Bruna Surfistinha appeared in various television programs in Brazil and several periodicals and magazines.
19 Facts About Bruna Surfistinha
Bruna Surfistinha's blog attracted more than 50,000 readers per day.
Bruna Surfistinha's book inspired the 2011 Brazilian film Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl, starring Deborah Secco in the main role, and the 2016 TV series Me Chama de Bruna Surfistinha, starring Maria Bopp in the main role.
In 2011, Bruna Surfistinha appeared in a Brazilian reality show called finishing as the second runner-up.
Bruna Surfistinha's mother decided to abandon her, and within a few days the baby was in an orphanage.
Bruna Surfistinha revealed in interviews that she was a very depressed child and adolescent, always socially isolated, and bullied for being withdrawn.
Bruna Surfistinha was always the subject of humiliation by her brother, who never accepted the fact that her parents had adopted her and taken him from the position of only child, and therefore sole heir.
Bruna Surfistinha did not want to wait to graduate from university to start work, as her parents wanted.
Bruna Surfistinha's brother discovered her new life and told the family.
Bruna Surfistinha revealed that her greatest sadness was that her father had died without talking to her again, and that she resented her mother for not wanting to see her anymore, but that she is very happy with her current life.
Bruna Surfistinha was married from 2005 to 2015 to a former client.
Bruna Surfistinha revealed that she intends to have children up to the age of forty, but that professional projects always make her postpone motherhood.
Bruna Surfistinha had a premonitory dream about the death of her father, so a friend took her to a yard, and there an entity confirmed that he had died, which made her desperate.
In 2005, still under the auspices of the fame of her blog, Bruna Surfistinha published an account of her life.
In 2006 a second book by Raquel, "O que Aprendi com Bruna Surfistinha", was released by the same publisher, Panda Books, with text written by same journalist Jorge Tarquini.
The film based on Bruna Surfistinha's story was approved by the Ministry of Culture to receive a state subsidy.
The title was later changed to simply Bruna Surfistinha, and was a box office hit.
Bruna Surfistinha revealed that she received a fee of only R$500 for her participation.
In 2016, a television series based on the life of Bruna Surfistinha was announced with the title "Me Chama de Bruna" to be shown on Fox1 pay-TV channel.