Cristina Saralegui
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Saralegui in March 1992
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Cristina María Saralegui January 29, 1948 Miramar, Havana, Cuba |
| Nationality | Cuban-American |
| Alma mater | University of Miami |
| Occupation | Journalist, actress, talk show host, TV personality |
| Years active | 1973–2012 |
| Spouse(s) | Tony Menendez (divorced) Marcos Avila (1982–present) |
| Children | 2 + 1 stepdaughter |
| Website | cristinaonline |
Cristina Maria Saralegui (born January 29, 1948) is a Cuban-born American journalist, television personality, actress and talk show host of the Spanish-language eponymous show, Cristina.
Cristina Maria Saralegui was born in Miramar, Havana, Cuba, to Francisco Rene Saralegui, Jr. and Cristina Santamarina. She is the eldest of five, she had two sisters Vicky and María Eugenia, as well as two brothers, Patxi and Iñaki. She is of Spanish descent from all four grandparents. Her paternal grandparents were Francisco Saralegui y Arizubieta a Basque from the town of Lizarza, Gipuzkoa and Amalia Alvarez y Cuesta from Gijon, Asturias, both in Spain. Her maternal grandparents were José Santamarina and Águeda Díaz.
In 1960, following the Cuban Revolution, Saralegui and her family fled to Miami, United States, and settled on Key Biscayne.
After graduating from the Academy of the Assumption in 1966, Saralegui enrolled at the University of Miami. In 1973, she began an internship at the magazine Vanidades. This allowed her to improve her written Spanish to the level of her spoken language. By 1979, Saralegui was editor of the Spanish version of Cosmopolitan magazine. She continued in this role through most of the 1980s.
In 1989, Saralegui transferred her journalistic success to television, by launching the Miami-based Spanish-language talk show, El Show de Cristina (The Cristina Show) on Univisión. She concluded each episode with a double thumbs-up salute and the Cuban expression "Pa'lante, pa'lante, pa'tras ni pa' coger impulso", ("Forward, forward; don't step back, not even to gain momentum"…could also be understood as "to get a running start".)
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