Long before showbiz beckoned, Charo Santos was already an accomplished beauty queen, winning titles in her native Calapan, Mindoro.
Her mom, Nora Navarro-Santos encouraged her to join beauty tilts, of course with the approval of her dad Winifredo Santos.
But Santos didn’t entertain the thought that she would conquer beauty pageants as she revealed in her interview with Toni Gonzaga on the latter’s YouTube channel yesterday, March 1.
Santos won these titles: Miss Calapan, Manila’s Five Prettiest, Miss Green Race 1974 and Baron Travel Girl.
“Kasi sa probinsiya ay magkakakilala lahat. They would always approach my mom and my dad and ask, ‘Uy, …
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