TANGIA ZAMAN METHILA
Country Bangladesh
Age 27
Instagram @tanjia.methela
MEET TANGIA
Tangia Zaman Methila is from a small town in Bangladesh. She overcame the deeply rooted patriarchy that tried to hold her back and moved to the capital city of Dhaka, where she became a supermodel, beauty queen and actress.
Tangia has faced misogyny and discrimination; appearing on the MISS UNIVERSE stage gives her a voice to make change happen. She has a strong sense of social responsibility and works with the Rising Star Charity Organization and is devoted to children’s welfare programs and animal rights activism.
She was a frontline worker during the COVID-19 pandemic and worked on various food and welfare programs to help her community. She is an avid traveller and has visited many countries such as France, UAE, Maldives, India, Singapore, Thailand, Nepal, Indonesia and more.
FUN FACTS
-Tangia comes from a small town in Bangladesh, where the women are married by the age of 15. She's escaped that and hopes to make a major change in the future for these young women.
-She is a very spiritual person and considers the Earth a living being. She worships nature and will do everything in her power to save the environment.
-Tangia acted in a powerful film about the plight of the Rohingya refugees.