Grendel Alvarado is a Filipina fashion

Fashion

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 model

Model (person)

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 from Bacolod

Bacolod City

The City of Bacolod , is a highly urbanized midsize Philippine city. It is the capital of the Negros Occidental province. Having a total of 499,497 inhabitants as of August 1, 2007, it is the most populous city in the Western Visayas Region. It is currently ranked as the 17th most populous city in...

 who won the first cycle of Philippines' Next Top Model

Philippines' Next Top Model

Philippines’ Next Top Model was a Filipino reality competition broadcast by the Radio Philippines Network where a number of women competed for the title of the country's "next top model". The series was a local version of America's Next Top Model...

 a Philippine franchise of Tyra Banks top model search America's Next Top Model

America's Next Top Model

America's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry....

after making it to the finals with Rina Lorilla. Her prize was a Php

Philippine peso

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 150,000 contract, a modeling contract with Saga Events and modeling representation courtesy of Starz People, Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 and a six-page fashion editorial for Preview Magazine.

Top Model

Grendel is the eldest of the two children (her brother being Paolo Alvarado) of Robert and Aleth Alvarado of Bacolod City

Bacolod City

The City of Bacolod , is a highly urbanized midsize Philippine city. It is the capital of the Negros Occidental province. Having a total of 499,497 inhabitants as of August 1, 2007, it is the most populous city in the Western Visayas Region. It is currently ranked as the 17th most populous city in...

. Grendel is a third year nursing student at the University of St. La Salle

University of St. La Salle

The University of St. La Salle , located in La Salle Avenue, Bacolod City, Philippines, is a Catholic private university run by the De La Salle Brothers. Established in 1952 as La Salle College-Bacolod, it is the second oldest campus originally founded by the congregation in the country...

. She went to Manila

Manila

Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...

 in 2007 for the Top Model contest. She looks up to Gisele Bündchen

Gisele Bündchen

Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian fashion model, occasional film actress and goodwill ambassador for the UN Environment Programme.In the late 1990s, Bündchen became one of the first in a wave of Brazilian models to find success...

 as her favorite model because of her pretty face, great body, and graceful and glamorous poise.

Alvarado's prizes as the winner include a one-year deal with model agency Saga Events and Starz People HK, a contract of Jewelmer's Pearl Ambassador to the World, an international photo shoot, a six-page fashion feature in Preview

PREview

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 Magazine

Magazine

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(June 2007 issue), her first magazine shoot again for Preview (September 2007) and the most recent is for Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...

 Philippines (January 2008).

Currently Grendel is an in demand model in the Philippines from runway to editorial.

She was An Unofficial candidate to the 2011 Binibining Pilipinas

Binibining Pilipinas

Binibining Pilipinas is the organization responsible for sponsoring the annual national beauty pageant which selects representatives of the Philippines to Miss Universe and Miss International, among others.-History:...

pageant.

However, She Was Disqualified In that said Pageant Due to Alleged Issues.