Pia Wurtzbach slams netizen’s ‘divorced, single mom’ comment

Pia Wurtzbach. Image: Instagram/@piawurtzbach

Pia Wurtzbach called out the hurtful direct messages (DMs) she regularly receives after a netizen wished for her to be a “divorced single mother.”

Describing the comment as “exhausting and hurtful,” Wurtzbach urged her followers to embrace kindness and stop normalizing toxic online behavior.

“Just another day, another DM. Wild, right? C’mon people. Bagong taon na (it’s a new year already). Nag CNY pa (Chinese New Year also passed). It’s exhausting and hurtful, din ha. Let’s stop normalizing this kind of online behavior,” the beauty queen wrote.

“Out na natin yung ganito (let’s remove this) for 2025, and instead, let’s be nice to each other and support and uplift one another,” Wurtzbach continued as she shared a screenshot of the netizen’s message.

Aside from the “divorced, single mother” remark, the netizen also accused the beauty queen of being unable to afford a unique design of the luxury brand Hermes.

Image: Instagram/@piawurtzbach

Last month, Wurtzbach confirmed to her Instagram followers that she would be skipping the Paris Fashion Week, which ran from Jan. 27 to 30.

The Miss Universe 2015 titleholder earlier declared that 2024 was her “most successful year yet,” after she graced runways and attended fashion shows in Milan, Paris and New York, making her land on the list of the most visible fashion influencers of the year.

Wurtzbach ranked 18th on the list after she recorded $38.4 million in earned media value (EMV) and a 1.1 percent average engagement rate, joining international celebrities Jisoo and Rosé of Blackpink, Kim Kardashian, Cha Eun-woo and Kendall Jenner.

In 2024, Wurtzbach was also named a top influencer for the Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2025 womenswear edition. 

In the same year, the beauty queen also received the Global Fashion Influencer of the Year award in Dubai.