Szilvia Albuquerque Freire, born 23 September 1984 in Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

, Hungary

Hungary

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, is a model

Model (person)

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 and beauty pageant

Beauty contest

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 contestant. She is of mixed Hungarian and Portuguese

Portuguese people

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 heritage; her mother is Hungarian and her father was born in Mozambique

Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...

 to Portuguese parents.

Szilvia made her debut as a beauty pageant contestant in 2005, when she represented her father's home country, Mozambique, in Miss Globe International

Miss Globe International

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 2005 in Tirana

Tirana

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, Albania

Albania

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. Three years later she also won the national beauty pageant of Miss World Hungary

Miss World Hungary

Miss World Hungary is a national beauty contest for Miss World. The pageant under the management of The Magyarorszag Szepe Kft. started to choose three equal winners in 2008 to represent Hungary in Miss Universe, Miss Earth, and Miss World competitions under the name of The Queen.-History:*...

, and travelled to Johannesburg

Johannesburg

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, South Africa

South Africa

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 to represent Hungary in Miss World 2008

Miss World 2008

Miss World 2008, the 58th Miss World pageant was held at Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 13, 2008. Originally, the pageant was going to take place in Kiev, Ukraine, but because of the ongoing crisis between Georgia and Russia in neighboring South Ossetia, the...

. She did not place in Miss Globe International, however, she placed as a Top 4 finalist for the Beauty With A Purpose

Beauty With A Purpose

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 award at Miss World for her work with the NEM ADOM FEL Foundation, dedicated to the awareness that handicapped and disabled people are of value to our society, and to make these individuals feel accepted.

In addition to Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

, she speaks Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 and English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, plus a bit French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

. She has graduated with a degree in economics and also pursued communications.

External links

• Interview with Szilvia Freire (Missosology)