Two beauty queens have announced they secretly married each other on Friday.
A joint Instagram post from Fabiola Valentin, formerly Miss Puerto Rico, and Mariana Valera, formerly Miss Argentina, revealed the pair had tied the knot.
The pair had kept their relationship secret after meeting at the 2020 Miss Grand International competition in Thailand.
In the post the happy couple said: “After deciding to keep our relationship private, we opened the doors to them on a special day 28/10/22.”
The post also featured a 30-second video of their relationship so far, including holidays, their proposal, engagement rings and culminating in showing the pair dressed in white outside the judicial centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
After the announcement, fellow beauty queens flooded the comments with support.
Former Miss America Abena Appiah, who won the Miss Grand International beauty pageant in 2020 where the couple met, congratulated them on their “beautiful union”.
Ms Valentin later shared a message in her Instagram stories expressing gratitude for the positive posts in response to their nuptials.
Writing in Spanish, she said: “How nice it is to read each message. Thank you all for your words and good wishes.”
