New Miss Universe Philippines Chelsea Manalo of Bulacan, with predecessor Michelle Marquez Dee. Image: screengrab from YouTube/Empire PH Newly crowned 2024 Miss Universe Philippines Chelsea Manalo has acknowledged that she has “entered the meme world” when photos of an interesting moment of her coronation spread online, showing her masterfully balancing the crown that was put on a precariously dangerous placement on her head. “Oo, na-balance ko siya (Yes, I was able to balance it), so it’s already enough to say that is what makes a queen.
You have to balance it,” the 24-year-old Bulacan lass said at her post-coronation media conference held at Belmont Hotel in Pasay City on May 24. “Well, the crown has a little bit of a weight, so when Michelle really put it on my head, because it’s the crowning moment, it’s the winning photo already, so I really didn’t feel that it was gonna fall because it was really on my head. So I thought it’s gonna be okay, until I turned on the side and it kinda slipped, then Ms.
Michelle Dee already fixed it. It was only a matter of a minute, inayos din naman niya (she did fix it). So don’t worry about it guys,” she explained.
INQUIRER.net also asked her about a social media post saying she almost quit the pageant. Director Rod Singh shared that when the team of pageant shoe provider Jojo Bragais tapped her for the brand’s Miss Universe Philippines campaign, Manalo intimated that she may have to leave the competition due to h.