DUBAI: Miss Universe Bahrain Evlin Khalifa made an appearance in Thailand this week to show support for the launch of a line of Miss Universe-branded health conscious beverages.
The product line was launched by JKN Global Group, the owner of the Miss Universe Organisation.
The event was held at Icon Siam Mall in Bangkok, Thailand, and was attended by various beauty queens, including the current Miss Universe R'Bonney Gabriel, who is American, Miss Universe Thailand 2022 Anna Sueangam-iam, Miss Universe India 2022 Divita Rai.
“Sawasdee kha Bangkok! So excited to reunite with our @missuniverse and a dear friend @rbonneynola along with my MU sisters,” Khalifa posted on Instagram.
Born to a Bahraini father and a Russian mother, Abdullah-Khalifa declares herself to be an advocate for education and also seeks to raise awareness about anorexia, which she suffered from.
Abdullah-Khalifa says she was inspired by Russian model Oxana Fedorova, who won the Miss Universe title in 2002.
She was later inspired by Pia Wurtzbach, the Filipino beauty queen. “I remember how she looked beautiful, kind, innocent and at the same time very strong,” she previously told Arab News. “I wondered at that time why there weren’t Arab representatives at the competition.
“At that time, one of the conditions to participate in Miss Universe was to wear a bikini, which, we can say, is not allowed in our culture. That, I think, was the problem,” explained Abdullah-Khalifa.
