1. Alicia Machado was the fourth woman from Venezuela to be named Miss Universe.
26 Facts About Alicia Machado
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Alicia Machado's father was a toy store owner who emigrated from Spain and her mother's family emigrated from Cuba prior to the Cuban revolution.
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Alicia Machado began dancing at age 4 and acting at age 12.
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Alicia Machado won the 1995 Miss Maracay pageant, and then the 1995 Miss Venezuela pageant representing Yaracuy state and then the Miss Universe 1996 crown in Las Vegas.
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Alicia Machado's reign came as American businessman Donald Trump took ownership of the Miss Universe pageant.
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Alicia Machado said that, when she won, she weighed 116 pounds and was anorexic and bulimic.
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Trump arranged for 80 reporters to "watch [her] sweat" in a gym, which Alicia Machado later called "in very bad taste".
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In 1998 Alicia Machado had her first starring telenovela role as the title character in Samantha.
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On February 19,2006, Alicia Machado debuted on the Mexican reality show Cantando Por Un Sueno.
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Alicia Machado appeared in the February 2006 issue of Playboy magazine's Mexican edition, becoming the only Miss Universe to pose nude for that magazine.
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Alicia Machado was cast in the comedic soap opera Una familia con suerte where she played a woman who fell in love with her brother's enemy.
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Alicia Machado again posed nude for the July 2010 issue of the Mexican edition of Playboy.
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On September 9,2012, Alicia Machado was one of ten competitors on the third season of Mira Quien Baila.
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On November 18,2012, Alicia Machado won 3rd place in the 3rd season of Univision's dance competition Mira Quien Baila.
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In 2013, Alicia Machado starred as the protagonist of La Madame, a television serial produced by RTI Productions and RCN TV in Colombia.
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In 2021, Alicia Machado appeared as a contestant in the first season of the reality television series La casa de los famosos.
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Alicia Machado went on to win the competition with 40,586,129 votes.
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In 1998, Alicia Machado publicly supported the presidential campaign of Henrique Salas Romer.
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In July 2015, after Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign, Alicia Machado announced that she would publish a book detailing what she called his "abuses of power" and "racism".
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Alicia Machado said that, during her year as Miss Universe, Trump called her "Miss Piggy" because she gained weight and "Miss Housekeeping" because of her Hispanic background.
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Alicia Machado has repeatedly called Trump a "nazi rat", compared him to Hugo Chavez and Adolf Hitler, and said that he was capable of starting a new Holocaust.
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In 1998, a Venezuelan judge accused Alicia Machado of threatening to kill him while he was presiding over a case against her then-boyfriend for attempted murder.
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Alicia Machado denied both accusations and was never charged with a crime.
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Alicia Machado once dated professional baseball player Bobby Abreu; the couple later split, calling off their engagement.
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In 2013, after being diagnosed with breast cancer, Alicia Machado underwent a double mastectomy.
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Alicia Machado both wrote and produced her debut album, unusual in the genre.