“My life is destined,” Tweetie de Leon, Maria Lourdes de 
Leon-Gonzales in real life and the niece of great filmmaker Mike de Leon, who turned 50 on March 2, describes her charmed life. A bunch of entertainment journalists sang her a “Happy Birthday” during her launch as the new brand ambassador of Organique Acai Premium Blend. The concentrated health supplement processed and bottled in California is fast becoming popular in the Philippines.
She considers the fabled LVN Compound in Tuazon Street, Quezon City, as her playground and playing a role in an airport scene in Uncle Mike’s masterpiece, Kakabakaba Ka Ba? as her baptism of fire in the show business she was born into. She was supposed to do the role of Faye in the iconic sitcom Okey Ka, Fairy Ko for two months, but fell in love with it that it lasted for six creative years.
But when she decided to leave the biz in 1995 and marry Gonzales a year later, she never looked back and played full-time mother until she agreed to be a brand ambassador of Organique Acai Berry Premium Blend. For this, she had to shoot a television commercial, face the entertainment media and huddle with Ruffa Gutierrez and Anne Curtis in the afternoon of the launch at Watsons SM Megamall where it is sold.
“Everytime I am in a bind such as heavy traffic, I find myself reciting ‘Hail Mary.’ Lo and behold, the knot will unloose, and I’d navigate with relative ease,” Tweetie reveals a life secret.
This must be why she is championing Organique, the brand whose vision and mission parallel her own mid-life advocacies. She is proud that the company fulfills the needs and promises of her personal beliefs and lifestyle.
Tweetie has been a health buff all her life. A fashion model from a very early age, who became the first Filipina Ford Supermodel, she went on to become an actress and an entrepreneur who could have been our fifth Miss Universe had she considered herself fit to be a candidate regardless of beauty queen vital statistics standard. She did have to play with the figures at go-sees.
Now a mother of four children, she also owns and manages TDLG, a boutique that designs and manufactures handcrafted jewelry, mostly made from kamagong (mahogany). Her pieces of jewelry are attracting buyers around the country and overseas, too, including the likes of famous fashion designer Paul Smith. She takes pleasure in personally designing and hand-crafting her jewelry pieces to ensure that each one is unique and follows her high quality standards.
Tweetie is also a sportswoman. A volleyball player during her school days, she is into scuba diving, mountain hiking and kickboxing. Today, she’s mostly into squash.
Such an active and busy lifestyle is only for the very fit and truly healthy. And a healthy lifestyle is precisely what Organique Acai Premium Blend is providing its rapidly growing base of loyal users who attest to its potency as a health and wellness product.
World’s No. 1 superfood
Organique Acai Premium Blend — as well as Organique’s other products — are made from the juice of acai berries, antioxidant-rich fruits native to the rainforests of Brazil that have been heralded for centuries as healing, immune-stimulating and energy-boosting “superfoods.” The premium blend is also packed with vitamins and minerals. For instance, it contains a high concentration of vitamin C and ellagic acid, an immune-system-boosting combination that has been shown to suppress the growth of cancer.
In Organique Acai Premium Blend the acai berry juice is enhanced by other natural juice extracts such as organic evaporated cane juice, apple juice concentrate, acerola juice and green tea extract to create a smooth, healthy and delicious all-natural drink that contains no harmful additives, preservatives or GMOs. It is definitely more effective than other brands and forms as it is pure.
“To have been chosen as a brand ambassador for Organique must mean we have the same mission of advocating better health,” Tweetie said. “And I really believe in and am fully committed to this common advocacy.”
But perhaps what really makes Tweetie the ideal spokesperson and brand ambassador for Organique was her first-hand experience with the premium blend. Although she has always led an active lifestyle and have always eaten balanced and well-portioned meals, she discovered two years ago that she had acid reflux.
“What I had was a very extreme case of acid reflux,” she recalled. “I consulted several doctors and tried everything, but it just wouldn’t go away.”
Meeting Cathy
For a time, she was dependent on over-the-counter medication for first aid and maintenance. Then, she met Cathy Salimbangon, who she encountered fleetingly a couple of years back. Cathy is the executive vice president of Organique, which she co-founded with her husband Elton seven years ago, and behind the company’s rapid growth in the Philippines.
This second meeting with Cathy changed Tweetie’s life. This was when she was introduced to Organique Acai Premium Blend and learned about its many health benefits.
“Since my first drink of Organique, I have been able to manage my hyperacidity without the help of strong medicines, save for a few severe cases of an attack,” Tweetie enthused. “It’s so effective that I even bring a bottle with me during trips.”
Now a regular user of the premium blend, Tweetie discovered, much to her delight, other health benefits the supplement provides. It even has beauty benefits, she noted, beaming.
“I take a straight shot of Organique Acai Premium Blend right out of bed every morning and another one in the early evening,” she said. “The practice helps manage my high acidity levels by providing an alkaline environment for my system.”
And this is a practice that Tweetie intends to continue and influence the public to adopt.
“I truly feel healthy with this new habit. I sense the difference in my physical and mental well-being. I am more spritely, active, alert and productive,” she said. “Daily cravings have been reduced to a minimum and, therefore, I feel clean inside. I feel good — great in fact — and that is really beautiful.”
Organique Acai Berry is available in the Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong and recently, also in the US. In the country, it is available at Mercury, Watsons and other leading drugstores and supermarkets nationwide.
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Tweetie de Leon, still active, healthy and beautiful at 50
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