“Gorgeous!” This was how the reigning Miss Universe, Olivia Culpo of the United States, described Ariella Arida, the Philippines’ representative to the 2013 edition of the international pageant.
Olivia Culpo and Ara Arida (Instagram Photo)
The reigning Miss Universe 2012 from the United States of America, Miss Olivia Culpo recently met with the Philippines bet, Ariella Arida during an event at the National Gift Auctio at Crocus City Mall in Moscow, Russia.
The event was one of the pre-pageant activities prepared by the Miss Universe Organization which features the 86 official Miss Universe candidates and the 2012 titlist participating in the event.
During the event the 21-year-old beauty from Rhode Island USA met with Alaminos, Laguna-born beauty Miss Ara Arida and took some time to share a photo with Arida. Miss USA’s Olivia Culpo posted a photo with Ara Arida on image-sharing site, Instagram and captioned the photo with “the gorgeous Miss Philippines.”
The 24-year-old Ara Arida re-posted the photo on her official Instagram account and captioned their photo with the following message, “I’m so happy seeing this,” Arida said in the caption. “Thank you to the sweet, nice and very gorgeous Ms. Olivia!” Ara stated.
The Philippines representative is currently in Moscow competing against the most beautiful woman from around the world and hopes to surp(–foul word(s) removed–) the successes of the three previous Miss Philippines candidates – Venus Raj, Shamcey Supsup and Janine Tugonon – who all finished in the Miss Universe at the Top 5.