13 things about Miss Universe Bangladesh 2024 Aniqa Alam

Aniqa Alam represented Bangladesh in the 73rd edition of Miss Universe. It marked the first time she competed in a beauty pageant.

BIOGRAPHY

Alam is a Bangladeshi makeup artist and beauty queen from Dhaka, Bangladesh. She attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, United States.

On March 2, 2025, Alam turned 35. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. From 2005 to 2010, she attended the high school department of Loyola Marymount University.
2. In 2011, she was a segment writer and editor at ICE Today Lifestyle Magazine in Bangladesh.
3. In 2013, she was a website writer and communications coordinator at the Pledge Harbor School and Sports Academy in Bangladesh.
4. In 2015, she graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a bachelor’s degree in political science and government and joined the office of the Los Angeles mayor as a legal intern.
5. In 2017, she visited the Maldives.
6. In 2018, she visited France, Russia and England, United Kingdom.
7. In 2019, she visited Morocco.
8. In 2020, she traveled back and forth between Dhaka to London.
9. In 2021, she visited the United Arab Emirates.
10. In 2022, she gave birth to her son named Avien.
11. She visited India in 2023 and Mexico in 2024.
12. She is Miss Universe Bangladesh 2024.
13. She was a Miss Universe 2024 candidate.

TIMELINE

Alam speaks Bengali, English, French, Hindi and Urdu. She is the first mother and the first married woman to represent Bangladesh in Miss Universe.

2010s

• From June 2011 to November 2011, she was an ICE Today Lifestyle Magazine employee.
• From May 2013 to August 2013, she was a Pledge Harbor School and Sports Academy employee.
• In March 2017, she got married.
• In June 2017, she and her husband traveled to Male, Maldives.
• In April 2018, she traveled to South Kensington, London, England, U.K. and Paris, France.
• On July 7, 2018, she and her husband attended the 2018 World Cup game between England and Sweden at the Cosmos Arena in Samara, Russia.
• In February 2019, she and her husband traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
• In July 2019, she traveled to Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• In October 2019, she told Daily Asian Age, “I knew I would be content following a career in makeup and now, the happiest I am, is when I’m working.”
• In December 2019, she and her husband traveled to Marrakech, Morocco.

2020s

• In January 2021, she traveled to Dubai, UAE.
• In September 2021, she traveled to New York City, New York, USA.
• In August 2023, she and her husband traveled to Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
• On October 6, 2024, she, her husband and Avien visited Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
• On October 24, 2024, she was appointed Miss Universe Bangladesh 2024.
• On November 16, 2024, she represented Bangladesh at Miss Universe 2024 and competed against 124 other candidates at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico (Arena CDMX) in Mexico City, Mexico. She was unplaced.
• On September 18, 2025, she crowned her successor Miss Universe Bangladesh 2025 Tangia Zaman Methila at Aloki Green House at Tejgaon in Dhaka.