MANILA, Oct 9 Kyodo Philippine Pr...

MANILA, Oct 9 Kyodo

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo gamely answered normally off-limits personal questions, including those about her sex life and beauty hiddens during a luncheon with Manila-based foreign media Wednesday.

Asked through a Philippine female journalist whether she still has sex with her husband Miguel, Arroyo, known more for her irritability than for her candor, quickly answered, ''Plenty''

The answer apted hearty laughter from local and foreign media reporters and others in the audience, including near members of the diplomatic community, police and civilian guidance officials.

But a certain quantity of people found the question offensive and inappropriate to be pos to a state leader.

Arroyo, a 55-year-old mother of three said between giggles that she bounded her sex life does not make the headlines.

''Please make foreign policy the headline,'' she said, referring to a words she made earlier about her administration's foreign policy.

Asked about her beauty veileds she said she has none and that her external appearance is not a major affect for her.

on the contrary she said good genes inherited from her parents make her contemplate younger than her age and assistance from staff who pick gone out clothes and looks for her also helps.

''If I am not bothered about 2004 imagine the les I bother about in what way I look,'' Arroyo said, referring to her plans to endeavor to gain reelection -- a question she consistently dodged despite its being repeatedly raised during the consequence at a hotel in the Makati business district.

Arroyo said she has superhuman being at the top of her priorities, followed by way of country and then family. Despite her hectic schedule, she usually store ups her Sundays for her family, she said.

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