Natália Guimarães

Natália Guimarães

Beauty pageant titleholder
Born	(1984-12-25) 25 December 1984 Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Measurements	90-60-90
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Black
Title(s)	Miss Minas Gerais 2007 Miss Brazil 2007
Major competition(s)	Miss Minas Gerais 2007 (winner) Miss Brazil 2006 2007 (winner) Miss Universe 2007 (first runner-up) Top Model of The World 2006 (winner-resigned)

Natália Aparecida Guimarães (born on 25 December 1984 in Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil) is a former Miss Universe Brazil. She won the title on 14 April 2007 beating out over 26 other contestants from states and the Federal District.

Natalia is a model, actress and current host of Hoje em Dia, of TV Record.

Natalia, who began her modeling career at 15 years old and previously worked for Ford Models, also won the 2006 Top Model of the World International Pageant. However, she resigned due to her participation in Miss Universe 2007 and her runner up from the Philippines assumed the title. On 28 May 2007, Natália competed in the 2007 Miss Universe Pageant held in Mexico City, Mexico. She finished as the first runner up.

The day after the Miss Universe competition, a Mexican television show asked the public who should have won the pageant. Guimarães won this poll with almost a third of the votes.

Life after Miss Universe

On 13 July, Natália attended the opening ceremony of the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro with Brazilian delegation and held the national flag at the occasion. The Miss Brasil titleholder also participated of reality TV Dança no Gelo ("Ice Dance", an ice skating version of Dancing with the Stars) on TV show Domingão do Faustão. Natália also recorded a special guest appearance at soap opera from Rede Bandeirantes, Dance Dance Dance. The episode with the beauty queen was broadcast on 12 November 2007 in Brazil and USA (locally by Band Internacional). She was also invited to be a Victoria's Secret model.^[1]

In February 2008, Natália appeared as the Queen for samba school Unidos de Vila Isabel in the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[2] Later, she garnered a first important role in a telenovela, as Ariadne in Caminhos do Coração and in its sequel, Os Mutantes: Caminhos do Coração, both aired on Rede Record.

In 2009, Natália portrayed a minor role in Bela, a Feia, Record-Televisa partnership Brazilian version based upon Mexican La Fea Mas Bella. On this telenovela, Natália's character was found dead on a beach.

Since January 2010, Natália is host of Belo Horizonte's segment of national morning newsmagazine Hoje em Dia.

Television acts and works

Pageantry winnings and placements

Trivia

• Some Brazilian websites, due to the Miss Universe 2007 results, wrote her last name mistakenly, putting up Natália Rodrigues instead of Guimarães. Actually, this confuses her with the telenovela actress of that name.
• According to her parents, the choice of her second name is a tribute to Our Lady of Aparecida. She took a package of medals of the saint and use one of its as amulet at Miss Universe 2007 competition activities and telecast program.
• Natália was born with six fingers on her hands. She inherited a genetic characteristic called polydactyly from her father,^[3] a congenital physical anomaly in humans; these supernumerary fingers or toes do not cause any problems to the carriers. The characteristic was discovered by media reports.
• Prior to her current career, Natália had an audition for actress in Rede Globo's telenovela Estrela Guia, but her father forbade it in favor of modeling activities. After Miss Universe 2007, Natália resumed her auditions in the same station,^[4] but she was effectively rejected after her elimination from the Dança do Gelo competition. After this,^[5] Natália accepted a guest appearance on Dance Dance Dance.

References

External links

• Misses do Brasil Pictures of the final night
• Miss Brazil Official Page

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