Malou Tamayo-Martinez: Quintessential lady of charm, style, enterprise and volunteerism
‘I had been quite sheltered by my businessman dad,’ Malou shared. ‘He would personally drive me to school and pick me home later in the afternoon.’
Exceptionally attractive and kind are some of the best ways to describe this popular and well-loved lady of the current social set.
Malou Tamayo-Martinez is foremost a family woman, a devoted wife and mother, who is equally adept at managing the family business even as she is generous with her time and talent in various socio-civic endeavors.
Typifying the modern matron who is active socially and yet relevant, Malou is one of the best-liked women of her ilk, composed mostly of career women who do volunteer work, travel a lot and live happy lives at home.
During her elementary years at Saint Mary's College, run by the conservative nuns of the Religious of the Virgin Mary, and later high school and college at the University of Santo Tomas, run by the Dominicans, she was called Maria Lourdes by her classmates. Of course, in time, she would be better known as Malou.
Malou and I recently had dinner at Benjarong, the Thai restaurant of Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati. Over curried seafood among other culinary delights from the land of temples, elephants and spectacular beaches, it was an easy conversation — our topics ranging from her early years and being a mother to her current passions as a club woman.
