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show Nuestra Belleza Latina on 23 May 2010.

Early life and pageantry

Gámez was born in

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, and participated in the national Nuestra Belleza México contest. The eighteen-year-old represented the state of Sonora in the

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edition of that event. A few years later, Gámez auditioned for

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in Los Angeles, and was selected to participate in that reality show. After weeks of competition and eliminations, she won the grand prize of US$250,000, a contract with Univision and the title "Nuestra Belleza Latina 2010", making her the second Mexican woman to obtain the title, after Alejandra Espinoza in

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. Alejandra, Ana Patricia, and Francisca Lachapel are currently the only winners of Nuestra Belleza Latina to never be in the Bottom 2 or 3. She also won the ''50 Mas Bellos'' challenge and was featured among ''

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'' magazine's 50 most beautiful people of 2010.

Career and personal life

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, since September 2019. Gámez worked as an entertainment correspondent for Univision's ''

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From 2009 to 2013, Ana Patricia was married to Fernando González. In 2013, she became engaged to Luis Carlos Martínez, the brother of her Despierta América co-host Karla Martínez. The couple married in May 2014 and the following year on May 5, 2015, welcomed a girl named Giulietta Martínez.

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