Olivia Culpo

Olivia Frances Culpo (born May 8, 1992) is an American model, actress and Internet celebrity. After winning the Miss Rhode Island USA competition, she went on to win Miss USA 2012, and then Miss Universe 2012. Early life and education Olivia Frances Culpo was born May 8, 1992 in Cranston, Rhode Island, to parents Susan and Peter Culpo. She is the middle child of five siblings. Her restaurateur father co-owns businesses around Boston. She was raised in the Edgewood neighborhood of Cranston, and is of Italian descent with some Irish ancestry from her mother's side. Culpo attended St. Mary Academy – Bay View, and, later, Boston University, but she did not graduate. She began studying the cello in second grade, and she has played in the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, the Rhode Island Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble, the Bay View Orchestra, and the Rhode Island All-State Orchestra. She attended the Brevard Music Center, in Brevard, North Carolina for two summers, and she has performed with the Boston Accompanietta. Career