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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1778818378632Composite 2 Slanted (1).jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Miss Universe Philippines 2019 Gazini Ganados in her intro video for MGI All Stars. <em>Miss Grand International/Instagram </em></span></span></span></div><p><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/pageants-beauty-queens/2026/3/13/gazini-ganados-returns-to-global-stage-joins-ph-bets-in-inaugural-mgi-all-stars-1131">Gazini Ganados</a> tapped into her Filipino-Palestinian heritage as she introduced herself as a candidate of the inaugural MGI All Stars pageant. </p><p>In a video released by Miss Grand International on Thursday, May 15, Ganados referred to herself as &quot;a woman of dual heritage,&quot; with &quot;two cultures [and] one heart that refused to be silenced.&quot;</p><p>&quot;From islands where the sun always returns, where strength is gentle and resilience is something you inherit before you understand it,&quot; she said. &quot;And from a land that lives in fragments and names echoed, memories carried, in roots that refuse to disappear.&quot;</p><p>&quot;I stand here as the meeting of the two worlds,&quot; the beauty queen declared. &quot;A woman not divided by heritage but empowered by it. That beauty is not just what we see but it is what we stand for. Not divided but defined, not unfinished but becoming.&quot; </p><p>&quot;I am not just a story to be told, I am a story unfolding.&quot;</p><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-3" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYUq89whY3O/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=762&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A3%2C%22os%22%3A7400209.299999952%2C%22ls%22%3A3343692%2C%22le%22%3A3343907%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="840" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-3" 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><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>Ganados is one of the Philippines&#x27; five delegates in MGI All Stars, which is open to any woman or trans woman who has joined an international beauty pageant. </p><p>This is different from the standard Miss Grand International, whose reigning queen is <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/pageants-beauty-queens/2026/5/14/after-india-reigning-miss-grand-emma-tiglao-to-fly-to-uk-czech-republic-1548">the Philippines&#x27; Emma Tiglao</a>.</p><p>Before competing in MGI All Stars, Ganados represented the Philippines in Miss Universe 2019, where she finished in the Top 20.</p><p>The MGI All Stars coronation night will be held on May 30 in Thailand.</p>

<p>Gazini Ganados tapped into her Filipino-Palestinian heritage as she introduced herself as a candidate of the inaugural MGI All Stars pageant.</p>

Gazini Ganados tapped into her Filipino-Palestinian heritage as she introduced herself as a candidate of the inaugural MGI All Stars pageant.

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Published May 15, 2026 12:14 PM PHT

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