Chelsea Manalo is quite ready to represent the Philippines in the upcoming Miss Universe 2024 in Mexico.
The beauty queen has been very busy training for the pageant – pasarela, photoshoots, doing interviews here and there and being part of fashion shows just like the recent Bench show where she walked for R’Bonney Gabriel’s collection.
She’s the first Filipino African American winner of Miss Universe Philippines, breaking the streak of Filipina beauty pageant winners who were either fair-skinned or Latina looking.
She’s currently being featured in Parcinq magazine’s New Beauty Issue and her face cards are just gorgeous.
Miss Universe 2024 is happening on November 14th (preliminaries and national costume show) and Nov. 16th (coronation) at the Arena CDMX in Mexico City