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Pia Wurtzbach is a Filipino- German actress and model who was crowned Miss Universe 2015. She was born on September 24, 1989, in Stuttgart, Germany to a German father and Filipino mother. She later moved to Cagayan de Oro, Philippines where she studied kindergarten and primary education. Pia finished her secondary education with the ABS-CBN Distance Learning Center and studied culinary arts at the Center for Asian Culinary Studies in Metro Manila, Philippines. When her parents separated, she became the breadwinner of the family from age 11 by doing modeling and acting.

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24 Jan, 2016

Wants to get tested for HIV

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As part of her HIV advocacy, Wutzbach says she will be tested for HIV.

The first step is get yourself tested and to let yourself be informed. I have plans of getting tested myself, too. If I take the first step, then maybe others can follow suit. So I hope that they do, they really do.

Pia Wurtzbach plans to get tested for HIV