Marline Barberena (born May 24, 1987, in

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) is a Nicaraguan-American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Nicaragua 2014 and represented

Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the cou ...

Miss Universe 2014 Miss Universe 2014 was the 63rd Miss Universe pageant, held at the FIU Arena in Florida, United States on January 25, 2015. This was the first time in the history of the competition that the pageant was not during the year the title was awarded ...

Early life

Marline was raised in the

Little Havana Little Havana ( es, Pequeña Habana) is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. Home to many Cuban exiles, as well as many immigrants from Central and South America, Little Havana is named after Havana, the Capital (political), capita ...

sector of

. She later moved to

Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale () is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and largest city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth ...

. Marline holds an associate degree in Business Administration. Marline worked for Apple before pursuing her dream of beauty pageants.

Pageantry

Miss Nicaragua 2014

Marline represented Chichigalpa at ''Miss Nicaragua 2014'' where she was crowned as the winner, gaining the right to represent Nicaragua in the Miss Universe 2014 pageant. At the same time, the runners-up competed at Miss International 2014 and Miss Supranational 2014.Marline Barberena crowned Miss Universe Nicaragua 2014
/ref> She is the fourth winner to be born and raised outside of Nicaragua after her predecessor

Nastassja Bolívar Nastassja Isabella Bolívar Cifuentes (born October 24, 1988, in Miami) 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 at Miss Unive ...

, who was also born and raised primarily in

Nuestra Belleza Latina 2013

Marline competed at

Nuestra Belleza Latina 2013 ''Nuestra Belleza Latina 2013'' was the seventh season of ''Nuestra Belleza Latina'' and the seventh season to be aired on Univision. The season premiere was on March 10, 2013 at 8pm/7c and was aired every Sunday. The auditions were shown on the ...

and placed in the Top 24.

Miss Universe 2014

Marline represented

References

External links

Official Miss Nicaragua website
1987 births Living people Nicaraguan beauty pageant winners People from Miami Female models from Florida American people of Nicaraguan descent Miss Universe 2014 contestants 21st-century American women {{US-model-stub