Kinga Puhova is 22 years old and she is a professional model. She is also studying Fashion Product Development at Mod’Spe Paris Central Europe. Kinga was crowned as Miss Universe Slovakia 2023 during the Miss Slovensko pageant. She will be competing for the Miss Universe 2023 crown later this year in El Salvador.
Slovakia first participated at Miss Universe in 1994. Silvia Lakatosova was the first Slovak woman to compete in the pageant and made it as far as Top 6. However, she remains the only Slovak Miss Universe semifinalist till this day. Kinga Puhova hopes she will break her country’s drought this year.
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