The 69-year-old beauty competes for an international spot at Miss Universe Philippines 2024

On January 9, Miss Universe Philippines posted a list of honorable candidates for the 2024 contest. After just a few minutes, not only domestic beauty fans but even international audiences paid attention to one candidate. member with a personal profile reaching the age of 69.

Specifically, the Miss Universe Philippines organization said that this beauty's full name is Jocelyn Cubales. Coming to the world's largest beauty contest, she hopes to inspire courage and persistent effort to today's youth. In particular, at her late age, she has many valuable experiences during many years of diligently living, cultivating and developing herself. To her, these are the most wonderful things that she wishes to share with everyone.

As soon as information about this special contestant was posted, many beauty audiences in the Philippines showed extreme support. They believe that age or marital status is not a measure of a woman's true beauty. However, many conflicting opinions still appear. Because they have never seen a precedent of a contestant of a similar age participating in this arena before. So they are more or less worried that Jocelyn Cubales will not be "strong enough" to compete with young contestants if she really excels and wins an international spot.

The reason is that, from September 13, 2023, the Miss Universe organizing committee has introduced new regulations on contest age. Accordingly, from 2024, women of all ages can register to participate in Miss Universe.

"The Miss Universe Organizing Committee would like to announce that it will remove all age restrictions for the Miss Universe contest and other related contests. This change will apply starting in 2024 globally. From now on, women of all ages can compete for the Miss Universe crown," the announcement said.

Many audiences enthusiastically welcomed the new regulations and thought this was a necessary change for a long-standing beauty contest. However, a large part of the public believes that this change has lost the inherent nature and appeal of the prestigious beauty playground.

As soon as the age limit was canceled, the contest immediately welcomed a representative who is said to hold the record for the oldest age to participate in this beauty arena, which belongs to a Bulgarian representative at Miss Universe. 2023 held in El Salvador in November.

Alexandra Mehl is 39 years old and has been married. Previously, the beauty won runner-up at the Mrs deutschland - Miss Germany contest.

Alexandra Mehl is introduced as a biotechnology engineer with a hobby of bodybuilding. The beauty can speak English, Spanish, Bulgarian, and German. However, Alexandra Mehl's beauty is not appreciated, she is only 1.68 m tall, her appearance is not outstanding.

Alexandra Mehl's participation in Miss Universe 2023 at the age of 39 caused controversy on beauty forums.

The audience wondered because the Miss Universe organizers said that the rule to remove the age limit will apply from 2024, but Alexandra Mehl can still compete in Miss Universe 2023 even though she is 39 years old.

Previously, Miss Universe also announced that women who were married, had children, and transgender were allowed to compete. However, there are still many countries that keep traditional regulations.

It can be said that Miss Universe is a pioneering beauty contest in breaking the usual rules for a traditional beauty contest.

These drastic changes are said to be an effort by female billionaire Anne Jakrakutatip to regain sympathy from the public, especially the American audience, with the Miss Universe contest after many years of existence and development.

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