Career Pageantry Īfter winning the 2012 Miss Rhode Island USA competition on the first pageant she entered, she went on to win the Miss USA pageant on June 3, 2012. She attended the Brevard Music Center, in Brevard, North Carolina for two summers, and she has performed with the Boston Accompanietta. 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. Mary Academy – Bay View, and, later, Boston University, but she did not graduate. She was raised in the Edgewood neighborhood of Cranston, and is of Italian descent with some Irish ancestry from her mother's side. Her restaurateur father co-owns businesses around Boston.
She is the middle child of five siblings.
Olivia Frances Culpo was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, to parents Susan and Peter Culpo. After winning the Miss Rhode Island USA competition, she went on to win Miss USA 2012, and then Miss Universe 2012. Olivia Frances Culpo (born May 8, 1992) is an American model, actress, influencer and beauty queen.