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Maria Victoria “Vicki” Gonzalez Belo-Kho (born January 25, 1956) is a Filipino aesthetic dermatologist, media personality, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is the founder, chairwoman of the board, and founding medical advisor of Belo Medical Group.
Maria Victoria “Vicki” Gonzales Belo was born on January 25, 1956 in Cebu. Vicki Belo was the fifth of nine children of Conchita Singson Gonzalez and Agustin Cancio.
Vicki Belo was adopted at two weeks old to Conshita’s sister Florencia who is married to Enrique Belo. She was reportedly bullied in childhood for being adopted and obese.
She began paying attention to her fitness at age 11 and began playing pelota and attended gym to lose weight. Her adoptive father, Enrique also intensively availed the services of dermatologist for Vicki. Her experiences in being bullied motivated her to take up a career in the beauty industry later in adulthood.
Belo earned a degree in psychology from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1978 and subsequently obtained a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Santo Tomas in 1985. She later obtained a dermatology diploma from the Institute of Dermatology…
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