Hillarie Parungao

Career

Mission Asia Pacific World 2014

Parungao was appointed and represented the Philippines in Mission Asia Pacific World 2014 in Seoul, of Korea and placed 3rd runner-up. Mission Myanmar (May Myat Noe) was later dethroned and stripped of her title due to disagreement with MAPW organizers advancing Hillarie to 2nd runner-up

Mission World Philippines 2015

Mission World Philippines is the first national pageant Hillarie participated. Her 4 Princesses were: Marita Cassandra Naidas (1st), Mia Allyson Howell (2nd), Maria Vanessa Wright (3rd), and Emma Mary Tiglao (4th).

Mission World 2015

She makes it in Top 10 (with Vietnam in 11th spot via peoples vote and not by the board of judges)

Personal life

24-year-old Hillarie Parungao hails from Solano in Nueva Vizcaya.

This 5 ft 6” beauty works as a print model in Makati City and studied at the Trinity University of Asia then she transferred to Aldersgate College of Solano Nueva Vizcaya but she did no finish her Nursing course.She represented Philippines at the Mission Asia Pacific World 2014 pageant where she was crowned as third runner up. She runs a non-governmental organization called KATUWANG: Fight Against Child Mortality.

Achievements

• There were talks then that she should have been the rightful winner, but the representative from Myanmar took home the title and became the subject of ‘crown-stealing’ controversies months later. She was crowned Mission World Philippines 2015 at the Theater at Solaire on October 18, 2015. Hillarie who hails from Solano, Nueva Vizcaya but currently a resident of Makati succeeded last year"s winner Valerie Weigmann. Hillarie represented the Philippines in the Mission World pageant in Sanya, China on December 19, 2015. As Mission World Philippines, Parungao participated in the Mission World 2015 in China, prior to that she won the Multimedia Award during the finals night. During the Mission World Philippines 2015 finale she won four sub contest and five sponsor awards.