On January 9, Miss Universe Philippines posted a list of candidates who announced their honors for the 2024 competition. Within minutes, not only domestic beauty fans but also international audiences noticed a candidate with a personal profile approaching 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 perseverance to today’s youth. Especially at her twilight years, she has gained valuable experience through many years of hard work, self-improvement and self-development. For her, these are the best things that she wishes to share with everyone.

As soon as the information about this special contestant was published, many beauty audiences in the Philippines expressed their support. They believe that age or marital status is not a measure of a woman’s true beauty. However, there are still many opposing opinions. Because they have never seen a precedent of a contestant of 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 the younger contestants if she really excels in winning an international competition.

The reason is that from September 13, 2023, the Miss Universe Organizing Committee has issued new regulations on the age of participation. 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 pageant and its related pageants. This change will be applied globally starting in 2024. 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 believed that this was a necessary change for a long-standing beauty contest. However, a large part of the public believed that this change would lose the inherent nature and appeal of the prestigious beauty contest.

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

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

Alexandra Mehl is introduced as a biotechnology engineer, with a hobby of bodybuilding. The beauty can speak English, Spanish, Bulgarian, German. However, Alexandra Mehl’s beauty is not highly 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 has caused controversy on beauty forums.

The audience wondered why the Miss Universe organizers said that the age limit will be removed from 2024, but Alexandra Mehl is still allowed to compete in Miss Universe 2023 even though she is 39 years old.

Previously, Miss Universe also announced that married women, women with children and transgender women can compete. However, many countries still maintain 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 billionaire Anne Jakrakutatip to regain public sympathy, especially from the American audience, for the Miss Universe contest after many years of existence and development.