Amanda Dudamel is a 24-year-old Venezuelan model who represented Venezuela in Miss Universe in 2022 and had an outstanding performance, but did not win the crown, since the representative of the United States. USA, R’Bonney Gabriel, was the winner and the daughter of the Venezuelan coach Rafael Dudamel Was in second place.
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Although her performance was highly praised and even several Latin American fans of the beauty pageant complained on social media that she deserved to be the winner, Her father initially did not ‘view favorably’ his daughter’s participation.
This is what Rafael Dudamel told it in an entertainment program in Colombia in which he told the story of how he received the news: “my daughter tells me ‘daddy, they called me from Miss Venezuela’ and I told him ‘you want to end my life. You went to study fashion design in Rome and all the effort that has been made for you to now go to Miss Venezuela, why are you going to lose focus?’ and I told him I didn’t agree”.
Immediately afterwards, in the same interview, he stated that he reconsidered his decision: “Ten days passed and he called me and told me if we could talk and he began to explain to me how his career could be boosted with the reign and I told him ‘I don’t want to carry this cross for the rest of my life, I will support you.‘”.
And so it was that with her father’s acceptance, Amanda began her career in the reign which she won and was chosen Miss Venezuela in 2021 and went to participate in Miss Universe the following year in which she was the first runner-up, below the winner.
The support of ‘Rafa’ was so great that once the verdict of the juries in the largest beauty pageant was known, he went up to the stage to hug his daughter, console her for the defeat and give her words of encouragement for the entire journey. to get to where he got.
At the moment, Amanda Dudamel is dedicated to Her scarf business, which is designed by her and distributed from her country of origin, also sells handbags designed by herself and has a personalized brand of coffee.
Her partner is businessman Daniel Roa Farías with whom he has a relationship of many years, since their romance began when he was 13 years old and she was 15, both were classmates at school and currently, they are even partners in the aforementioned coffee company.
