Rose Marie Arenas

She is served as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2018 to 2022.

Arenas' daughter, Rachel, was the incumbent representative of Pangasinan's 3rd district. She was set to run unopposed in the 2013 elections but gave way to her mother.

President Fidel Ramos never publicly acknowledged a past relationship with Ms. Arenas, although neither did he emphatically deny the report. The scandal, though widely reported at that time, had no visible impact on the Ramos presidency, and quickly passed. For her part, Ms. Arenas attempted to parlay her unexpected fame into electoral victory, running for the Philippine Senate in 1995 and for the House of Representatives in 1998.

Arenas is an effective businesswoman. Although she was a Blue Lady of Imelda Marcos, much of her wealth came before her association with the Philippine first lady. From her husband Ramon she received numerous houses in Forbes Park and Dasmariñas Village on top of priceless jewelry and personal effects from her mother-in-law. After 1986 and essentially on her own, Arenas dabbled into supplying the Philippine Military with footwear and other essentials, adding more to her family's assets on her own stewardship.

Discipline was so stern in the young life of Arenas that it was almost ironic that she was allowed by her parents to become a professional model. For three years during the 1960s, she modelled for some of the leading stores and designers in the Philippines. She was even allowed to join the Miss Philippines pageant– convincing her parents that the proceeds of the event would go to charity – and even became a finalist in the event.

Rose Marie "Baby" Bosch Jimenez Arenas (born December 10, 1940) is a Manila socialite who featured prominently in the political scene of the Philippines in the 1990s. She was relatively unknown until 1993, when the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported that she had a past intimate relationship with the then-Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos. The scandal grew when within days after the revelation, the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission ruled against the owners of the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a dispute involving one-third of the stock ownership of the newspaper. It was widely reported that the adverse ruling came about due to presidential displeasure over the report, although no concrete proof of such ever emerged.

Arenas was born Rose Marie Bosch Jimenez in 1938 in Malasiqui, Pangasinan. Her parents were Alfredo Jimenez, an accountant at the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and a member of a modestly rich family from Makati; and Remedios Bosch, an opera singer and a music professor at the University of the East (UE). Her father was known as the disciplinarian in the family while her mother influenced her love for charity work, culture, and the performing arts. Due in part to her well-connected mother who sang in the prestigious opera galas in Manila and abroad, Arenas was exposed early to Manila's high society.