Uzbek and Latvian beauties on centre stage as Millennium Universe queens

The Millennium Universe organisation teamed up with Women’s Auto World (WAW) to award the prestigious Millennium Universe Queen titles to three beautiful ladies in an exclusive crowning ceremony held at TAHB Automotive in Glenmarie, Shah Alam on Sep 28, 2020.

Millennium Universe founder Dato’ Reiss Tiara officially crowned Aydin Abduvalieva as Miss Uzbekistan Millennium Universe 2020 and Eva Zalcman as Mrs Latvia Millennium Universe 2020.

The glittering ceremony also saw socialite Nora Feroz from Penang being crowned as Mrs Millennium Universe 2020 Special Queen.

Aydin Abduvalieva, 23, who acquired her nickname Zoya, hails from Tashkent, Uzbekistan and is a BA (Hons) Business Management student at Binary University College in Puchong.

Eva Zalcman, who was born in Tukums, Latvia, is the owner and founder of Evergreen Talents Modeling Agency in Bukit Antarabangsa, Ampang Jaya.

A large crowd watched and applauded as the three beauties received their coveted crowns and titles from Reiss.

“With the uncertainty as most of the countries’ borders are still closed or restricted, the Covid-19 crisis would not allow the Millennium Universe pageant to take place. Many countries are still on hold to their selections such as Canada, US, India and the Philippines.

“I realized the situation and I will select the most suitable world contestants to represent their countries in preparing for the next world pageant when the World Health Organisation announces that it is safe to travel. And this is what today’s crowning ceremony is all about,” Reiss told Citizens Journal Malaysia (CJMY).

International contestants, including from Malaysia were supposed to compete for the Miss & Mrs Millennium Universe 2020 International pageant in Kuala Lumpur in May this year but due to Covid-19 lockdown and the resulting travel restrictions enforced in most countries, the Millennium Universe Organisation has decided to postpone the international finals of the pageant to next year 2021 when the situation allows.

A former beauty queen herself, Reiss successfully founded the Millennium Universe pageant and set her own rules in a new-school more focused on inner beauty and valuable social skills; and on celebrating well-rounded and exemplary women from around the world.

“Beauty queens with substance are not just with flawless faces and sexy bodies in the old school way. It was traditionally focused on the contestants’ physical attributes and they are not sufficient in our modern society. Today, it’s more inclusive than ever.

“As Millennium Universe pageant queens, we must possess the true sense of beauty with the qualities of good personality, intelligence, persistence, and the ability to motivate and inspire others, no matter in what circumstances and situations in life. This is the message that I want to voice out to all Millennium Universe beauty queens, ‘We are beautiful because we are strong; Life is not a bed of roses but we are definitely the beautiful roses in all conditions.” A sense of pride was obvious on Reiss’s face.

Having been involved in beauty pageants for a long time, from being a contestant, beauty queen to pageant national director, founder and organiser, and having a highly successful career, Reiss demands nothing but the best from her pageant queens.

“Millennium Universe is a women empowerment platform, and to me, women empowerment is for all ages. They are beautiful, sexy and brilliant and I want my pageant platform to enable these women of all ages around the globe to rise and achieve their full potential without impediment and without prejudice.”

“My motivation to all the beautiful ladies across the world is no matter what situation we are in, we as a quality beauty queen must never quit, to stay focus and be persistent. No matter how bad things are, there is always a rainbow after the rain,” she said.

The 2020 Millennium Universe local pageant was held at Emerald Resort Hotel in Desaru, Johor on November last year. In the keenly fought competition, it was Nur Haryanie Nadjwa who won the crown for Miss Malaysia Millennium Universe 2020 while Jacqueline Lee San San took the Mrs Malaysia Millennium Universe 2020 title.

Other coveted titles were competed for by participants in both the Miss and Mrs category, and these titles included Miss/Mrs Tourism Malaysia Millennium Universe 2020, Miss/Mrs Asia Pacific Millennium Universe 2020, Miss/Mrs Nusantara Millennium Universe 2020, Miss/Mrs South East Asia Millennium Universe 2020, Miss/Mrs Borneo Millennium Universe 2020 and Miss/Mrs Asean Millennium Universe 2020.