EVERYTHING’S COMING UP DAISY

Gen X might know Daisy Fuentes best for her breakthrough TV spot as MTV’s first Latina VJ back in 1993, simultaneously hosting both MTV in English and MTV Internacional in Spanish. But before she was a lauded television star turned talk show host, Fuentes was a globetrotting little girl whose family moved from Cuba (where her dad was from) to Spain (where her mom was from) in order to escape the Castro regime. They ultimately settled in New Jersey where she started her young career by entering the world of modeling, which parlayed into a gig as the weather person for Spanish-language station Telemundo—which is precisely when MTV took notice of this rapidly rising star.

Thirty years and 135 IMDB credits later, Fuentes, now 53 and chiller than ever, has a new calling. Along with her husband, pop-rock mogul and Grammy-winner Richard Marx (“Endless Summer Nights” might come to mind), Fuentes has embraced veganism with the same fierce determination to name her one of the “25 Most Powerful Women.”