Loletta Chu (born 7 September 1958 in

Mandalay Mandalay is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon. It is located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 631 km (392 mi) north of Yangon. In 2014, the city had a population of 1,225,553. Mandalay was founded in 1857 by Ki ...

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

) is a Chinese actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the winner of the 1977

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Early life

Chu was born in Mandalay, Myanmar, in 1958 into an ethnic Chinese family, with roots in Taishan,

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

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. In 1968 she and her family moved to

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

, where she attended St. Teresa School,

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and King George V School. She did some modelling in her teen years.

1977 Miss Hong Kong

She participated in the 1977

and became the first candidate to win both the title as well as a second, Miss Photogenic. Coincidentally, ever since Chu won both titles, the winner of the title Miss Photogenic became a good indication of who would eventually be the winner, or runners-up, of the competition. She represented Hong Kong at Miss Universe 1977 in the

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Personal life

She is the former wife of the late tycoon and philanthropist Henry Fok's son, Timothy, with whom she has three sons,

Kenneth Kenneth is a given name of Gaelic origin. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and '' Cináed''. The modern Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a byna ...

, Eric and Jeremy. Chu and Fok announced their divorce in September 2006, after more than two decades of marriage. She remarried, to Hong Kong real estate billionaire Vincent Lo of Shui On Group, in Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Singapore in November 2008.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chu, Loletta 1958 births Living people Miss Hong Kong winners Hong Kong female models Alumni of King George V School, Hong Kong People from Mandalay Burmese emigrants to Hong Kong Burmese people of Chinese descent Miss Universe 1977 contestants