24 years old Maria has done a specialized course in Intensive Therapy and is fluent in both English and Spanish languages. She is a nurse by profession and her favourite Miss World Brazil is Mariana Notarângelo. Maria wants to support the policies that work toward healthcare, focusing on people with special needs. If given a chance to go back to a time, Maria says she would… “I would go to the 1960s, with all its romantic ambiance. I think of some unique beauty clothes, dances, poetry of the songs and their melodies. I would go to Brasilia, newly created at the time, full of dreams and opportunities! It was a time when the Brazilian dreamed of a better life for themselves and their family.”