We already heard about the whirlwind romance between Ferdinand and Imelda (they got married after an 11-day courtship). Although not impossible, it’s still surprising how a romantic relationship could blossom that quick. Besides, the late dictator didn’t possess half of the qualities of Imelda’s ideal man.
“So who was her ideal guy?”, you may ask.
According to Lourdes “Lulu” Ferrares, one of Imelda’s closest childhood friends in Leyte, he must be “tall, have dark sunkissed skin and soulful eyes.”
Some men whom she met in her life certainly had those qualities, and they include a student doctor named Justo Zibala who lived only a few blocks away from Imelda’s house in Tacloban. But religion (Justo was a Protestant, Imelda a Catholic) was the main hindrance why the two never ended up together.
And then came Ariston Nakpil, a Harvard University graduate, son of the very beautifulAnita Noble, and at that time, one of Manila’s most eligible bachelors. He was tall, handsome, and had every thing Imelda was looking for a man. But there’s one obstacle: Ariston was not yet annulled from his previous marriage.
Imelda was so in love with the prominent architect, but even her father and the rest of her family were against the relationship. In the end, she decided to break up with Ariston to marry Ferdinand Marcos, then a neophyte congressman whose high ambition would later change Imelda’s life forever.
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