Eugenia Silva was born in Madrid, Spain on January 13, 1976. Her career started in 1992 when she won the Elite Magazine's Look of the Year contest at only 16 years of age, sharing fist prize with Nieve Alvarez.

Her modeling career has been in high gear ever since. Noted Spanish designer Oscar de la Renta nabbed her to represent his fragrance So. Soon Carolina Herrera, another Iberian giant, did the same, with Loewe following suit. These jobs allowed her to decide when, how, and for whom she would work.

After achieving solid success in European fashion, Eugenia enrolled in law school at the Colegio Universitario Cardenal Cisneros, part of Complutense University. While she doesn't plan on a career in law, she says she likes learning and proving to herself and others that she has a brain, an organ seldom used to its full potential in the modeling world.

With degree in hand, she moved to France, where she hit the catwalk regularly, sporting the latest cuts from such names as Carolina Herrera, Chanel, Christian Dior, Guy Laroche, Issey Miyake, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Givenchy. She then moved to New York to assume the dream job of many models, a Victoria's Secret girl.

And to show she has a dash of entrepreneurial savvy as well, she recently opened a boutique in Madrid where she sells the latest designs from Paris.

Naturally, a woman of her stature could only be seen with a man just as stylistically eminent. Eugenia dated Spanish model Enrique Palacios, with whom she did a sensual photo shoot in the Spanish GQ. She regrets that decision to expose such an intimate part of her life, and today she keeps her boyfriends a secret, making sure she dates no one famous.

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