Precious Lara Quigaman
Precious Lara San Agustin Quigaman-Alcaraz (born January 3, 1983) is a Filipino actress, multi-product endorser and beauty queen who won the Miss International 2005 beauty pageant held in Tokyo, Japan. She is the fourth Filipino to have won the crown, after Gemma Cruz in 1964, Aurora Pijuan in 1970, and Melanie Marquez in 1979. Prior to winning Miss International, Quigaman joined Binibining Pilipinas twice, first in 2001 and last in 2005. The latter ultimately earned her the title of Binibining Pilipinas International. Biography. Based in Bristol, United Kingdom, Quigaman is the eldest of four children  of Nelson Quigaman of Ligao City in the province of Albay and Princesita San Agustin, a registered nurse. She grew up in Biñan, Laguna, and eventually Bahrain, where her father worked. After five years, she returned to Biñan and finished high school at La Consolacion College. Before moving to Bahrain, she studied for a semester at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. In England, she attended South Gloucestershire and Stroud College, originally called Filton College where she studied Media Production and Communication. Quigaman got engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Marco Alcaraz in 2010 and got married in a civil  ceremony on January 1, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada. Got married again on July 8, 2012 in a Christian wedding ceremony that was held at the Hacienda Isabela in Tagaytay City. She gave birth to a seven-pound baby boy on November 10, 12:52 a.m. via cesarean section at the Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Alabang, Muntinlupa. Quigaman is a Born-again Christian and was criticized by netizens after several of her Instagram post were taken to oppose Pope Francis visiting the country.