- Born
- Birth nameMaria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel
- Nicknames
- Rainha dos Baixinhos
- Xu
- Xurumela
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Xuxa was born on March 27, 1963 in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is a music artist and composer, known for Super Xuxa Contra o Baixo Astral (1988), Xuxinha and Guto Against the Space Monsters (2005) and Xuxa e os Duendes (2001).
- Children
- RelativesNikki Meneghel(Niece or Nephew)
- Different, eccentric looks
- Blonde hair and piercing blue eyes
- Her pitched voice
- Voluptous figure
- Had a six-year romance with Brazilian soccer legend Pelé (1980-1986); they met a modeling assignment that paired them for a magazine cover.
- In the 1980s, shortly after her work for children started, Pelé reportedly collected every sensual photograph that he found of hers from her time as a model and gave them to Xuxa, mentioning that she should be careful with her new career.
- Considered ending her career after a fire generated by a short circuit interrupted a shoot of the Brazilian version of her Spanish show Xuxa Park (1994). Some of the children present were injured, but Xuxa escaped unharmed.
- Has stated in interviews that, after she met Michael Jackson, he proposed to her and his manager actually wanted her to carry his children; she was uncomfortable and declined.
- Is allergic to meat and fish products.
- [on her professional and personal breakup with Marlene Mattos] I lived in a easy and protected world. But without Marlene, the "Barbie" here now speaks by herself.
- [on Ayrton Senna] If that soul mate term really exists, mine was there in front of me. Some day we'll meet once again.
- [on children] If you wanna make me happy, let me be so among children.
- [at the press conference that announced her a Rede Record' newest cast member] When I was getting ready to come here, I was thinking, 'It's really hard, ain't it? To say that now I'm at Record [TV]. So many years unable to even say its name. [After] 29 years at Globo, it's hard. Now after I walked through there and saw the [Record's] emblem I thought, 'man, I'm really at Record now'.
- [on Xuxa (1993)] "When I got here, the first day, I was freaking out. English is difficult. They have nicknamed me 'But why,' because I keep asking about the rules of the language."
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