Vice President Sara Duterte is back in The Hague, Netherlands more than a month since her last visit to former president Rodrigo Duterte, who she said has lost a lot of weight.

In an exchange with supporters outside the Scheveningen Prison in The Hague on Monday, July 7, the Vice President shared that the last time her father was this thin was before he got married.

“Pumayat siya ng sobra. Hindi nyo pa siya nakita nang ganito kapayat siya. Ganito sya kapayat noong binata pa sya (He got so thin. You haven’t seen him this thin. He was this thin when he was still single),” she said, noting that he couldn’t eat well because there was no Filipino food being served.

“So, malaki ang pinayat niya. So ito yung braso ko, doble. So doble is kalahati nito. Kalahati na lang nito ang braso niya (So, he lost a lot of weight. So, imagine my arm is double the size of his arm. So, that’s just half of this. His arm is only half of this size),” she demonstrated.

The official also said that her father was in a “very good mood today” and was the one who observed that his arm was just half the size as his daughter’s.

“But para sa akin lang, he looks good na payat siya kaysa 'yung malaki ang tiyan tapos parang unhealthy tingnan at mukhang nakakatakot para sa kaniyang heart (But for me, he looks good thin instead of having a big belly that looks unhealthy for his heart),” Duterte shared.

“I like him this way, medyo (a bit) slim,” she added.

Although the former president lost a lot of weight, the Vice President assured that her father has no health complaints so far and is in fact in the regular detention facility and not in the prison’s hospital unit.

“Tinanong namin siya kung may complaints siya. Wala naman siyang nararamdaman daw. So okay naman siya on that note (We asked him if he has complaints. He said he has none. So, he’s okay on that note),” she shared.

Duterte arrived in The Hague on July 5 afternoon. She last visited her father on her birthday last May 31 and spent a week there before returning to the country on June 5.

The Vice President is scheduled to return to the Philippines on July 23.

“Mina-maximize namin yung grant ng detention unit na four times a week pwede bumisita (We are maximizing the detention unit’s grant that we can visit four times a week),” she said.

Duterte also said she’s aware that a lot of people are praying for her father’s case to be dismissed based on their jurisdiction challenge or for the interim release application to be granted.

The Vice President also recalled his words when asked about her father’s message to Filipinos.

“Sinabi niya na (He said) ‘I did what I had to do for my country and I have no regrets sa mga ginawa (for what I did)’,” she shared.