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A Living Barbie with a Purpose: What You Don't Know About Miss Universe Philippines 2024 Chelsea Anne Manalo

The Bulakenya beauty, the first-ever half-black Filipina to represent the country, used to dream of becoming a car racer.

Chelsea Anne Manalo of Bulacan made herstory when she became the first Filipino-Black American to have been crowned Miss Universe Philippines 2024.The 24-year-old beauty queen, dubbed the "dark horse" in the pageant, caught the attention of Filipinos for ...

Notes & Essays

Are Pageants Still Relevant?

Let's make sense of the Pinoy pageant fandom.

Social media reactions and comments on the recently concluded Miss Universe Philippines prove yet again that the Filipino public's fascination with beauty pageants has remained high and very much alive. To be sure, not all Filipinos are into pageants. But it ...

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