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Breaking barriers: 38-year-old Filipina mom struts for Milan Fashion Week
Mikaela Lagdameo started her modeling career at 15 years old. She was discovered while attending events mounted by a teen magazine title. After a solo fashion editorial shoot, she was booked for a lead role in a TV commercial, and the rest was history.
Modeling brought her all over the country, even to Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, and Thailand, to name a few. And motherhood didn’t stop her from modeling, giving birth to three wonderful children.
So when her good friend and fashion designer Rosanna Ocampo Rodriguez discovered that La Double J was having an open casting call for Milan Fashion Week, she encouraged Mikaela to audition. “I thought I had a slim chance but since the dates fell right into place (she was booked for Europe around those dates), I thought, why not, everything is worth a try,” she posted on her Instagram account.
After two weeks, she received an e-mail notification that she got in. “I had no idea what to expect, but, basically, all the expenses were min
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Learn About Istanbul's Rich History & Mika Lagdameo-Martinez's Trip To Turkey
Deeper still into the Sultanahmet district is Istanbul’s most iconic landmark, the Hagia Sophia. Built by the Byzantines to be the seat of Orthodox Christianity in the middle ages, the Hagia Sophia, whose name translates to “holy wisdom,” was the largest building in the world and an architectural marvel of sand and ceramic, surmounted by a spectacular silver dome. During the Muslim conquest of Istanbul in the 15th century, the basilica was converted into an imperial mosque, and later on in the 1930’s it was declared secular ground and transformed into a museum by the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Atatürk. “The gorgeous architecture of the Hagia Sophia blew me away,” says Mikaela. “It is incredible to think that what was once a cathedral became a mosque, and is now a museum.” An integral part of Istanbul’s incomparable skyline, the Hagia Sophia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the only building in the world to be declared holy ground by th
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