Lucy gracefully walked across the room for makeup and an interview with a fresh face and lively attitude. Of course, it helped that her friend Chechel Joson was doing her makeup. Thrown in today’s pool of beautiful, tanned and smoky-eyed women, she breaks the mold and epitomizes the word pretty  with her words and manner like a cool summer breeze or delicate lace. Her soft features and feminine form are both breathtaking and refreshing. Funny thing is Lucy used to long for the proverbial "golden glow," almost frustrated that she was "so white." Then again, she has recently learned to appreciate what God has blessed her with  and rightfully so.
And what about her beauty regimen? Don’t we all want to know? Lucy never goes to bed with her makeup on  even if it takes removing it with eyes closed, already half-asleep. If needed, she visits her dermatologist. She says that she is all for enhancing and improving what you have but not to the extent of being obsessed about it. She does not let one pimple get the best of her, in Lucy’s own words she is "reasonably vain." One thing that Lucy thinks is important to being a beautiful person is to simply be a happy person. For Lucy, it is being still and knowing when to be still. A little traffic and a little everyday stress isn’t enough to ruin her day. She believes in a kind of beauty that has depth and substance, most importantly, having the right heart and attitude about things. Her mom has influenced her a lot. She has helped Lucy become a good mom to her daughter Juliana who is now six years old. Perhaps in the same way, Juliana shows the same love and admiration for Lucy  she always wants a miniature version of what her mommy Lucy has which is a desk, complete with her own little stapler, a cup of pens; constantly signing "checks" and filing daddy’s old scripts.
There is something very endearing about Lucy. Perhaps it is her gentle manner and very malambing way of speaking, or the way she candidly recounts her dieting days as a young woman, her love for chicharong bulaklak (feeling guilty now when she eats it and yet still takes the bite!), funny stories about crushes of long ago, her love for entertaining and her passion for reading books. Lucy loves books. One of her main indulgences is ordering books online. One thing though is that most of the time, she "judges a book by its cover"  yes, she admits that she buys books because of its cover art. She delights in finding that her judgments were correct and that she has found herself a good book. Some favorites are from Ruth Reichl, with books richly entitled: Tender at the Bone, Comfort Me with Apples and Garlic and Sapphires.
With her very busy schedule, Lucy longs to have time to read her new books. Despite the fact that she is very much a public entity, she enjoys being home with her family or having dinner with lots of people over at their place.
As the interview ended Lucy was telling a story about how, when she was young, she "dieted to death" for her crush. She had to do it because she was big-boned in comparison to her crush. Her tito told her not to deny her Spanish roots and just look for a taller man. She says that when you’re young, you think that your first love is the real thing. She wants to impart this lesson to Juliana when she comes of age. "But when you grow up you realize so many things."
A few things on Lucy’s wishlist are: to have a resthouse in Tagaytay and to go back to Switzerland and other countries where they spent their honeymoon. She keeps a notebook where she writes her little and grand plans for the future. She was happy to announce that some have already come true  like learning how to bake the perfect chocolate chip cookie.
What the world truly needs is something beautiful. Lucy Torres-Gomez reminds us that a beautiful woman emerges from accepting what life brings and finding contentment in who you were made to be. There is already too much toughness out there. Perhaps Lucy reminds us that femininity isn’t yet out of style and that life’s simple joys with a dash of life’s grand surprises are just so deliciously worth it.