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Vicki Belo on raising daughter Scarlet Snow: ‘We don’t want her to feel na star (siya)’

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Rhea Manila Santos

<div> </div><p>As her daughter Scarlet Snow turns three years old on March 3, Vicki Belo said it felt as if it wasn’t that long ago when they unintentionally announced her birth to the public. “You have to understand that this is unchartered territory for us. When Scarlet was born, everyone was telling us to announce her to the public. (Journalist) Ricky Lo was someone I trusted with the story even before Scarlet was born and I really am thankful that he never printed it but the point was we really know how to make people know. It’s not that we didn’t want people to know. All our friends knew. Feeling namin doctor lang naman kaming dalawa, bakit kami mag-a-announce hindi naman kami artista? Hindi rin naman kami politician so quiet lang kami,” she shared during Scarlet Snow Belo-Kho’s launch as the new Red Ribbon brand ambassador held in Ortigas last March 2.</p><p>Vicki said that a typical day in their home starts and ends with their charming little girl. “A typical day is she sleeps with us. I usually go to yoga in the morning but it’s hard for me to go now kasi she’ll say, ‘Our family is not complete, Mommy!’ She goes to play school. Then she comes home and then she sleeps. We have so many lessons for her. She starts with Chinese Mandarin, she has swimming, she has gymnastics, she has reading class, piano, voice lessons. She enjoys it naman. The best thing is really time with daddy. Her daddy is the best storyteller in the world. We want her to be totally normal, as far as we can make her normal,” she said.</p><p>As one of the most popular celebrity babies on social media, Vicki said they don’t always dress up Scarlet in high end brand clothing. “The other days we’re totally not into making her a stylish baby. She really uses local clothes as her dusters or everyday clothes. So we don’t want to spoil her at all. We don’t want her to feel special. We want her to feel special because we love her but we don’t want her to feel na star (siya) or whatever,” she added.</p><p>Because she is easily recognizable, Vicki admitted that they hardly go out in public in Metro Manila. “We think it’s very hard. People also sometimes don’t realize she’s only a baby. So of course I’ve been with stars all my life and I’ve seen how they take pictures into the face and they do that to Scarlet so parang it’s medyo traumatic for her because she doesn’t know what’s going on. So what we do is we usually go to friend’s houses and that’s where she plays. We go abroad a lot. In Japan hardly anybody knew who she was. So she was able to run around like a normal child. We bring her to school that’s mostly foreigners, mostly Koreans, Japanese, Russians. So hindi nila kilala kung sino si Scarlet so they treat her like anybody. Hindi niya talaga alam,” she explained.</p>