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Marcela Tedeschi de Araújo Temer (born 16 May 1983) is the wife of
Michel Temer Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia (; born 23 September 1940) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 1 January 2019. He took office after the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impe ...
, the 37th President of Brazil, She served as the 36th First Lady of Brazil, from 31 August 2016 until 1 January 2019. She also served as the Second Lady of Brazil from 2011 to 2016. As first lady, she worked on social policies for children, having been an Ambassador for the Happy Child Program. Marcela was born and raised in Paulínia. She graduated from the Autonomous Faculty of Law (FADISP). She was Miss Paulínia and Vice-Miss São Paulo.


Early life

Marcela Tedeschi Araújo was born on 16 May 1983 in
Paulínia Paulínia is a Brazilian municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo. It is located in the northwest of the São Paulo Macrometropolis and is about 119 km from the São Paulo, state capital. It occupies an ar ...
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, to Carlos Antônio de Araújo and Norma Tedeschi. After graduating from the Escola Estadual Porphyrio da Paz, in her native Paulínia, Marcela worked as a receptionist for the newspaper ''O Momento''. In 2002, at the age of nineteen, she won the title of Miss Paulínia, then moving on to share the state title as Miss São Paulo.


Public life

In 2003, she married Michel Temer, with whom she has a son, Michel Filho. In 2002, Marcela accompanied her uncle Geraldo, a Paulínia municipal employee, to the annual political convention of the
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(PMDB). While there, Marcela met
Michel Temer Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia (; born 23 September 1940) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 1 January 2019. He took office after the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impe ...
, a politician forty-three years her senior. The couple married on 26 July 2003, in a small ceremony. In 2009, Marcela graduated with a law degree from ''Fadisp'', a private school in
São Paulo São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the ...
. In an interview, Marcela says that she never took the licensing exam because of the birth of the couple's son Michel (often referred to by his nickname "Michelzinho"). In the 2011 presidential inauguration, she drew national and international attention for her beauty and 43 year age difference with her husband, which had led her throughout his terms as vice president to remain reserved and out of the spotlight until Michel became president, when she took charge of social causes.


Controversies

On 12 May 2016, Brazilian police arrested three people for attempting to extort money from Marcela after they hacked her personal Internet account. The Brazilian weekly magazine '' Veja'' featured a profile of Marcela Temer in their 18 April 2016 issue. The title, ''"Bela, recatada, e do lar'"'' (translated as "beautiful, demure, and a
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") portrayed Marcela as a feminine helpmate. Almost immediately, Brazilian feminists, outraged by the transition from the country's first female president
Dilma Rousseff Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the only woman to have held the ...
to a more conservative government, responded on social media by posting memes of themselves that questioned Marcela as a role model for Brazilian womanhood.


See also

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First Lady of Brazil First Lady of Brazil () is a title given to the hostess of Alvorada Palace. The position is traditionally filled by the wife of the current president of Brazil, but may apply to women who are not the president's wives, for instance, when the pr ...


References

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