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{{Short description|Chilean actress, beauty queen and TV host}}
{{BLP sources|date=September 2010}}

| nationalcompetitioncompetitions = {{ubl|[[Miss Chile|Miss Chile 1987]]<br />(Winner)<br>|[[Miss Universe 1987]]<br />(Winner)}}

| birth_place= [[Santiago de Chile|Santiago]], [[Chile]]

| spouse = *{{marriage|[[MichaelCarlos Young (actor)|Michael YoungMenem]]|1990|2001|2011|end=div}}|{{marriage|José Patricio Daire Barrios|2022}}}}

'''Cecilia Carolina Bolocco Fonck''' (born May 19, 1965) is a Chilean actress, TV host, and beauty queen who was crowned [[Miss Universo Chile|Miss Universo Chile 1987]] and [[Miss Universe 1987]].

Bolocco has worked as a journalist on the Spanish language edition of [[CNN]], on [[Telemundo]] and on various programs for Chilean Television and she acted on the soap opera ''[[Morelia (telenovela)|Morelia]]''.

|location=[[United Kingdom]]

|accessdateaccess-date=2010-09-16}}</ref> and 2011 she was married to the 44th President of Argentina [[Carlos Menem]].

Bolocco was born in [[Santiago, Chile]] to Enzo Bolocco Cintolesi, an [[Arbëreshë people|Arbëreshë]] (Italo-Albanian) businessman <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tpino.netfirms.com/bolocco.htm |title=Bolocco family in Chile |access-date=2019-02-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714165545/http://tpino.netfirms.com/bolocco.htm |archive-date=2011-07-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Rose Marie Fonck Assler. She attended primary and secondary school at [[Santiago College]]. She then studied a year of [[civil engineering]] at the [[University of Santiago, Chile]], before dropping out to pursue [[costume design]] at the INCA-CEA Institute.

[[FileImage:Cecilia Bolocco cropped imageBallet.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Cecilia Bolocco croppedduring imageher ballet classes in 1985.]]

Bolocco was selected [[Miss Chile]] for [[Miss Universe]] on April 20, 1987. On May 26, 1987, she beat 67 contestants to become the first Chilean to win the Miss Universe [[beauty pageant]] that was held at the [[World Trade Centre, Singapore|World Trade Centre]] in [[Singapore]] that year.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121103204452/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/472763211.html?dids=472763211:472763211&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+27%2C,+1987&author=&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Miss+Universe+1987+crowned "Miss Universe 1987 crowned"] [[Toronto Star]], 27 May 1987. p. A.28. {{paywallsubscription required}} </ref> During her year-long reign, she settled in [[Los Angeles, California]].

In March 1990, Bolocco married [[American people|American]] television producer [[Michael Young (actor)|Michael Young]] in Santiago. The local media covered the event as if it were a royal wedding.

Bolocco moved to [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] to work as an anchorwoman for the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] section at [[CNN]] produced for Telemundo Network, onin June, 1990. Then, she became a full-fledged member of the [[Telemundo]] family where she hosted the afternoon lifestyles program ''[[List of programs broadcast by Telemundo|La Buena Vida]]'' ("The Good Life"), The show was merged with another newsmagazine titled ''[[Ocurrio asi|Ocurrió así]]'' ("It Happened This Way") and ''Esta noche con Cecilia Bolocco'' ("Tonight With Cecilia Bolocco") followed, for which she won two [[Emmy]] awards.

She then took a starring role as the evil ''Karina Lafontaine de Montero'' in the Mexican [[Televisa]]'s hit [[soap opera]] [[Morelia (telenovela)|Morelia]], which was aired to more than 70 countries throughout the Americas, including [[Chile]], and [[Europe]].

Around the mid-1990s, Bolocco ended her relationship with husband Michael Young. The marriage was annulled, because no [[divorce]] law existed in Chile at the time.

In October 1996, already separated, Bolocco took the job as co-host in one of the shows with the highest ratings in Chilean television history, ''Viva el lunes'' ("Long Live Monday"), alongside Kike Morandé and comedian Álvaro Salas. At the same time, she had a radio show and appeared in her own television show, ''La noche de Cecilia'' ("The Night of Cecilia").

In August 2001 Bolocco's marriage to Young was annulled. On 26 May 2001, Bolocco married former [[Argentina|Argentine]] president [[Carlos Menem]] in [[La Rioja, Argentina]],<ref name=BBC /><ref>[http://www.lacuarta.cl/sitios/bolocco/index.html "Cecilia Bolocco, El casamiento del año"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060516025925/http://www.lacuarta.cl/sitios/bolocco/index.html |date=2006-05-16 }}, ''La Cuarta''</ref> whom she met while interviewing him at the [[Casa Rosada]] presidential house in Argentina. On November 19, 2003, their first son, Máximo Saúl Menem Bolocco, was born in Santiago, Chile. They separated in April 2007 and officially divorced in May 2011.

* [[List of television presenters|List of television presenters/Chile]]

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[[Category:PeopleActresses from Santiago, Chile]]

[[Category:TelevisionChilean television talk show hosts]]