MANILA UP! 29
This early, with her promising height, lovely features, and great personality, Kiks have caught the eye of two of the Philippines’ biggest modeling agencies and pageant training camps that search, train, groom and polish virtual unknowns and lovely Filipinas with great potentials into stunning global head turners. Off the stage and sans the glare of the spotlight, who is Katiana Butalid Borja? Katiana is a bundle of beauty, brains, and breeding who is consistently on the honor roll at St. Genevieve High School where she is a junior. She balances her academics for she also dabbles in sports as captain ball of the SGHS basketball team that clinched for her the Heart of the Champion award as well as Junior Associate Student Body representative in the student council. Statuesque and athletic, no doubt she gets her basketball DNA from her dad Anthony Fabiosa Borja. Aside from school and sports, Kiks is musically inclined and can sing while strumming the guitar or playing the ukulele. Observing her from a distance while Kiks or Kat, as friends call her, was channeling her inner diva in a fashion shoot, one can see that this is one special girl who is out to make a splash in the near future not only in her chosen profession but also in the modeling scene and beauty pageants. But that can wait. For the meantime, Kiks is getting a lot of kick as she enjoys the summer of her life.
Wardrobe by: Carl Andrada Photos by: Hydee Abrahan Hair & Makeup by: Rod Alcover