Silvana Suárez


Silvana Rosa Suárez Clarence is an Argentine model and beauty queen who won the Miss World 1978 contest, representing Argentina. The pageant was held in London, United Kingdom.
She became the second model from her country to win the title.

Biography

From the middle class, her parents were both artists and divorced when she was a teen. She lived then with her mother, a teacher of Fine Arts, and after finishing High School, studied Architecture. "Was my mom who insisted that I attend a beauty pageant. I won the Miss Sierras de Córdoba and later the Miss World", she said to Debe Leer in 2019.

Miss World 1978

At age 19, she beat 67 other contestants and was crowned Miss World 1978 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. "And then all the possibilities: I would live in London and would travel around the world", she said to Debe Leer.

Life after the pageants

To Debe Leer, in 2019 she said that after her reign, she traveled and worked as a model during a decade, visiting countries as Japan and Thailand. "I loved the adventure, but I felt lonely, because there were not all the technologies as today to speak with the family and friends".
In 1988 she married the businessman Julio Ramos and had two children, Julia and Augusto. The couple divorced years later and Silvana said to Debe Leer that he was very chauvinistic. "He wanted to control me and his patology got worse year after year".
She posed nude for Playboy in 1980.