Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines bags the Miss Universe 2015
Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach was crowned “Miss Universe” at the 64-Miss Universe 2015 pageant held at Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Pia is an actress and model of German-Phillipine origin. She is Miss Phillipines 2015. She symolises the deadly combinaion of beauty with brains. Pia is a beauty-writer, chef and make-up artist.
Pia Wurzbach was born on 24 Sepember 1989 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. Her father is a German and mother is a Filipino. Pia has a younger sister. Pia was named in keeping with the Philippines’ tradition. Her middle name ‘Alonzo’ is her mother’s maiden name.
- Childhood & Early Career
Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach was born in Stuttgart, West Germany, on September 24, 1989 to a Filipino mother and a German father as the oldest child in the family. She has a younger sister. - Pia’s middle name Alonzo happens to be her mother’s maiden name. This is a Filipino tradition to use mother’s name as the middle name. However, it was originally a Spanish naming custom but many Filipinos follow that.
- The family moved to Iligan, Philippines, soon after Pia was born. After staying there for some time the family moved to Cagayan de Oro. However, being a half-German, she was learning three languages from her very early toddler years. Just as she started speaking, within a few years she learned English, Filipino and German. She speaks fluent Cebuano, English, and Tagalog, while she speaks basic German.
- As for her education, she started attending kindergarten at Kong Hua School and later attended Corpus Christi school. But her studies got heavily influenced negatively when she witnessed the separation of her parents. She was 9 years old then and seeing her family going down into a financial crisis, she decided to work herself to make the ends meet. She finished her Secondary Education at ABS-CBN Distance Learning Center in Quezon City, Metro Manila.
- She signed up with Star Magic Talent, one of the biggest talent agencies in Philippines and immediately started getting modelling and acting offers even before she became a teenager. She adopted the stage name Pia Romero and appeared in several films and TV series’ such as ‘K2BU,’ ‘ASAP,’ ‘Your Song,’ ‘Bora’ and ‘Sa Piling Mo.’ In addition, she also appeared in films such as ‘All About Love’ and ‘All My Life.’
- Even though she had a bright future in the entertainment field, she had a wide variety of interests. One of them was culinary arts. Just as she finished her secondary school education, she enrolled at the ‘Center for Asian Culinary Studies,’ in Metro Manila, Philippines. She also worked as a beauty writer, stylist and a makeup artist before she embarked into pageantry.
Wurtzbach is the third Miss Universe from the Philippines after Gloria Diaz in 1969, and Margarita Moran in 1973.
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