- Born
- Birth nameImelda Remedios Visitacion Romualdez
- Nicknames
- The Iron Butterfly
- Meldy
- The Queen of Sole
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Imelda Romualdez Marcos (born Imelda Remedios Visitacion Trinidad Romualdez) is a Filipina politician who was First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, wielding significant political power after her husband Ferdinand Marcos placed the country under martial law in September 1972. She is the mother of current president Bongbong Marcos.
- IMDb mini biography by: Wikipedia
- SpouseFerdinand Marcos(May 1, 1954 - September 29, 1989) (his death, 3 children)
- Children
- ParentsMaría Remedios de Guzman TrinidadVicente Orestes Lopez Romualdez
- RelativesAlita Romualdez-Martel(Sibling)Alfredo 'Bejo' Romualdez(Sibling)Alberto Zialcita Romualdez Sr.(Cousin)Carlos Benjamin Orestes "Kokoy" Trinidad Romualdez(Sibling)Conchita Romualdez(Sibling)Armando Romualdez(Sibling)Francisco Miguel López Silgado(Great Grandparent)Norberto Lopez Romualdez(Aunt or Uncle)Martin Romualdez(Niece or Nephew)Daniel Gomez Romualdez(Niece or Nephew)Marian Gomez Romualdez(Niece or Nephew)Alberto Romualdez(Niece or Nephew)Johnny Romualdez(Niece or Nephew)Amelia Zialcita Romualdez-Janairo(Cousin)Milagros Romualdez(Cousin)Froilan Zialcita Romualdez(Cousin)Nina Lebumfacil Romualdez(Niece or Nephew)Estela Zialcita Romualdez-Sulit(Cousin)Eliza Romualdez-Valtos(Niece or Nephew)Benjamin Philipp Gomez Romualdez(Niece or Nephew)Loreto Romualdez Ramos(Cousin)Eduardo Romualdez(Cousin)Alfred Romualdez(Niece or Nephew)Daniel "Danieling" Romualdez(Cousin)Miguel Lopez Romualdez(Aunt or Uncle)Concepcion Gueco Romualdez(Niece or Nephew)Miguel Zialcita Romualdez Jr.(Cousin)Mariano Romualdez Sulit Jr.(Niece or Nephew)Rodolfo Antonio Romualdez Sulit(Niece or Nephew)Margarita Romualdez(Niece or Nephew)Daniel Arcilla Romualdez(Grandparent)Trinidad "Tidad" Lopez-Romualdez(Grandparent)Jose Trinidad(Grandparent)Vicenta de Guzman(Grandparent)Alfonso Fernando Luis Araneta(Grandchild)Luis Mariano Constantino Araneta(Grandchild)Joseph Simon Marcos(Grandchild)Sandro Marcos(Grandchild)William Vincent "Vinny" Araneta Marcos(Grandchild)Brigida Zialcita-Romualdez(Aunt or Uncle)Matthew Marcos Manotoc(Grandchild)Ferdinand Richard Michael "Mike" Marcos Manotoc(Grandchild)Marciana "Sianang" de Guzman(Grandparent)Borgy Manotoc(Grandchild)Jose Manuel Romualdez(Niece or Nephew)
- In July 1966, her husband was infamously snubbed by The Beatles, who were in the country on tour, when they did not accept an invitation to join the First Lady for breakfast. The famous no-show was televised nationally and public backlash towards The Beatles forced them to leave the Philippines immediately.
- Passed a screen test with Fred Montilla conducted by director Olive La Torre. However, her parents refused their permission for her to enter become an actress, dashing her hopes of movie stardom.
- Subject of the song "2000 Shoes" by the British band 'Big Audio Dynamite'. The song is included in the 1988 album, "Tighten Up, Vol. 88". Also mentioned in that song are Muammar Gaddafi, George Hamilton and Zedong Mao.
- While serving as the First Lady of the Philippines, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Cultural Center of the Philippines; Philippine Heart Center; Lung Center of the Philippines; Kidney Institute of the Philippines, Nayong Pilipino; Philippine International Convention Center; Folk Arts Theater; and the infamous Manila Film Center.
- Her extensive shoe collection is world-renowned. When her family fled the Philippines in 1986 during a popular revolt, she left a treasure trove containing jewelry, some 1,500 pairs of shoes, dresses, and paintings by the masters.
- When I left the Phillipines, people looked in my closets hoping to find skeletons, but all they founds were shoes.
- I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
- People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
- Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
- I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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