Cielito Avanceña | |
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Avanceña (right) with Duterte (left)
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Born |
Cielito Salvador Avanceña February 16, 1970 Davao City, Philippines |
Nationality | Philippines |
Education | Davao Doctors College |
Occupation | First Lady |
Partner(s) | Rodrigo Duterte |
Children | Veronica |
Cielito "Honeylet" Salvador Avanceña (born February 16, 1970) is a Filipino businesswoman and nurse. She is the common law wife of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Avanceña and Duterte have been in a relationship since at least the mid-1990s and have a daughter named Veronica.
Avanceña worked as a nurse in the United States for four years. She returned to Davao shortly after her daughter was born in 2004.
She joined her partner's presidential campaign in Luzon during the 2016 elections.
She was Miss Davao Doctors College in 1988 and was first runner-up in the Mutya ng Dabaw beauty contest in the same year.