Grendel Alvarado

Grendel Alvarado is a 22 year old Filipina fashion model from Bacolod who won the first cycle of Philippines' Next Top Model a Philippine franchise of Tyra Banks top model search America's Next Top Model after making it to the finals with Rina Lorilla. Her prize was a Php 150,000 contract, a modeling contract with Saga Events and modeling representation courtesy of Starz People, Hong Kong and a six-page fashion editorial for Preview Magazine. Grendel is the eldest of the two children of Robert and Aleth...Grendel Alvarado is a Filipina fashion model from Bacolod who won the first cycle of Philippines' Next Top Model a Philippine franchise of Tyra Banks top model search America's Next Top Modelafter making it to the finals with Rina Lorilla. Her prize was a Php 150,000 contract, a modeling contract with Saga Events and modeling representation courtesy of Starz People, Hong Kong and a six-page fashion editorial for Preview Magazine.

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Grendel is the eldest of the two children (her brother being Paolo Alvarado) of Robert and Aleth Alvarado of Bacolod City. Grendel is a third year nursing student at the University of St. La Salle. She went to Manila in 2007 for the Top Model contest. She looks up to Gisele Bündchen as her favorite model because of her pretty face, great body, and graceful and glamorous poise.

Alvarado's prizes as the winner include a one-year deal with model agency Saga Events and Starz People HK, a contract of Jewelmer's Pearl Ambassador to the World, an international photo shoot, a six-page fashion feature in Preview Magazine (June 2007 issue), her first magazine shoot again for Preview (September 2007) and the most recent is for Cosmopolitan Philippines (January 2008).

Currently Grendel is an in demand model in the Philippines from runway to editorial.

She was An Unofficial candidate to the 2011 Binibining Pilipinas pageant.

However, She Was Disqualified In that said Pageant Due to Alleged Issues.