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Aired (January 27, 2024): Ang dating biktima ng bullying na si Alexie May Caimoso Brooks, itinanghal na Miss Iloilo 2024! Ang kanyang kuwento ng tagumpay, panoorin sa video.
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00:00 If before, she was selling vegetables, now she's on the pageant stage.
00:07 The proud Ilonga is ready to go from Miss Iloilo to Miss Universe Philippines.
00:15 Colorful, noisy, and vibrant.
00:21 The festival 2024 that is currently being held in Iloilo is truly a blessing.
00:29 The warriors from different tribes will be on the stage.
00:34 Another thing to look forward to is the participation of the candidates in Miss Iloilo 2024.
00:43 But I heard that you are a Motoway Awarded family.
00:52 We are looking forward to it because it is the strongest pageant here in our country.
00:58 We have full faith in Alexie Mae and Emoto Brooks that she will win.
01:03 But what is really surprising, not only to the judges, but also to the audience,
01:12 the crowd favorite and the winner of Miss Iloilo 2024 is none other than Alexie Mae Cameo Brooks.
01:25 Number 9, Alexie Mae Brooks.
01:28 She is really talented and beautiful.
01:40 Many people are cheering for the candidate.
01:43 But aside from the corona, many people are also posting on social media.
01:48 Miss Iloilo 2024.
01:53 Alexie was able to get on stage with her grandmother.
01:59 Why?
02:02 Alexie was born in Iloilo, OFW in Lebanon by her mother.
02:14 While she did not recognize her father, a black American.
02:18 She was not shy, she was big to her grandfather and grandmother.
02:40 But because her parents are working abroad, she grew up looking for the care of her parents.
03:06 That's why Alexie is a grandmother's girl.
03:10 She was just a child when her grandmother, Basin, gave her a job in the vegetable farm.
03:18 In fact, she was the first one to start working in the vegetable farm.
03:25 She was helping her grandmother sell vegetables.
03:33 Ever since I was in grade school, we have a place in the supermarket.
03:37 And my grandmother has always been there.
03:39 We've actually been selling tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, and all those things.
03:44 Although she is happy in the market, when she comes to school, the scene is different.
03:50 Because Alexie experienced a lot of bullying.
03:54 Although she is happy in the market, when she comes to school, the scene is different.
04:00 Because Alexie experienced a lot of bullying.
04:04 The bullying is not just in words.
04:14 It reached physical abuse.
04:23 There were beatings, beatings, and beatings.
04:29 The words were okay though.
04:31 But then the physical abuse, knowing that some of them will actually punch me, or beat on me, or slap me, or throw stones at me.
04:37 Those were the things that is actually harder to face than just the words.
04:41 How did she overcome this?
04:43 I don't know. I've always been an optimistic kid.
04:45 I try to look for something better out of it.
04:48 And I keep telling myself that I'll have my turn one day.
04:50 Alexie didn't give up.
04:54 The bullying of her classmates will become a way for her to open up her opportunities in sports.
05:01 She got stronger and became an athlete.
05:13 High jump is not just a sport that you just run or you jump.
05:17 Nor it's a combination of both agility, strength, and in the same time flexibility.
05:23 The sport that should be just for defense, she loved it.
05:28 In fact, Alexie was chosen to be part of the Philippine National Team.
05:33 But Alexie is not only for sports, but also for pageants.
05:39 When I was 12 years old, I joined my first pageant, a local pageant.
05:43 It's in our barangay in Buga, and it started there.
05:46 This is where she started her dream of becoming a coroner.
05:49 And the person she was with in her dreams, was none other than her grandmother.
05:56 [Speaking Filipino]
06:18 That's why she gave her crown to her grandmother.
06:24 One thing that could make me go on my day or my life right now, it's hers.
06:28 Because I felt like this is my reciprocation to her for all the things that she's done to me.
06:32 So she's more than just someone important, she meant everything to me.
06:37 Grandma Basing is an all-out supporter of her grandchild when she won the entablado as a representative of Iloilo.
06:45 First of all, congratulations on winning and in the Iloilo.
06:50 And I know that you'll be doing your best in the competition for the nationals.
06:55 Just be yourself. All of us are looking forward to meeting you.
06:59 Congratulations again, and God bless you. Hope to see you soon.
07:03 We won't end this without seeing Alexie's signature walk.
07:09 But with a twist.
07:13 She'll be doing it here at the place where she was once entablado, the market.
07:20 Ladies and gentlemen, your Miss Iloilo 2024, Alexie Brooks.
07:26 The feeling is surreal.
07:29 It's like those, it's one of those moments that you just sit down there and it's not sinking in.
07:37 And you're sitting there and you're asking yourself, not even about I am happy or not, all of those things.
07:42 I was sitting there and I caught myself asking a question, do I deserve the crown?
07:46 And then looking back to the childhood that I've been through, the things that I've been through, I told myself, yeah, I deserve the crown.
07:53 And then I asked myself the next question.
07:55 I think it's really a matter of I am blessed to have it.
07:59 I am grateful. I am happy from the support of the people around me.
08:03 But in the same time, I'm very hungry and I want more. And I'm really willing to work for it.
08:09 The importance to the people who sometimes took advantage of you.
08:14 That is the real beauty queen.
08:18 [Music]
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