Ximena Navarrete

Ximena Navarrete tied the nuptial knot with Mexican businessman, Juan Carlos Valladares, in April 2017.

Jimena Navarrete Rosete was born on February 22, 1988, in Guadalajara, the capital and largest city of Jalisco in Mexico in a middle-class family of Carlos Navarrete and Rosete Riestra as their eldest child among two children.

Her father is by profession a dentist while her mother is a housewife. She was raised in Guadalajara with her younger sister, Mariana.

Before participating at the world beauty pageant, she attended the Valle de Atemajac University located in Zapopan, Mexico to study nutrition.

Ximena stepped into the world of modelling in her hometown when she was just sixteen years of age.

In 2009, she participated in the beauty pageant, ‘Nuestra Belleza Jalisco’ which selects the beauty queen of the state to represent it for the national beauty pageant in Mexico, ‘Nuestra Belleza México’. The pageant was locally coordinated by Lorena Vila. Held in Guadalajara on July 16, 2009, Ximena made her hometown proud by winning the ‘Nuestra Belleza Jalisco’ title.

The state title win led her to contest for the national title of ‘Nuestra Belleza México’ that year. The 16th edition of the beauty pageant that took place on September 20, 2009 at the Centro de Convenciones Yucatán Siglo XXI of Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, had 34 entrants eying for the title.

The pageant that was broadcast by Televisa saw the gorgeous Ximena leaving behind 33 other contestants to win the title and with this she created history for Jalisco that boasted of producing two back-to-back Nuestra Belleza México winners from the state, the other state representative being the outgoing titleholder Karla Carrillo. Jalisco became the second state after Nuevo Leon to achieve such feat

Among the other special awards given away during the 16th annual Nuestra Belleza México pageant, she also won the Academic Award and the Fuller Beauty Queen award.