Three of the country’s most photographed women today—beauty queens Rabiya, Bea and Celeste—step into a new universe, as Renaissance photographer BJ Pascual captures them in a totally different light as Disney princesses wearing the latest ingenue-inspired makeup collection from BYS. It’s not exactly a demotion when queens turn into princesses…
![Half-Filipino, half-Italian pageant veteran Celeste Cortesi wins Miss Universe Philippines 2022](https://peopleasia.ph/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/MUPH-Top-5.jpg)
Speaking in Italian-accented English, the endearing 24-year old stunner charmed judges with her emphasis on the importance of family, which she relishes and credits to her Filipino and Italian roots. She also shared with the audience how she misses her Italy-based Filipino mother, whom she hasn’t seen in person for…
![Bea Luigi Gomez turns the tide in Francis Libiran’s crimson number](https://peopleasia.ph/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG_1274.jpg)
After days of staying under the radar in low-key and sometimes unconventional outfits that left not a few demanding pageant fans unhappy, the country’s Cebuana bet to Miss Universe made a splash in the crucial preliminary competition in both swimsuit and evening gown segments. The long wait is over! And…
![Bea Gomez, first openly lesbian Filipino beauty queen, wins Miss Universe Philippines 2021](https://peopleasia.ph/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/243457428_877177459576431_8289693020850279414_n.jpg)
By Alex Y. Vergara Is the universe ready for its first openly lesbian representative from the Philippines? Organizers and judges behind the recently concluded Miss Universe Philippines (MUP) 2021 think so, as they crowned 26-year-old Beatrice “Bea” Luigi Gomez as the new MUP. After months-long search, which culminated Thursday evening…