Maria Poonlertlarp

At 32 years old, Maria Poonlertlarp has this physical status:

Maria Lynn Ehren (born 18 January 1992), known professionally as Maria Poonlertlarp (RTGS: Mariya Phunloetlap), is a Swedish-Thai beauty pageant titleholder, model, and singer who was crowned Miss Universe Thailand 2017.

She represented Thailand at the Miss Universe 2017 competition, finishing as a top five finalist.

Early life

Ehren was born in Bangkok to a Swedish father, Göran Ehren, who is a project development executive and a Thai Chinese mother, Chanoksuang Poonlertlarp, who is a former teacher at the American TESOL Institute.

At the age of two, Ehren and her family moved to Hanoi, Vietnam and at seven, she returned to Bangkok. When she was 14, Ehren began to train as a model with Elle Thailand. After she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in international business administration from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in 2013, she later attended Stockholm Business School of the Stockholm University, where she received a Master's degree in Consumer and Business Marketing in 2016. Ehren speaks Chinese, English, Swedish, Thai and Vietnamese.

Personal life

Ehren is Buddhist. In addition, she is a volunteer who teaches English at Duang Prateep, a non-profit foundation sponsored by the Thai royal family for children in Thailand.

In 2020, she expressed her support for the protesters of 2020 Thai protests.

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Career

Ehren was both an English teacher and a DJ while living in Sweden. She joined the Erasmus Student Network in Rotterdam as the head of a marketing group. Ehren returned to Thailand in 2014 to work for Broadgate Financial, where she moved to managerial roles in digital marketing.

Ehren began her modeling career in August 2016 and appeared on Vogue Thailand's Beauty cover. In 2018, she appeared in the 4th episode of Asia's Next Top Model (season 6). Toni Rakkaen, Virahya Pattarachya, and Bank Anusith all became a mentor on The Face Thailand (season 5) in February 2019.

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