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Cosmopolitan Philippines Executive Editor Ida Aldana caught up with our Women of Influence 2026 Creative Catalyst awardee and March 2026 cover star, Bela Padilla, on the pink carpet of our recognition dinner!
She spills on the difference between her first and latest Cosmo cover, her life as a Cosmo headline, and more.
Transcript
00:03Hey COSMO! Welcome to another episode of COSMO Convos with Ida.
00:08That's me. So I'm here today with Bella Padilla.
00:14We're at the Women of Influence recognition dinner. Yay! It's finally time!
00:19So, thank you studio audience. Okay, so since I wasn't there at your shoot but I heard great things,
00:27how was the experience? I think it was great because your whole team was amazing.
00:33Everyone brought their A-game. So I loved it. It's not my first COSMO cover but I remember the first
00:38one being just as fun.
00:40But obviously now I'm older. I've been through I guess more things in my life. Hopefully all of us have.
00:47And more learning. So I have in my head there's a clear vision of what COSMO is to me.
00:54Yeah. COSMO for me is fun. It's flirty. It's beautiful. It's confident. It's a woman that knows how to smile
01:02properly.
01:04It's not that cute smile that's kind of demure. But it's the full megawatt smile.
01:09So I guess any COSMO event or cover shoot is just that. It's the megawatt smile. You're being super happy.
01:16So she already answered my next question. What does it feel like to be a COSMO girl? Again.
01:24Again na lang. In 2026.
01:26Rewind the tape.
01:30So yeah like I said I've been through a lot more. My last cover was in 2017. So yeah 9
01:35years ago. Wow 9 is the number of completion.
01:38So yeah a lot of things have happened in my life. You know I lived abroad and back. I'm busy
01:43working again.
01:44And I guess doing this cover during Women's Month is extra special. Yeah. Because we only get one month a
01:52year. They get 11. So.
01:54Okay so if your life was a COSMO headline what would it be? Oh that's so hard. You know I
02:01was supposed to be asked this during the cover shoot.
02:05And I remember thinking of an answer to this and now it's gone. Something like Bella writes her own plot
02:12and endings. I love that.
02:14She writes her own story you guys. That's it for today's episode of COSMO Convos with Ada. See you at
02:21the next one.
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