Yedda Marie Romualdez

Yedda Marie Mendoza Kittilsvedt-Romualdez (ɾoˈmwɐldɛs, born October 22, 1973) is a Filipina-Norwegian beauty queen and politician. Her father is from Norway and her mother is from Cebu. She is a niece of actress Pilar Pilapil who was crowned as Binibining Pilipinas-Universe in 1967. She graduated in nursing from the Cebu Doctors' College in Cebu City and is a registered nurse. She is married to Martin Romualdez who is a congressman of Leyte and the Speaker of the House of Representatives since 2022. She first competed in the Supermodel of the World-Philippines pageant in 1991 where she was first runner up to Lorena Pangan. She competed in the Binibining Pilipinas pageant in 1996 but lost to Aileen Damiles. Instead, she became the country's representative in the Miss International competition in Japan, where she placed in the Top 15. Yedda was the representative of the first district of Leyte in the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2016 to 2019. She is also the first nominee of Tingog Sinirangan partylist and has served as its representative in Congress since 2019.