Karin Cecilia Ontiveros Meza (born February 5, 1988) is a Mexican television host, model, sportscaster and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned

Nuestra Belleza México 2010 The 17th annual Nuestra Belleza México pageant, was held at the Auditorio Parque Las Maravillas in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico on September 25, 2010. The State of Jalisco, won for the third consecutive year with Karin Ontiveros, who later compete ...

and represented Mexico at

Miss Universe 2011 Miss Universe 2011 was the 60th Miss Universe pageant, held at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011. At the end of the event, Ximena Navarrete of Mexico crowned Leila Lopes of Angola as Miss Universe 2011. It is the ...

.Nuestra Reinas - Karin Ontiveros
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Pageantry

Ontiveros was crowned

Nuestra Belleza Jalisco Mexicana Universal Jalisco is a pageant in Jalisco, Mexico, that selects that state's representative for the national Mexicana Universal pageant. Jalisco is considered one of the strongest states in Mexican pageantry, as they are almost always ...

the night of July 22, 2010, and subsequently represented her state in the national competition, held in

Saltillo Saltillo () is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila and is also the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. Mexico City, Monterrey, and Saltillo are all connected by a major railroad and highwa ...

Coahuila Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico. Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...

, where she competed against thirty young women from all over the country. Ontiveros became the third consecutive

Nuestra Belleza México Mexicana Universal is a national beauty pageant in Mexico held annually since 2018, replacing the former pageant, Nuestra Belleza México, held since 1994. Currently, the pageant is responsible for selecting the country’s delegates to Miss U ...

winner from Jalisco on September 25, 2010, and the fourth in the pageant's history. She was crowned by the outgoing national titleholder, and reigning

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Ximena Navarrete Jimena "Ximena" Navarrete Rosete (born February 22, 1988) is a Mexican actress, TV host, model and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 2010. She was previously named as Nuestra Belleza México 2009. She is the second Miss Universe from Mexico. ...

. Ontiveros participated in

pageant, but she was unplaced. After arriving in her home country,

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she announced that she would be representing her national soccer team during the

2011 Pan American Games The 2011 Pan American Games, officially the XVI Pan American Games, was an international multi-sport event that was held from October 14–30, 2011, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Some events were held in the nearby cities of Ciudad Guzmán, ...

inauguration. Two months after competing in the Miss Universe 2011 pageant Ontiveros is now pursuing a modeling career with Hollywood Model Management in

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ESPN

In 2013 Ontiveros began appearing on

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and

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on various programs and segments.Karin Ontiveros, un 'ángel' a cuadro
/ref> Ontiveros appeared along Juan Pablo Fernández in the morning show named '' Toque Inicial'' which airs weekday mornings on

. Ontiveros hosted the afternoon edition of ESPN's popular show ''Fútbol Picante'' which airs on both

and ESPN Latin America weekday afternoons. Ontiveros did a sports news brief called ''SportCenter Ahora'' multiple times a day, the segments air between shows and during shows like ''Raza Deportiva'' and ''Jorge Ramos y su Banda''. Ontiveros occasionally filled in for Kary Correa as host on the show ''Los Capitanes'' which is also hosted by

José Ramón Fernández José Ramón Fernández Álvarez (November 4, 1923 – January 6, 2019) was a Cuban Communist leader who was a vice-president of the Council of Ministers. Pre-Revolution life Fernández Alvarez was born in Santiago de Cuba, where he studied h ...

. Ontiveros covered events such as the

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, the 2013 Abierto Mexicano,

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, the

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and

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matches. She quietly left the station in the Spring of 2015.

Personal life

The daughter of Raúl Ontiveros and Paula Meza, Karin Ontiveros was born in

Amatitán Amatitán is the head of a municipality in the Mexican state of Jalisco Jalisco (, , ; Nahuatl: Xalixco), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ; Nahuatl: Tlahtohcayotl Xalixco), is one o ...

Jalisco Jalisco (, , ; Nahuatl: Xalixco), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ; Nahuatl: Tlahtohcayotl Xalixco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal En ...

. She is an

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student at the

CUAAD University Centre of Art, Architecture and Design ( es, Centro Universitario de Arte, Arquitectura y Diseño), abbreviated as CUAAD, is a college located in Guadalajara, Mexico. It is the division of the University of Guadalajara where higher educ ...

University of Guadalajara The University of Guadalajara ( es, Universidad de Guadalajara) is a public higher education institution in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. The university has several high schools as well as graduate and undergraduate campuses, which are distr ...

, and has two brothers.Karin Ontiveros: "Quiero ser la tercera Miss Universo"
/ref> In 2015, Ontiveros married a man named Alvaro Aguilar.

References

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