Alba Giselle Reyes Santos (born June 15, 1981) is a Puerto Rican actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of

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in which later on she placed 2nd Runner-Up at the

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pageant, and won the award of Miss Photogenic. She is known for being the first woman with noticeably mixed (African and Indigenous) features to represent Puerto Rico at Miss Universe, different from past titleholders who all have distinct European features. She obtained a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from the

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in 2011, although she never became a licensed lawyer. In 2013, Reyes was a contestant on

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competition television series '' Ready for Love'', in which she competed for the attention of Ernesto Arguello where she finished as runner-up to

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, whom she had competed against in

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