A Filipina first made it to the Miss Universe winning circle when Lalaine Bennett was third runner-up to Ieda Maria Vargas of Brazil in 1963.
The previous year, Josephine Estrada was the country’s representative to the pageant, and there were no Filipinas competing in the world’s prestigious beauty pageant in 1960 and 1961, won by Linda Bement of USA and Marlence Schmidt of Germany, respectively.
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