and Afro-Caribbean descent and she is 6’0″ tall.

Aside from modeling, Colon also enjoys singing, dancing, cheerleading and drawing. She is interested in fine arts.

It was Dominican designer Jorge Diep who gave Colon her first modeling opportunity. She went on to work with several Puerto Rican designers including Edzel Giovanni, Sonia Rivera, Heriberto Vazquéz, Rubén Dario and Rosa Elia and other international designers including Rosita Hurtado from Bolivia, Benito Santos from Mexico, Marisu Miranda from Spain, Gionni Straccia from Venezuela, Salome and Fernando Marín from Colombia and Jorge David, Giannina Azar and Carlos Moya from the Dominican Republic.

Colon is the founder of the C.A.R.E. Empowering Program. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. In July 2016, she walked the runway in the Dominican Republic wearing Diep’s designs.
2. In November 2016, she walked the runway at Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel and Casino in San Juan, Puerto Rico wearing Elia’s designs.
3. In March 2018, she was one of the runway models at the Caribbean Bridal Expo at the Centro de Convenciones de Puerto Rico in San Juan.
4. On April 7, 2018, she represented Bayamon at Miss Teen World Puerto Rico 2018 and competed against 27 other candidates at the Teatro Municipal de Cayey in Cayey, Puerto Rico. She ranked fifth and was crowned Miss Teen Americas Puerto Rico 2018.
5. On May 26, 2018, she represented Puerto Rico at Miss Teen Americas 2018, competed against 14 other candidates in San Salvador, El Salvador and won the title.
6. In December 2018, she visited Epcot, a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, United States.
7. On July 27, 2019, she crowned her successor Miss Teen Americas 2019 Camila Jimenez of the Dominican Republic in San Salvador.
8. In October 2019, she walked the runway at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico wearing designs by Herman Nadal and Kelvin Giovannie.
9. In February 2020, she and Miss Earth 2019 Nellys Pimentel of Puerto Rico walked the runway at the New York Fashion Week in New York, USA. She wore Giannina Azar designs. In May 2020, she read “El Silencio de Galileo,” an email epistolary novel by Luis López Nieves.
10. In May 2021, she met with Loiza mayor Julia Nazario Fuentes, who gave her a copy of a Rick Warren book.
11. On September 30, 2021, she represented Loiza at Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2021, competed against 25 other candidates at the Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center in San Juan and won the title. While holding the title, she was attending school as a biology and pre-medical student.
12. On December 12, 2021, she represented Puerto Rico at Miss Universe 2021 and competed against 79 other candidates in Eilat, Israel. She finished in the Top 10.
13. She was 22 years old when she crowned her successor Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2022 Ashley Cariño on August 11, 2022 at the Luis A. Ferré Fine Arts Center.

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