A representative of Brazil no Miss Universe 2024Pernambuco native Luana Cavalcante, 25, is one of the first married women and mother to participate in the competition, which will have its grand final held at the Arena Ciudad de México, in Mexico, on Saturday night (16), starting at 11pm (Brasília time).
Luana (who won the municipal, state and national stages) is the first mother and first married woman to.
She benefited from a , which now requires all its franchises to accept trans women, mothers, married women, divorced women and women of all ages.
to check out Luana Cavalcante’s journey to the Miss Universe stage this Saturday.
If she wins the pageant crown, Miss Brazil will break the country’s 56-year hiatus in the competition. Only two Brazilian women, to date, have managed to win Miss Universe, in 1963 and 1968 (see video below).
From this alone, the country has already achieved second place several times, including recently, in 2020.
*With information from Flávio Ismerin, from CNN in São Paulo
