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Ana Patricia Gámez

Mexican beauty pageant contestant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ4750470 ↗
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Ana Patricia Gámez Montes (formerly González and Martínez; born July 26, 1987) is a Mexican beauty queen who won the fourth year of Univision's beauty contest/reality television show Nuestra Belleza Latina on 23 May 2010.

Early life and pageantry

Gámez was born in Navojoa, Sonora, and participated in the national Nuestra Belleza México contest. The eighteen-year-old represented the state of Sonora in the 2005 edition of that event.

A few years later, Gámez auditioned for Nuestra Belleza Latina 2010 in Los Angeles, and was selected to participate in that reality show. After weeks of competition and eliminations, she won the grand prize of US$250,000, a contract with Univision and the title "Nuestra Belleza Latina 2010", making her the second Mexican woman to obtain the title, after Alejandra Espinoza in 2007. Alejandra, Ana Patricia, and Francisca Lachapel are currently the only winners of Nuestra Belleza Latina to never be in the Bottom 2 or 3. She also won the 50 Mas Bellos challenge and was featured among People en Español magazine's 50 most beautiful people of 2010.

Career and personal life

From 2011 to 2019, Gámez worked as an entertainment correspondent for Univision's ¡Despierta América!. From 2019 to 2025, Gámez hosted Enamorándonos, alongside Chilean TV presenter Rafael Araneda. She is also part of MC2 Models.

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