{"id":214132,"date":"2019-05-13T21:51:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T01:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=214132"},"modified":"2019-05-13T21:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T01:51:51","slug":"heart-evangelista-talks-about-life-lessons-from-the-late-senator-miriam-defensor-santiago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/13\/heart-evangelista-talks-about-life-lessons-from-the-late-senator-miriam-defensor-santiago\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Evangelista talks about life lessons from the late Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: “You really have to love yourself, really treasure yourself as a woman because whatever you face in life, ups and downs, at the end of the day, you have to know who you are and your worth.” – Heart Evangelista (Photo<\/a>: @iamhearte<\/a>\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the season of Mother\u2019s Day last Sunday, May 12, and just before the elections on Monday, actress and philanthropist 34-year-old Heart Evangelista elaborates her relationship with two mother figures – one being a politician – the late Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI’m very, very, very blessed that I met such a queen like her,\u201d Heart tells the media, \u201cEvery time I’d go through a breakup, it’s so funny because she would pick me up. She was really like a queen. She would have all of these, like, bodyguards, which I never saw anyone else but her. She would pick me up in the middle of the night, and I would sleep in her house.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Heart elaborates that when a relationship would go wrong, the politician would tell her \u201cthat [she] should really love [herself], treasure [herself].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On the same day, one of the visual media artist\u2019s 3.5 million followers asked her, \u201cWhat are the values you want to impart with the youth?\u201d In which she answers with a photo with Senator Miriam listing down 10 lessons.<\/span><\/p>\n

She states,<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. 1. It\u2019s okay not to know everything.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Be kind (I know it\u2019s hard, but try harder)<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Work is really hard, that\u2019s why it\u2019s called \u201cwork\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Do something you love. Make time for that so it will feed your soul.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. You won\u2019t live forever, so do good, be nice, make people happy so once you\u2019re gone, they will smile thinking about you.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Take lots of pictures.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Fight for love.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Write on your diary. It will be your story one day.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Dress like a queen. Don\u2019t care what people say. Express yourself.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Be grateful<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To honor both Senator Miriam and her own mother, Cecilia Ongpauco, the Kapuso star applauds being raised by empowered female figures, saying, \u201cI think growing up being surrounded by all these, like, really strong women, eventually, that’s what I feel I became. You really have to love yourself, really treasure yourself as a woman because whatever you face in life, ups and downs, at the end of the day, you have to know who you are and your worth.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In the season of Mother\u2019s Day last Sunday, May 12, and just before the elections on Monday, actress and philanthropist …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":214133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214143,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214132\/revisions\/214143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}