Véronique De Kock (born 3 April 1977 in

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

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) is a Belgian business owner, television presenter and beauty pageant titleholder.

Biography

Career

At the age of 15, De Kock was already a model in

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and

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. She has been featured on the covers of the magazines '' P-Magazine'', '' Ché'', and ''

HUMO ''HUMO'' is a popular Dutch-language Belgian weekly radio and television supermarket tabloid. History and profile ''Humoradio'' (meaning a portmanteau of 'humor' and 'radio' in English) was first published in 1936 as a Dutch-language counterpar ...

''. When she was 17, she won the title of Miss Flanders and one year later she won the prestigious title of

Miss Belgium Miss Belgium is a national beauty pageant in Belgium. The winner of Miss Belgium automatically represents her country at the Miss World and Miss Universe pageants if the dates do not overlap. Rules *Belgian nationality *to be never married and ...

1995. She competed at

Miss World 1995 Miss World 1995, the 45th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 18 November 1995 for the fourth straight year at the Sun City Entertainment Centre in Sun City, North West, Sun City, South Africa. The 1995 pageant attracted 84 delegates ...

and

Miss Universe 1996 Miss Universe 1996, the 45th Miss Universe pageant, was held on May 17, 1996 at Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Alicia Machado of Venezuela was crowned by Chelsi Smith from the United States at the end ...

but failed to place in the top 10 in both pageants. In 2013 she was a contestant in the VTM-program De Grote Sprong, a diving contest. From 2008 to 2018, she was the co-presenter of the Miss Belgium pageant. During the 2012 edition, she tripped on her long dress and fell as she was entering the stage at the very beginning of the pageant. In later years De Kock opened a fashion store, '1995 by Véro' in

Schilde Schilde () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With ...

, and relocated it to

Brasschaat Brasschaat () is a municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Brasschaat proper. In November 2006, Brasschaat won the LivCom-Award 200 ...

in 2019.

Personal life

From 2001, De Kock was dating Frank Slaets. They got married and have a son, Sébastien, born on January 30, 2005. They divorced in 2006. In 2019, De Kock married entrepreneur

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References

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