Valerie Huber

Early life and career beginnings

Valerie's childhood experiences is diverse as they moved in different places. As published in Miss Earth's website, Valerie was born in Vienna, Austria but they moved to Africa when she was 6 months old. She spent her first three years in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and four years in Kampala, Uganda. When she turned seven years old, they went back to Vienna. While in Vienna, she studied in a bilingual primary school and took part as one of the main cast in an Austrian TV series. Five years later, she and her family moved to Washington D.C..

Her diverse experiences during her childhood days taught her a lot of lessons in life. She says, "All in all, I could not say I am a typical Austrian woman. No. I am a woman of the earth. A mixture of Austrian, African and American culture."

Miss Earth Austria

Valerie joined in the Miss Earth Austria for 2014. She was included in the final six contestants that would compete for the title. She was able to beat other five contestants, thus, winning the crown for 2014. She succeeded Katia Wagner.

She considers her winning in Miss Earth Austria for 2014 as one of her memorable experiences in life.

Miss Earth 2014

By winning Miss Earth Austria, Valerie flew to the Philippines in November to compete with almost 100 other candidates to be Alyz Henrich's successor as Miss Earth.

At the conclusion of the pageant, she failed to enter the semifinal round. The Miss Earth 2014 title was won by Jamie Herrell of the Philippines.