Natália Guimarães

Natália Aparecida Guimarães

Beauty pageant titleholder
Born	December 25, 1984 (1984-12-25) (age 26) Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Measurements	90-60-90
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Black
Title(s)	Miss Minas Gerais 2007 Miss Brazil 2007
Major competition(s)	Miss Minas Gerais 2007 (winner) Miss Brazil 2007 (winner) Miss Universe 2007 (1st runner-up) Top Model of The World 2006 (winner-resigned)

Natália Guimarães (born on December 25, 1984 in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is a former Miss Universe Brazil. She won the title on April 14, 2007 beating out over 26 other contestants from states and the Federal District, Brasília.

Natalia is a model, actress and current host of Hoje em Dia, of TV Record.

Natalia, who began her modeling career at 15 years old and previously worked for Ford Models, also won the 2006 Top Model of the World International Pageant. However, she resigned due to her participation in Miss Universe 2007 and her runner up from the Philippines assumed the title. On May 28, 2007, Natália competed in the 2007 Miss Universe Pageant held in Mexico City, Mexico. She finished as the 1st runner up.

The day after the Miss Universe competition, a Mexican television show asked the public who should have won the pageant. Guimarães won this poll with almost a third of the votes.

Life after Miss Universe

On July 13, Natália attended the opening ceremony of the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro with Brazilian delegation and held the national flag at the occasion. The Miss Brasil titleholder also participated of reality TV Dança no Gelo ("Ice Dance", an ice skating version of Dancing with the Stars) on TV show Domingão do Faustão. Natália also recorded a special guest appearance at soap opera from Rede Bandeirantes, Dance Dance Dance. The episode with the beauty queen was broadcast on November 12, 2007 in Brazil and USA (locally by Band Internacional). She was also invited to be a Victoria's Secret model.^[1]

In February 2008, Natália appeared as the Queen for samba school Unidos de Vila Isabel in the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[2] Later, she garnered a first important role in a telenovela, as Ariadne in Caminhos do Coração and in its sequel, Os Mutantes: Caminhos do Coração, both aired on Rede Record.

In 2009, Natália portrayed a minor role in Bela, a Feia, Record-Televisa partnership Brazilian version based upon Mexican La Fea Mas Bella. On this telenovela, Natália's character was found dead 0n a beach.

Since January 2010, Natália is host of Belo Horizonte's segment of national morning newsmagazine Hoje em Dia.

Television acts and works

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Dance, Dance, Dance	Herself (Natália Guimarães)	Guest Appearance
2007	Caminhos do Coração	Ariadne Oliveira (Mulher Aranha)	Supporting
2008	Os Mutantes - Caminhos do Coração	Ariadne Oliveira (Mulher Aranha)	Supporting
2009	A Lei e o Crime	Gisele	Supporting
2009	Bela, a Feia	Mariana	Supporting
2010	Hoje em Dia	Host	Hosts the show segment from Belo Horizonte.

Pageantry winnings and placements

Titles

Pageant	Venue	Year
Miss Minas Gerais	Belo Horizonte	2006
Top Model Of The World	China	2006
Miss Brasil	Rio de Janeiro	2007
Miss Universe (1st runner-up)	México City	2007

Trivia

• Some Brazilian websites, due to Miss Universe 2007's results, wrote her last name mistakenly, putting on Natália Rodrigues instead Guimarães. Actually, it confuses her name with the telenovela actress Natália Rodrigues.
• According to parents, the choice of her second name is a tribute to Our Lady of Aparecida. She took a package of medals of the saint and use one of its as amulet at Miss Universe 2007 competition activities and telecast program.
• Natália inherited a characteristic from her father,^[3] transmitted by genetics, called polydactyly, a congenital physical anomaly in humans having supernumerary fingers of toes, which not causes any problem to the carrier people, but it origins hands and/or feet with six fingers. That characteristic was discovered by the media reports during its public exposure.
• Prior its current career, Natália had an audition for casting actress in Rede Globo's telenovela Estrela Guia, but her father forbade it in favor of modeling activities. After Miss Universe 2007, Natália resumed her auditions in the same station,^[4] but she was effectively rejected after her elimination of Dança do Gelo competition. After this,^[5] Natália accepted the guest appearance on Dance Dance Dance.

References

1. ^ "Miss Brasil confirms meeting with Victoria's Secret" (in Portuguese). Globo.com. 2007-06-06. http://ego.globo.com/ENT/Moda_Primavera_Verao_2007/0,,AA1558095-6211,00.html. 
2. ^ "Carnival 2008". http://oglobo.globo.com/carnaval2008/rio/mat/2008/02/05/em_noite_de_desfiles_irregulares_beija-flor_faz_apresentacao_tecnica_esta_na_briga_pelo_bicampeonato-425477154.asp. 
3. ^ "Miss Brasil Natália Guimarães born with six fingers on hand" (in Portuguese). Terra TV. 08-03-2007. http://exclusivo.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI1807072-EI1118,00.html. Retrieved 06-17-2010. 
4. ^ "Miss Brazil Natália Guimarães made an actress test on Globo" (in Portuguese). Folha Online. 08-14-2007. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u319859.shtml. Retrieved 06-17-2010. 
5. ^ "Rejected by Globo, Natália Guimarães will tape novela on Bandeirantes" (in Portuguese). Folha Online. 10-15-2007. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u336939.shtml. Retrieved 06-17-2010. 

External links

• Misses do Brasil Pictures of the final night
• Miss Universe official profile^{[dead link]}
• Miss Brazil Official Page

Preceded by Rafaela Zanella

Miss Brasil 2007

Succeeded by Natália Anderle

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Name	Guimaraes, Natalia
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Date of birth	December 25, 1984
Place of birth	Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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