Véronique De Kock (born 3 April 1977 in

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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'' (stylized in all caps) is a popular Dutch-language Belgian weekly radio and television magazine. History and profile ''Humoradio'' (meaning a portmanteau of 'humor' and 'radio' in English) was first published in 1936 as a Dutch-langua ...

''. 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. History Queen of the Beach The first contest looking ...

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, South Africa. The 1995 pageant attracted 84 delegates. The pageant was hos ...

and

Miss Universe 1996 Miss Universe 1996 was the 45th Miss Universe pageant, held at the Zappos Theater, Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States on 17 May 1996. This was the last time that the Miss Universe was run by ITT Inc., ITT ...

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

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, and relocated it to

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in 2019.

Personal life

From 2001, De Kock was dating Frank Slaets. They have a son, Sébastien, born on January 30, 2005. They In 2019, De Kock married entrepreneur Manuel Goossens.

References

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