Astrid Carolina Herrera Irazábal (born June 23, 1963) is a Venezuelan actress and
beauty queen
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. She won the 1984
Miss World pageant, held in
London
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, United Kingdom, becoming the third woman from her country to win the title.
Biography
Astrid Carolina Herrera Irazábal was born on June 23, 1963, in
Yaracuy
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, Venezuela. She is the third daughter of David Herrera and Odelia Irazábal. She has three sisters and one brother.
Personal life
In 1988, she married the military man Edgar Ignacio Padrón Godoy. The couple divorced in 2001. In 2002, she married the Venezuelan baseball player
Tony Álvarez in the Mayor's Office of
Carrizal,
Miranda. The couple divorced in 2005. On June 5, 2014, she gave birth to her first child, a girl, whom she called Miranda Carolina Herrera Irazábal. In 2017, she underwent surgery for a tumor in the pituitary gland that turned out to be benign.
Pageantry
Miss World Venezuela
Herrera, who stands tall, competed in 1984 as
Miss Miranda in her country's national beauty pageant,
Miss Venezuela
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, obtaining the title of ''Miss World Venezuela''.
Miss World
As the official representative of her
country
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to the 1984
Miss World pageant held in
London
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, United Kingdom on November 15, 1984, she obtained the