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47-year-old Singaporean, who has 6 grandkids, crowned at Grandma Universe 2023

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Portrait of Laura Lee, winner of Grandma Universe pageant, taken at her home on January 30, 2023. 

Laura Lee, 48, and grandma of 6, had her first child at 20 and first grandchild at 37.
She won the Grandma Universe title earlier this week in Bulgaria (only 14 other contestants).

Ms Laura Lee, winner of Grandma Universe pageant, at her home on Jan 30, 2023. The grandma of six had her first child at 20 and first grandchild at 37.

ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG

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SINGAPORE – The music is pounding inside the gilded ballroom of Hotel Montecito in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.

Audiences whip out their phones as Singaporean Laura Lee – clad in a sparkly red frock that shows off her lean physique – begins singing and doing the salsa to Michael Buble’s Sway.

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