Maria Poonlertlarp is a Thai-Swedish beauty pageant titleholder, model, singer and actress. She was crowned Miss Universe Thailand 2017. She later represented Thailand at the Miss Universe 2017 competition, finishing as a top 5. She was born in Bangkok to a Swedish father, Göran Ehren, who is an electrical engineer, and a Thai Chinese mother, Chanoksuang Poonlertlarp, who is a former teacher at the American TESOL Institute. At the age of two, she and her family moved to Hanoi, Vietnam and at sev...