ON THE OCCASION of the 25th anniversary of the country’s most renowned and most celebrated “Science of Beauty Business,” no less than the entrepreneurial Dr. Vicki Belo of the Belo Medical Group of the Philippines came to town last August 12, 2015, with her gorgeous, equally bright and charming daughter, Cristalle Belo Henares, plus show biz heartthrob Piolo Pascual. Warmly welcoming Dr. Vicki and Cristalle Belo and their Belo Medical Group entourage to our vibrant City was Ballet Philippines President, Margarita “Margie” Moran Roxas-Floirendo, who had just come back from a recent trip to Europe.
The 1973 Miss Universe Margie Moran Floirendo, the last Filipina beauty to the Miss Universe pageant to bring home the much coveted beauty and intelligence crown, is among Dr. Vicki’s loyal clients since the doctora started operating her science of beauty business in a “humble 40 sq. m. clinic” in the country 25 long years ago. The Belo Medical Group is now the country’s first internationally accredited clinic with 11 clinics all over the Philippines. The Belo Clinic at the Abreeza Mall of Davao, the first ever in Mindanao, is the latest addition which was formally inaugurated last August 12 with the stellar presence of the doctora herself.
In her talks with beauty conscious Davaoenos at the Abreeza Mall supervised by Gatchi Gatchalian with the support of dear Marissa Salongga-Tionko, Dr. Vicki Belo revealed that the Belo Medical Group is “an advocacy stemming from my own personal experience.” “It is a story of how much more comfortable I felt in my own skin after I was able to solve my own problems of being fat, pimply and ugly. The boost in self-confidence was exhilarating and I want others to get that ‘high’ as well. It is my way of making people live happier lives by enhancing their self-confidence. It is my way of boosting Philippine tourism by making our country the most beautiful country in the world, one person at a time,” the bright doctora divulged like a real beauty queen.
Dr. Vicki Belo, no doubt, has been raising the standard of medical aesthetic surgery in Asia through her Belo Medical Group. Dr. Belo and her Belo Medical Group is leading the country’s Medical Tourism campaign which is obviously earning the much needed revenues for the country’s dreaded BIR headed by the doctora’s ex sister-in-law, Kim Henares.
Dr. Vicki Belo admits that it was the controversial, feisty actress Rossana Roces, who, despite accusing the doctora of being a “mere aerobics instructor” later on in the actress’ tumultuous life, brought the doctora her instant fame. “Through Osang, my name became synonymous with Liposuction. She came out on television admitting the liposuction procedure I did on her body; and was gutsy to show her liposuction-enhanced body on camera. Most showbiz personalities and social and political celebrities would otherwise have kept it a secret or even deny it. But not Osang,” recalled the doctora.
Dr. Belo and her Belo Medical Group is the acknowledged pioneer and stalwart of Liposuction in the country. Since it was introduced by the Belo Medical Group 20 years ago, Liposuction has become a byword to health and beauty conscious Filipinos from all walks of life. Thanks to Belo, men and women are now more courageous in availing themselves of Belo Beautiful enhancements to acquire that celebrity skin and body they’ve long dreamed of having. Oh yes, you, too, can have Marian Rivera’s astounding beauty or Piolo’s coveted six-pack abs. Balding men can now avail of the Hair Transplantation Technique called Follicular Unit Extraction using the state of the art NeoGrafting machine which creates scar-less hair transplantation. The Belo Medical Group is the first clinic in Asia to offer this latest in hair transplant procedure.
In a champagne-and-black-colour themed dinner party tendered by good friend Margie Moran-Floirendo at her well-appointed residence (which the doctora praised lavishly for its architecture and interior design), Dr. Vicki Belo narrated her sob story of how her life started as an adopted daughter seeking the answer as to why she was given up for adoption by her biological parents; to the often bullied, unattractive student that she was at the exclusive all girls’ school she went to in her youth; to her deprivations of the most wanted branded goods in a material girl’s life in this material world; and finally, to her eventual success as a passionate medical doctor cum business entrepreneur of the science of beauty enhancement. And yes, not to fail to mention her being a mother to achievers Quark and Cristalle Belo Henares whom she is mighty proud of. Sorry, but the still single doctora didn’t include her colourful love story which everyone, surely, wanted to be updated on.
Congratulations, Dr. Vicki Belo and the Belo Medical Group on your 25th Anniversary in the Science of Beauty Business. May you have more Belo Beautiful years ahead.