Michelle van Eimeren is a beauty queen

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 from Brisbane

Brisbane

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, Australia

Australia

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.

Van Eimeren represented Australia for the 1994 Miss Universe

Miss Universe

Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....

 pageant, which was held in Manila

Manila

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. She placed 11th overall.

After her Miss Universe stint, she starred in numerous Filipino movies. She married Filipino actor/singer Ogie Alcasid

Ogie Alcasid

Herminio Jhay Alcasid, Jr., more popularly known as Ogie "Eric Ordoñez" Alcasid , is a Filipino singer, songwriter, composer, television presenter, comedian, parodist, actor, and entrepreneur.-Recording career:...

 in 1996 and had two children with him. She also wrote a children's book

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 called, "Butterfly."

She is also a commercial

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 model

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 and product endorser.

She now lives in Australia with her two children, after her marriage to Alcasid was annulled in October 2007.

In November 2009, she married her fiancé Mark Murrow in Wollongong. Her former husband Ogie Alcasid and his girlfriend Regine Velasquez

Regine Velasquez

Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez , better known as Asia's Songbird, Regine Velasquez, is a Filipino singer, actress, record producer and TV host...

were among the guests.

Filmography

1. Isko (Adventures in Animasia) (1995)
2. Manolo en Michelle hapi together (1995), as Michelle the Mermaid
3. Syempre Ikaw Lang (Ang Syota Kong Imported), (1996)