Now and Forever

The truetolife story of Miss Finland Armi Kuusela who was crowned Miss Universe in the first Miss Universe pageant held in 1952 In 1953 some nine months after she won the Miss Universe title Armi was invited by the Philippine International Fair Committee to crown that years Miss Philippines in the course of her stay she met Virgilio Hilario a Filipino businessman through a blind date in Baguio the two were eventually married in Tokyo that year Kuusela chose to relinquish her crown shortly before her reign ended as Miss Universe