María Isabel "Chábeli" Iglesias Preysler (born 3 September 1971) is a Spanish journalist and socialite. She is the daughter of Spanish singer
Julio Iglesias
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (; born 23 September 1943) is a Spanish singer and songwriter. Iglesias is recognized as the most commercially successful Spanish singer in the world and one of the top List of best-selling music artists, reco ...
and
Filipina socialite
Isabel Preysler, and the older sister of singers
Julio Iglesias Jr. and
Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (; born 8 May 1975) is a Spanish singer and songwriter. He started his recording career in the mid-1990s on the Mexican label Fonovisa where he released three Spanish albums ''Enrique Iglesias (album), Enrique ...
.
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
Miami
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in the
United States
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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
television
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show called ''El Show de Chábeli'', which aired on
Univision
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.
Personal life
Chábeli Iglesias was married to
Ricardo Bofill Jr, the son of Spanish architect
Ricardo Bofill. Their marriage ended three years later.
In June 1999, Iglesias was involved in a car accident in
Los Angeles
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in California, requiring hospitalization. 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, ''
People en Español'' reported that she had suffered a
miscarriage
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.
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.
See also
* List of Spaniards
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