Hil Hernández

Hil Yesenia Hernández Escobar (b. c. 1983 in Castro, Chile) is a Chilean journalist, model, environmentalist, and beauty queen from Chile. She won the international Miss Earth 2006 pageant becoming the first Chilean to win the coveted crown.

Personal life

Hernández was born in Castro, Chile on 1 December 1983. She spent her childhood years in the Chiloé Island, the second-largest island in South America. The youngest of three children, her father died when she was young. She was raised by her mother, Yorki Escobar.

Hernández studied tourism and took up modelling, then advanced her studies in Journalism. She once spent a month working as a model in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. After that, she lived in Santiago, the capital of Chile.

She enjoys outdoor recreations such as cycling, jogging, and volleyball to maintain her figure, but not fascinated with heavy machines in the gym. She admires Oprah Winfrey and Tyra Banks and intends to be a broadcast journalist or a talk show host.