Nastassja Isabella Bolívar Cifuentes (born October 24, 1988) is a Nicaraguan-American actress, tv host and beauty queen who won ''
Nuestra Belleza Latina 2011'' and was crowned
Miss Nicaragua 2013 and represented
Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous country in Central America aft ...
at
Miss Universe 2013.
Early life
Bolívar was born in
Miami
Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a populat ...
to a
Colombian father and a
Nicaraguan mother and speaks English, Spanish and French. When she auditioned for Nuestra Belleza Latina 2011 she was studying
fashion merchandising at Miami International University of Art and Design. However, with the possibility of appearing in many programs for a year when Univision offered the contract, she decided to venture into television production .
Pageantry
Nuestra Belleza Latina 2011
On May 22, 2011, Nastassja Bolivar from Nicaragua won the beauty pageant/reality show
Nuestra Belleza Latina 2011 on
Univision. After 12 weeks of competition, Nastassja won $250,000 in cash and prizes and a one-year contract with the Univision Network. She is the first (and so far only) winner who was born and raised in the continental United States.
Miss Nicaragua 2013
Nastassja Bolivar was crowned Miss Nicaragua 2013 at the 31st edition of Miss Nicaragua beauty contest. Outgoing titleholder Farah Eslaquit crowned Bolívar as Miss Nicaragua 2013 at the beauty contest that took place at the Ruben Dario National Theater on Saturday night of March 2, 2013. This win gave her the right to represent Nicaragua at Miss Universe 2013.
Miss Universe 2013

Bolivar represented Nicaragua at the
Miss Universe 2013 pageant on November 9, 2013, in
Moscow, Russia where she became the third Nicaraguan woman to place, eventually finishing in the Top 16. During the preliminary competition Nastassja won Best National Costume and was awarded a $5,000 Credit Card from
Russian Standard Bank.
After the contest, Bolívar had her crown taken away by director of the franchise, Karen Celebertti, for insubordination.
References
External links
Official Miss Nicaragua website
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1988 births
Living people
Miss Universe 2013 contestants
American people of Nicaraguan descent
American people of Colombian descent
Miss Nicaragua winners
Nicaraguan beauty pageant winners
Nicaraguan female models
Nuestra Belleza Latina winners