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Fabiola Posada
Fabiola Posada
	Posada in 2018
Born	Fabiola Emilia Posada Pinedo; September 18, 1963; Santa Marta, Colombia
Died	September 19, 2024 (aged 61); Bogotá, Colombia
Nationality	Colombian
Other names	La Gorda Fabiola, Gordita Fabiola
Alma mater	Universidad Externado de Colombia
Occupation(s)	Comedian, actress and social communicator.
Political party	Partido Popular Colombiano
Spouses	Mauricio Valencia (m. 1983; div. 1997); Nelson Polanía Garzón "Polilla" (m. 1997);
Children	3
Aedile of Suba
	In office; 2001–2002
Bogotá City Council
	In office; 2002–2005

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Fabiola Emilia Posada Pinedo (September 18, 1963 – September 19, 2024) was a Colombian comedian and actress known artistically as La Gorda Fabiola.

Biography

Fabiola Posada lived in Santa Marta until she was 16, when she decided to travel to Bogotá to study Social Communication at the Universidad Externado de Colombia.^[2]

Career as a social communicator

She practiced her profession as a social communicator in the Diario La República and in the revista Contigo. She also ventured into politics being concejal de Bogotá (2002–2005).^[3]

Career as a comedian

Her arrival in the world of humor was by chance, when an assistant of the program Sábados felices approached her on the street because he was looking for a fat girl to be part of a section of the program. It was on the program where she met her husband Nelson Polanía "Polilla" and thanks to him she won the affection of her native country. As a comedian she performed in places such as Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Panamá, Caracas, Nueva York, Miami and Washington D. C.^[2] and performed several comedies for the theatre accompanied by her husband Nelson Polanía.

Illness and death

In 1997, at the age of 33, the comedian confirmed that she suffered from diabetes. On November 2, 2014, she suffered four heart attacks and underwent open-heart surgery. Days later, she returned to the intensive care unit due to bleeding in her digestive tract.^[4]

Posada died on the morning of September 19, 2024, at the age of 61, due to a heart attack and complications from a bacterium.^[5] According to reports, she had been hospitalized due to health problems since September 16. The director of the radio program La Luciérnaga, Gabriel De Las Casas, confirmed the news through his Twitter account.^[6]^[7]^[8]

References

^ ""La Gorda" Fabiola en Sábados Felices".
^ ^a ^b "Recordando el paso de EL TIEMPO... Fabiola Posada".
^ "Entretenimiento 'La Gorda Fabiola' celebra su cumpleaños número 90". Archived from the original on 19 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
^ "La Gorda Fabiola volvió a cuidados intensivos". Semana.
^ MC (2024-09-19). "Luto y dolor en Colombia por la muerte de 'la Gorda' Fabiola' a sus 61 años". MARCA (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-19.
^ Lara, Felipe (2024-09-19). "Murió la Gorda Fabiola". W Radio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-19.
^ "Quiénes son los actores en No me Echen ese Muerto | Reparto". Spoilers (in Spanish). 2021-10-08. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
^ "X: gabodelascasas (19 sept 24)".

[1] ""La Gorda" Fabiola en Sábados Felices".

[eltiempo_1-2] "Recordando el paso de EL TIEMPO... Fabiola Posada".

[3] "Entretenimiento 'La Gorda Fabiola' celebra su cumpleaños número 90". Archived from the original on 19 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.

[4] "La Gorda Fabiola volvió a cuidados intensivos". Semana.

[5] MC (2024-09-19). "Luto y dolor en Colombia por la muerte de 'la Gorda' Fabiola' a sus 61 años". MARCA (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-19.

[6] Lara, Felipe (2024-09-19). "Murió la Gorda Fabiola". W Radio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-19.

[:0-7] "Quiénes son los actores en No me Echen ese Muerto | Reparto". Spoilers (in Spanish). 2021-10-08. Retrieved 2021-11-10.

[8] "X: gabodelascasas (19 sept 24)".

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