| Yedda Marie Kittilsvedt-Romualdez | |
| Office: | Member of the Philippine House of Representatives for Tingog Sinirangan party-list |
| Term Start1: | June 30, 2019 |
| Office2: | Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Leyte’s 1st district |
| Predecessor2: | Martin Romualdez |
| Successor2: | Martin Romualdez |
| Office3: | Spouse of the Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives |
| Term Start3: | July 25, 2022 |
| 1Namedata3: | Martin Romualdez |
| Predecessor3: | Rowena Amara Velasco |
| Birth Name: | Yedda Marie Mendoza Kittilsvedt |
| Birth Date: | 22 October 1973 |
| Party: | Tingog Sinirangan (2019–present) Lakas–CMD (2016–present) |
| Spouse: | Martin Romualdez |
| Children: | 4 |
| Education: | Cebu Doctors' College (Nursing) |
| Termstart2: | June 30, 2016 |
| Termend2: | June 30, 2019 |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Honorable |
Yedda Marie Mendoza Kittilsvedt-Romualdez (in Tagalog pronounced as /ɾoˈmwɐldɛs/, born October 22, 1973) is a Filipina-Norwegian beauty queen and politician.
Romualdez' father is from Norway and her mother is from Cebu. She is a niece of actress Pilar Pilapil who was crowned as Binibining Pilipinas-Universe in 1967.[1] She graduated in nursing from the Cebu Doctors' College in Cebu City[2] and is a registered nurse.[3]
She is married to Martin Romualdez who currently serves as a congressman from Leyte and as the 24th Speaker of the House of Representatives since 2022.[4]
Romualdez first competed in the Supermodel of the World-Philippines pageant in 1991 where she was first runner-up to Lorena Pangan.[2] She competed in the Binibining Pilipinas pageant in 1996 but lost to Aileen Damiles. Instead, she became the country's representative in the Miss International competition in Japan, where she placed in the Top 15.[3]
Romualdez was the representative of the first district of Leyte in the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2016 to 2019.[5] [6] She is also the first nominee of Tingog Sinirangan partylist and has served as its representative in Congress since 2019.[7]