PETALING JAYA: Kimberley Leggett speaks Malay as well as understands Hokkien and Cantonese. “I love durians I am exactly like everyone else in the country,” said the beauty queen who is currently studying at the Taylor's University here.
Being an all-Malaysian girl, the 19-year-old Penangite is upset that her national heritage was questioned in an article in the United States-based magazine International Business Times (IBTimes) about the country's Miss Universe contestant being “too white”.
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