María Isabel "Chábeli" Iglesias Preysler (born 3 September 1971) is a Spanish journalist and socialite. She is the daughter of Spanish singer

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and

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socialite

Isabel Preysler María Isabel Preysler Arrastía (born February 18, 1951) is a Spanish-Filipina socialite and television host. She is the mother of singers Enrique Iglesias, Julio Iglesias Jr., journalist Chábeli Iglesias, Tamara Falcó y Preysler, 6th ...

, and the older sister of singers Julio Iglesias Jr. and Enrique Iglesias.

Career

Iglesias has appeared in many local and international covers of gossip and entertainment magazines worldwide, at a young age, as the entertainment industry made the Iglesiases one of their favourite celebrity families. After the kidnapping of her grandfather in 1981, her father Julio Iglesias decided to move her and her brothers to safety in

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in the

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, where she lived in protective custody. During the 1990s, Iglesias appeared in several American talk shows. This was followed by a

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show called ''El Show de Chábeli'', which aired on

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Personal life

Chábeli Iglesias was married to Ricardo Bofill Jr, the son of Spanish architect

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. Their marriage ended several years later. In June 1999, Iglesias was involved in a car accident in

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in California, requiring hospitalization. The police declared that with the kind of injuries she had, only one out of a million people would survive. She was in the passenger seat when the vehicle rolled over several times and both passengers were ejected. On 8 October 2001, she married businessman Christian Fernando Altaba. Their son Alejandro Altaba was born prematurely on 14 January 2002. Alejandro's godparents are Julio Iglesias, Jr. and Ana Boyer. On 2 February 2010, Iglesias announced that she was pregnant with twin girls who were expected to be born in the summer of 2010. However, on 12 March 2010, ''

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'' reported that she had suffered a miscarriage.People
In February 2012 she announced that she and her husband had become parents of a daughter, Sofia Altaba on 4 January 2012, after a pregnancy kept totally secret.

References

External links

Chabeli Iglesias - biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Iglesias, Chabeli 1971 births Living people Spanish journalists Spanish people of Filipino descent Spanish people of Puerto Rican descent Spanish people of Kapampangan descent People from Cascais Chabeli