CRISTINA SARALEGUI
Name: Cristina Saralegui
Born: January 29, 1948, Havana, Cuba
Cristina Saralegui (born January 29, 1948 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban American
journalist, actress and talk show host, well-known for hosting the Spanish-language
eponymous show Cristina.
Following Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba, Saralegui fled with her family
to Miami in 1960 at the age of 12. Saralegui and her family lived on Key
Biscayne, where she also attended school. After graduating from Academy of the
Assumption in 1966, Saralegui was a student at the University of Miami. She then
received an internship with the magazine Vanidades in 1973. In this job,
Saralegui had to teach herself to write Spanish, as she had nearly all of her
formal schooling in the United States and only functioned in Spanish at a verbal
level. Saralegui eventually worked her way up to editor of the Spanish version
of Cosmopolitan magazine in 1979. She led Spanish Cosmopolitan through most of
the 1980s.
Name: Cristina Saralegui
Born: January 29, 1948, Havana, Cuba
Cristina Saralegui (born January 29, 1948 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban American
journalist, actress and talk show host, well-known for hosting the Spanish-language
eponymous show Cristina.
Following Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba, Saralegui fled with her family
to Miami in 1960 at the age of 12. Saralegui and her family lived on Key
Biscayne, where she also attended school. After graduating from Academy of the
Assumption in 1966, Saralegui was a student at the University of Miami. She then
received an internship with the magazine Vanidades in 1973. In this job,
Saralegui had to teach herself to write Spanish, as she had nearly all of her
formal schooling in the United States and only functioned in Spanish at a verbal
level. Saralegui eventually worked her way up to editor of the Spanish version
of Cosmopolitan magazine in 1979. She led Spanish Cosmopolitan through most of
the 1980s.