PH’s Ahtisa Manalo in Top 10 of Miss Cosmo 2024
The candidates were announced after the Top 21 strutted across the stage for the swimsuit portion. Ahtisa sizzled in her metallic red two-piece and fire-printed cape.
Below is the complete list of the Top 10:
- Indonesia
- Zimbabwe
- Cambodia
- Thailand
- Dominican Republic
- USA
- Mexico
- Philippines
- Peru
- Vietnam
In a prerecorded video shown on screen after she was announced, Ahtisa said her life choices, including her access to good schools and opportunities, were “incredibly limited.”
“But despite those limitations, I took control of my own life. I joined my first pageant at ten years old, and joined fourteen more after that. I made pageantry my vessel for greater things and greater opportunities. Now, I have lived a lot of my dreams and I’m continuing to design my life the way I want to live it,” she said.
Ahtisa also previously won the “First Station” of the People’s Choice Award.