Shanira Blanco

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Miss Folklore World 2001
Miss Carolina Universe 2004
Miss Earth Puerto Rico 2004 | nationalcompetition=Miss Amber World 2001
(Winner)
Miss Folklore World 2001
(Winner)
Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2004
(2nd Runner-Up)
Miss Earth Puerto Rico 2004
(Winner)
Miss Earth 2004 | birth_date= (1981-08-01) August 1, 1981 | birth_place= San Juan, Puerto Rico | height= | ethnicity = Puerto Rican and Dominican | eye_color= Brown | hair_color= Brown

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| children = {{|Mateo Ayala Blanco|2015}} }}

Shanira Blanco Colón (born August 1, 1981) is a Puerto Rican TV Presenter and Model, Social Media Influencer and former national director of Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico and Miss Earth Puerto Rico.

Biography

Shanira Mariette Blanco Colón was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to a Puerto Rican mother, María Colón, and a Dominican father, Ángel Blanco. Shanira is the oldest of three children from that marriage.

Early years

Since she was a young, Shanira showed her discipline, always keeping her leadership and honors in school, which eventually helped her be Captain of her High School Volleyball Team, earned her a position in the "National Honor Society”, and was elected “Student of the Year” by the “Private Schools Puerto Rican Association” in 1999. Even though she always aspired to study in the mainland, up to the degree that she was admitted at Syracuse University in New York with an Honor’s Scholarship, she declined staying in the states, feeling her future was somewhere else.

Beauty Pageants

When she was 19 years old, she started competing in different beauty pageants, which made her travel the world to places like Venezuela, France, Germany, Turkey and the Philippines among others, and won Miss Amber World 2001 and Miss Folklore World 2001.

Television career

After pageants, the doors to the world of television opened up for Shanira, receiving the opportunity from Puerto Rico’s producer Hector Marcano in 2005, to join and co-host with his team, the television show “Que Suerte” which was transmitted through the Univisión Puerto Rico Network. It is there were Shanira grows as a TV personality, obtaining the chance to collaborate in other TV Shows like “El Gordo y la Flaca" and "Objetivo Fama", both directed to the Puerto Rican audience as well as the Hispanic market in the United States. At the same time, this young woman received the “Paoli Award” for “Outstanding New TV Talent of the Year ”, was elected as “The Most Beautiful Face on TV” by the readers of Teve Guia Magazine and was hired by the Mirta de Perales beauty company as their Hispanic Market Spokesperson.She has been Mirta de Perales Spokesperson since 2005. After “Que Suerte”, her TV career continued, where she received an offer from Univision PR to host the show “Flashazo VIP”, one that she accepted and continued doing it till 2012.

After Flashazo VIP, Shanira continued to appear in Univision Puerto Rico shows like Tu Mañana, Tu Mediodia and Ruben & Co.

From 2015- 2016, Shanira left Univision to be part of Mega TV's Entertainment Show Paparazzi TV starring Chanty Vargas and herself.

2017, Univision Puerto Rico announced Shanira was returning to the network to be part of their new project " Despierta Puerto Rico".

Social Media and Other Facts

All these opportunities in the Television Industry and after acquiring a bachelor's degree in Marketing and a Master’s Degree in Business, made Shanira established her own modeling and finishing school, named “Actitud” in 2007, in which through their seminars, they teach their students that with the right attitude and plenty of confidence, anything in life can be achieved.

Currently, Shanira's Actitud Modeling Academy is the Top Modeling School in the region, which has prepared delegates to the Miss World Pageant such as Ivonne Orsini, currently WAPA TV Hosts, which placed in the semifinals in 2008 and Amanda Vilanova, which became Miss World Caribbean and 2nd Runner up in London in 2011. Also, Actitud trained Miss World Puerto Rico 2012 Janelee Chaparro , who placed as quarter finalist in Miss World 2012 and eventually represented Puerto Rico in Miss Grand International 2013 where she won the first edition of this event.

In 2013 Blanco married longtime boyfriend Augusto Ayala. They currently have a son named Mateo, born in 2015.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Shanira Blanco is currently one of Puerto Rico's Top Influencers on Social Media. With around 500,000 followers on Facebook alone, Shanira has worked in social media campaigns with clients like Walgreens, Mastercard, Cointreau, Ford, Kleenex, Campbells, Prego, Yaucono Coffee, 20th Century Fox, Maybelline, Pizza Hut, Dreamworks, Lancome, Mirta de Perales, Casera Foods and many more.

See also

• List of television presenters
• Miss Puerto Rico 2004
• Miss Earth 2004

References