Carla P. Gomez

Actress Assunta de Rossi, who is married to former Rep. Jules Ledesma (Neg. Occ., 1st district) gave birth to a baby girl Friday, October 23.The baby has been named Guilia Florentina Alessandra, and her nickname is Fiore, which means flower in Italian.The couple were married in San Carlos City in Negros Occidental in 2002, and Fiore is their first child.Assunta’s sister, Alessandra , posted a photo of her sister with the baby shortly after she was born. (Photos from posts of Alessandra and Assunta de Rossi)

Former Rep. Mercedes Alvarez, Maj. Dranreb Lansang and their twins.*Former deputy speaker of the House, Mercedes Alvarez, has given birth to twin boys.Alvarez, 38, who served as representative of the sixth district of Negros Occidental for three terms, said yesterday that she and her husband, Maj. Dranreb Lansang, 37, named the twins Genaro Francis and Benjamin Asher.The twins were born on September 3 to the couple who have been married for four years.Genaro is the name of her father and Francis of the pope, while Benjamin is name of the father of her husband and Asher means blessing, she said.Alvarez currently works as the chief of staff of her father Rep. Genaro Alvarez (Neg. Occ., 6th District).It’s fun having twins but of course the work raising them is twic...