Aurora Pijuan
Filipino model
Aurora McKenney Pijuan (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈpɪhʊɐn]; born November 11, 1949) is a Filipino philanthropist, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss International 1970. She is the first wife of golfer and basketball coach Tommy Manotoc, who later married Imee Marcos of the Marcos family.
Biography
She comes from Bacolod and is a graduate of Saint Scholastica's College (batch 1967). A product of the 1970 Binibining Pilipinas beauty pageant, Aurora was sent to Osaka, Japan to compete, and eventually win, Miss International 1970. Her victory paved the Philippines to become the first country to win consecutively twice.
Pijuan went on to marry golfer and basketball coach Tommy Manotoc. The couple have two children, Mavis and Tomas Jr. ("TJ"). Manotoc obtained a divorce from Pijuan in the Dominican Republic and married Imee Marcos, daughter of then Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, on December 4, 1981.
In the May 1984 parliamentary election, she ran as an UNIDO candidate for the lone seat of Makati at the Regular Batasang Pambansa, but lost to administration (KBL) candidate Ruperto Gaite.
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