In an interview with El Nacional, the recently elected Miss Dominican Republic says that she comes from a big family. She grew up with six siblings on her father’s side and three on her mother’s side. She says that her father’s great-grandfather, Antonio Castillo, was from the city of Cosenza in Calabria, Italy. She said that while the family was from Higuey, her family moved to Santiago for work reasons when she was 10. Her family has an atelier n Kimcas n in the city.
Her mother is Agueda Mota, her father is Antonio Castillo. She says she has had a boyfriend, Carlos Dominguez, for four years.
She is a professional pattern designer and graduated in Visual Merchandise from a technical university in Milan, Italy. She also works as a model and has modeled in Italy. She is now studying industrial dressmaking at Infotep. She praised the Infotep courses, saying that they were high quality and free if charge. She said she wants to develop her own brand and go international.
Read more in Spanish: http://elnacional.com.do/venimos-de-abajo-mi-familia-se-ha-hecho-con-mucho-trabajo-y-sacrificio/