Bárbara Palacios will always be remembered as Miss Universe 1986, the woman who, at 59, is now considered one of the most influential Latin American beauty queens, and who also survived the episodes of violence and abuse surrounding her with a dysfunctional family.
“I asked God to take me with you”: the testimony of Bárbara Palacios, Miss Universe 1986, who overcame domestic violence and at 59 is one of the most influential Latin American queens
Before her time in the beauty pageant world, she became a publicist and after winning the third universal crown for her country Venezuela, she married Víctor Manrique in 1988. Her two handsome and successful sons Víctor Tomás emerged from this union. and Diego Alfonso.
Who are the children of Bárbara Palacios?
The successful businesswoman, author, speaker and motivational speaker has two children, who are now 29 and 24 years old and despite their male gender, possess an incomparable beauty that they certainly inherited from their mother.
Víctor and Diego were born in Caracas, Venezuela but currently reside in the United States.
The eldest of them, Víctor Tomás, lives with his parents in Miami. Although she had already lived her life away from the warm home, she returned to her parents in Florida amid the pandemic.
This was a “plus” for the family, as Bárbara Palacios herself admitted in 2022 in an interview with Viviana Gibelli for her YouTube channel.
“At 28, he is a senior in a very important company, he is stolen from company to company every year. Aside from this job, he has his own company, you have businesses, he’s an impressive kid. The greatest thing about him is his heart and that he has God on his mind,” said the proud mom in last year’s conversation.
It is known through a March 29 Instagram post by Bárbara Palacios that his eldest son has a girlfriend, although there are no details on his identity and it is not known if there are any wedding plans.
A publication by People en Español describes him as a young man who keeps fit and likes to travel.
On Instagram he shares his photos, in which he stands out as a very handsome young man who loves to travel, and his pet Steve, with whom he poses in some publications.
His younger brother Diego Alfonso is known to be currently 24 years old and graduated from the University of Florida in 2021 and received a scholarship to pursue postgraduate law studies at a University of Chicago where he currently resides. “He’s 23 years old, but he’s been alive for 33 or 35 years,” Barbara said of her last child last year.
The youngest of the Manriques is more private with his private life and his Instagram profile is private. However, the entertainment medium states that like Víctor Tomás, he enjoys travelling, has been a missionary, is also a pet advocate and also plays the guitar.
The latter was evident in some photos shared by his own mother showing him playing this instrument.
In 2022, he married a young woman named Remi, a nursing graduate, at an event where Miss Universe was featured with a few videos on her Instagram account.
“I am so grateful to God for these wonderful moments of blessing that we are experiencing in our family,” Bárbara Palacios said in a post announcing the engagement of her youngest son, Venezuelan media Últimas Noticias reported. (AND)