KUALA LUMPUR: Vanishaantini MM Pellayrameas, 27, an entrepreneur from Seremban, has been crowned Mrs Malaysia World 2023.
Vanishaantini, the wife of a dentist, won RM10,000 cash, a jewellery set worth RM25,000 and an all-expenses paid trip to represent Malaysia at the Mrs World contest in Las Vegas from January 14 to 21 next year.
Vanishaantini will compete with other participants from more than 60 countries at the Mrs World pageant, the first and oldest for married women in the world, said Datin Harveen Kaur, the national director of Mrs Malaysia World and managing director of Mrs Malaysia World Sdn Bhd.
At the Mrs Malaysia World 2023 pageant held here on Sunday (September 3), TV producer, presenter and singer Laxmi Baker, 44, from Ipoh took the first runner-up spot; while digital marketer Nerin Kaur, 31, from Kuala Lipis, Pahang, emerged as the second runner-up, as sports medicine doctor Dr Malini Karupiah, 44, from Ipoh, was named the third runner-up.
Mrs World 2022, Sargam Koushal of India, was also present at the event.
Harveen said this year marks the fifth anniversary of Mrs Malaysia World Sdn Bhd. The company was founded in 2018 by Datuk Dr Kattayat Mohandas, a renowned anaesthetist based in Kuala Lumpur. – Bernama
