Valerie Hernández

Valerie Hernández Matías (born July 19, 1993, in San Juan) is a Puerto Rican model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss International 2014 in Tokyo, Japan.

She is the second winner of the pageant from Puerto Rico after Laurie Simpson in 1987.

Hernández was crowned Miss Teen International in 2012, she was the fourth Puerto Rican to obtain this title.

Valerie competed in Miss International Puerto Rico 2014 where she finished as the first runner-up.

She later assumed the title after the original winner, Patricia Quiñones, resigned for personal reasons.