Dumaguete Beauty Wins Miss Asia 2016 Crown

Kerala, India: Dumaguete beauty Trixia Maria Marana, 23, has recently bagged the Miss Asia 2016 crown in Kerala, India, besting 18 other contestants from the region.

Yauheniya Vasilyeva of Belarus and Ankita Kharat of India were her runners-up, reported The Standard.

Last year, the Philippines’ Alfe Marie Nathaniel Dagle Uy was the first runner-up in the Miss Asia beauty pageant. Danika Kapur of India won the title then, the report said.

In her Facebook post, Marana reportedly said her feat was “not a success but the fruit of how I rose above the trials.”

“For me it’s not reaching the mountaintop that makes you a success. It’s the climbing, it’s the falling, the slipping, the trying again,” Marana was quoted as saying.

“I personally have hit major peaks and the deepest valleys in coming here. We should think that the valleys need to be appreciated while climbing to the greatest heights,” she added.

Marina received from the Asian College of Science and Technology a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration majoring in Management. She currently works as an auto loan assistant, the report pointed out.

Before winning the Miss Asia crown, she also reportedly joined the Mutya ng Pilipinas in 2014 and won local titles including Miss Dumaguete 2009 and Miss Negros Oriental in 2015.

Miss Asia from the House of Pegasus in India is now on its second year of searching for “the most beautiful and talented women from the Asian and Eurasian region,” reported The Standard.

(Source: FilipinoTimes.ae)