Ximena Huilipán is a Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an model

Model (person)

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 and actress of Mapuche

Mapuche

The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina. They constitute a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who shared a common social, religious and economic structure, as well as a common linguistic heritage. Their influence extended...

 descent.

At 14 years of age, Huilipán won the Elite Model Look Chile 2002

Elite Model Look Chile

Elite Model Look Chile is a yearly fashion modeling event held by Elite Model Chile Management since 1997. The winner of the title takes it for one year, taking part later in Elite Model Look international contest. The first runner-up goes to Elite Model Look Latino...

 contest. She was discovered by European fashion designer Oscar de la Renta

Oscar de la Renta

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 for whom she modeled after having won the Elite Model Look Chile 2002. During her early career she did also model for Carolina Herrera

Carolina Herrera (fashion designer)

Carolina Herrera Carolina Herrera Carolina Herrera (born María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño (born January 8, 1939) is a Venezuelan and naturalized American fashion designer and entrepreneur who founded her eponymous company in 1980.-Early life:...

 and did a minor role in Jorge Olguín

Jorge Olguín (director)

Jorge Olguín is a young Chilean director, a pioneer of the fantasy genre in Chile. He has made two films and the 2008 premiere a co-production Chilean-American "Descendents" title for Latin America as "Solos"...

's movie "Sangre eterna". Later she moved further into an actor career playing a role as Lautaro's wife in a historical movie about the Arauco War

Arauco War

The Arauco War was a conflict between colonial Spaniards and the Mapuche people in what is now the Araucanía and Biobío regions of modern Chile...

 between Spaniards and Mapuches. She has been called "the Mapuche model" several times in the written press, but does however not embody the stereotypical physical Mapuche characteristics.