She was a 2005 Southeast Asian Games karate gold medalist and a former beauty pageant contestant in Binibining Pilipinas 2003, where she emerged as Ms.
She is among the elite athletes in the country to have captured 3 gold medals in four Southeast Asian Games competitions.
Malalad was voted as Philippine Karate Federation by more than 230 clubs and associations from all over the country during elections at the Fisher Mall in Quezon City on February 17, 2019.
She currently works as a freelance journalist in the Philippines, collaborating regularly with Agence France-Presse, Al Jazeera and CGTN.
She alleged that "her helper Cristy Radoc entered the cage of her 30 adopted cats while holding a mug containing muriatic acid and she secretly poured it into the pets' drinking bowl causing some of them to suffer from eye irritation.
In collaboration with Pawssion Project Rescues PH-CARA Welfare Philippine, she protested the Village's administrative order not to feed the pets, invoking Republic Ac No.