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Shaina Magdayao describes life as ‘painfully beautiful’ as she turns 34

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Rhea Manila Santos

<div><span style="background-color:transparent">Shaina Magdayao summed up the whole experience a month later with a reflective post and a collective montage of her numerous travels this year, promoting her film <em>Essential Truths of the Lake</em>, with director Lav Diaz and co-star John Lloyd Cruz. </span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent">This. after she celebrated her birthday last November 6. </span></div><p>In her Instagram post last December 1, she wrote: “Stepping into another year of the unknown (with so much gratitude for <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/33/">#33</a> - my year of renewal) this time though, with so much f a i t h that everything works out in the end …..for my absolute best.&quot; </p><p>&quot;Honoring growth, life, and its lessons humbly.I am truly learning to welcome, embrace, and own my most honest, vulnerable yet authentic version of myself. I may have unleashed a superpower,&quot; she added. </p><p>&quot;To healing and breaking all at once. Hay buhay. You are painfully beautiful. Ang saya mo. Ang hirap mo. Ang ganda mo.Thank you, Lord. I love my silly little perfectly imperfect awesome life. Grazie mille, November.. This is 34 🌹 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/1106/">#1106</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sgm34/">#SGM34</a> I’m ready. 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This eventful festival, this humbling experience, this breathtaking view and my precious lakeside moments with our <a href="https://www.instagram.com/essentialtruthsofthelake/">@essentialtruthsofthelake</a> family.Grateful. Humbled. Inspired. I still have so much to learn. Salamat, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/filmfestlocarno/">@filmfestlocarno</a> at sa ang aming MAESTRO, L A V D I A Z 🙏🏻🎥”</p><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-15" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv8RTbxoAxn/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=506&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A15%2C%22os%22%3A1935851%2C%22ls%22%3A28640.599999904633%2C%22le%22%3A28726.700000047684%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="722" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-15" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-16" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cv-68Epo6H0/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=506&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A16%2C%22os%22%3A1936135.0999999046%2C%22ls%22%3A28640.599999904633%2C%22le%22%3A28726.700000047684%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="856" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-16" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><a href="https://push.abs-cbn.com/2023/10/12/shaina-magdayao-shuts-down-pregnancy-rumors-will-never-deny-if-i-were-1228"><strong>READ: Shaina Magdayao shuts down pregnancy rumors: ‘Will never deny if I were’</strong></a></div><p>The black and white film which also stars John Lloyd Cruz and Agot Isidro, </p><p>The story revolves around  Lt. Hermes Papauran, who continues his struggle to find a resolution to a 15-year-old case involving the disappearance of Esmeralda Stuart, an activist-artist known as “the Philippine Eagle,” who protested wearing a headdress and feathers. </p><p>The movie’s storyline is set around a volcanic ash-laden landscape and an impenetrable lake while faced with the reality of the situation in the country during Philippine President Duterte’s reign.Aq</p><p>Earlier this year, Shaina quashed pregnancy rumors by sharing a video clip of her drinking a can of beer.</p><p>“So… Been getting messages from family and friends for days now about some FAKE news that’s going around back home! My goodness, I am not pregnant, people. Will never deny if I were since I’m already of age noh! But nope, I ain’t preggers,&quot; she said.</p>

<p>Shaina Magdayao celebrates her 34th birthday in a reflective mood this year.</p>