"Monica Niculescu, Anne Keothavong and Marina Eraković. Pavlovic was born in Belgrade (Serbia now, SFR Yugoslavia then) to Dragan and Mirjana. She has a brother, Filip, who is a basketball player. She began playing tennis aged four, with Monica Seles as her idol. Russian tennis player Arina Rodionova is a good friend of Pavlovic, who is fluent in French, Serbian and English. Upon being coached by Christophe Serriere and Danyel Ristic, she was coached at famous academy of Patrick Mouratoglou. Irena Pavlovic Irena Pavlovic (, ; born 28 September 1988) is a French female tennis player of Serbian descent. Born"
"Monica Seles Monica Seles (; , ; ; born December 2, 1973) is a retired professional tennis player, who represented Yugoslavia and the United States and is also a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. An ethnic Hungarian, she was born and raised in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. She became a naturalized American citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007. A former world no. 1, she won nine Grand Slam singles titles, eight of them as a teenager while representing Yugoslavia, and the final one while representing the United States. In 1990, Seles became the"
"Drug Administration to treat BED, to raise awareness of the disorder she has suffered from since she was a young adult. Seles would eat normal amounts of food at meals, and then secretly eat large amounts of junk food when she was alone. In 1996, Seles made a guest appearance in the TV sitcom ""The Nanny"". She also appeared in 2008 in the TV series ""Dancing with the Stars"" as one of the contestants. Monica Seles Monica Seles (; , ; ; born December 2, 1973) is a retired professional tennis player, who represented Yugoslavia and the United States and"
"her last professional match at the 2003 French Open, but did not officially retire until February 2008. Regarded by many in the sport as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Seles was named one of the ""30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future"" by ""Time"". Several players and historians have stated that Seles had the potential to become the most accomplished female player of all time had she not been stabbed. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2009. Seles was born in Yugoslavia into an ethnic Hungarian family. Her parents"
"from Yugoslavia to the United States, and Seles enrolled at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, where she trained for two years and continued to practice until March 1990. Nine months after their arrival at the Academy, Seles' mother and father joined her and Zoltán in Florida. Seles played her first professional tournament as an amateur in 1988 at age 14. The following year she turned professional on February 13, 1989, and joined the professional tour full-time, winning her first career title at Houston in May 1989, where she beat the soon-to-retire Chris Evert in the final. A month later, Seles"
"October 2018. Gomez has earned numerous awards throughout her career, including an ALMA Award, an American Music Award, an MTV Video Music Award, a People's Choice Award, two Billboard Women in Music Awards, and eighteen Teen Choice Awards. Selena Marie Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas on July 22, 1992, to Ricardo Joel Gomez and former stage actress Amanda Dawn ""Mandy"" Cornett. Gomez was named after Tejano singer and actress Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, who died in 1995. Her father is of Mexican descent while her mother, who was adopted, has some Italian ancestry. Regarding her Hispanic heritage, Gomez has stated,"
"Monica Moss Monica Moss (born Monica Susana Schütt) is a Bolivian fashion designer of German descent. After initial success with her 1998 debut line ""An Evening of Enchantment"", she has gone on to provide designs worn by celebrities including George Michael, Salma Hayek, Rob Lowe, and Sting. Her brand is known for playful colors and shapes, as well as its commitment to fair trade, sustainability, and charity. In 2007, she was recognized as ""Most Out-There"" by the New York Second City Style Fashion Blog. Monica Schütt was born on January 28 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. In her early youth she"
"are Ester and Karolj and she has an older brother, Zoltán. She began playing tennis at age five, coached by her father, a professional cartoonist employed for decades at the ""Dnevnik"" and ""Magyar Szó"" newspapers, who drew pictures for her to make her tennis more fun. He is responsible for developing her two-handed style for both the forehand and backhand. Later, her coach was Jelena Genčić. In 1985, at the age of 11, she won the Junior Orange Bowl tournament in Miami, Florida, catching the attention of tennis coach Nick Bollettieri. In early 1986, Seles and her brother Zoltán moved"
"to connect models worldwide to each other and the public. Celine Prins was born on 1 August 1984 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With her mother coming from France and her father being Dutch, she has two nationalities. After she graduated from high school accomplishing her ""VWO"", she went to Spain for a gap-year to study the Spanish language. It was in Barcelona that she got discovered as a model. After returning from Spain, Prins started her studies at the University of Amsterdam. She decided to pause her education because of a full-time modeling career and lived abroad in various cities"
"Saldívar's trial for the murder—called the ""trial of the century"" and the most important trial for the Latino population—Saldívar said she accidentally shot Selena while attempting suicide. Saldívar was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Jennifer Lopez was cast as Selena in a 1997 biopic film about her life and achieved fame after the film's release. Selena was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson, Texas, to Abraham Quintanilla, Jr., a former musician, and Marcella Ofelia Quintanilla (née Samora). Selena was introduced to the music industry by her father, who saw ""a way back into"
"in Paris and the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, as well as sell-out shows in New York's Carnegie Hall and the Roman Colosseum during her final decade of life. Her career spanned four decades and she was the recipient of several Grammy awards and nominations, including a posthumous Latin Grammy award for Best Folk Album. She served as an ambassador for UNICEF. Sosa was born on 9 July 1935, in San Miguel de Tucumán, in the northwestern Argentine province of Tucumán, of mestizo ancestry. Her parents were Peronists, although they never registered in the party, and she started her career"
"not robots"", others considered her to be ""unprepared"" and ""nervous"". Cecília Malan Cecilia Malan (born 16 April 1983 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian Broadcast Journalist. She is the daughter of Brazilian economist and former Minister of Finance, Pedro Malan. And has been the London-based Correspondent for Rede Globo since 2011. Cecilia lived in New York, Washington D.C., Brasilia and Paris before majoring in Journalism at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. She started her career at Globo TV in 2005, as an intern on the morning news show, Bom Dia Brasil. At the foreign news desk, as"
"were made in Europe. Montez was born María Antonia García Vidal de Santo Silas (some sources cite María África Gracia Vidal or María África Antonia García Vidal de Santo Silas as her birth name) in Barahona, Dominican Republic. She was one of ten children born to Ysidoro García, a Spaniard, and Teresa Vidal, a Dominican of colonial descent. Montez was educated at the Sacred Heart Convent in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In the mid-1930s, her father was appointed to the Spanish consulship in Belfast, Northern Ireland where the family moved. It was there that Montez met her first husband, William"
"Sef Gonzales Sef Gonzales (born 16 September 1980) is a Filipino Australian who was convicted and sentenced in the Supreme Court of New South Wales to life imprisonment for the murder of his father Teddy Gonzales, aged 46 years, his mother Mary Loiva Josephine, aged 43 years, and his sister Clodine, aged 18 years. Gonzales was born in Baguio, Benguet, Philippines to Teddy and Mary Loiva Gonzales. After the 1990 earthquake destroyed their hotel business (his father rescued him when the hotel collapsed), Teddy Gonzales and his family emigrated to Australia, where Teddy worked as an immigration lawyer. The Gonzales"
"that talented players determined to make it to pro level mostly had to rely on their own families rather than the country's tennis federation. Yugoslav players still managed to produce some notable results, mostly in the women's game. In 1977, the country got its first Grand Slam champion when clay court specialist Mima Jaušovec won at Roland Garros, beating Florența Mihai; Jaušovec reached two more French Open finals (in 1978 and 1983), but lost both of them. It was with the rise of teenage phenom Monica Seles during early 1990s that the country became a powerhouse in female tennis: she"
"personal blog ""Pessimistic Optimist Bella"". Maine Mendoza was born on March 3, 1995 in Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines to Mary Ann and Teodoro Mendoza. Mary Ann is an accountant who owns a number of gasoline stations in Bulacan while Teodoro is an engineer who ventures on road construction business. She has two brothers and two sisters. All of the names of her siblings also start with ""Nico"". She finished her high school at St. Paul College of Bocaue in Bulacan. She completed a bachelor's degree in hotel, restaurant and institution management major in culinary arts at De La Salle-College of"
"in 1995 and at the French Open in 1996. Ječmenica started playing tennis in her hometown of Novi Sad at the age of 7 and attended the same school and played in the same tennis club as Monica Seles. In 1993, as a 2nd seed Ječmenica reached the final of Orange Bowl 16s, where she was defeated by 5th seed Stephanie Halsell, who avenged previous years loss to Ječmenica in the quarterfinals of Junior Orange Bowl 14s (Ječmenica was eventually stopped in the semifinals of that tournament). She won Port Washington 14s. In 1994, she lost in the first round"
"such as Madrid, Seville, Aranjuez, Huelva, Santiago de Compostela and Barcelona (Spain), Bergamo, Florence and Milan (Italy), Paris (France), Berlin (Germany) and Manila (Philippines) and in various forums in Central and South America. Meneses has rescued many traditional songs that had practically been forgotten and has performed songs by composers such as Álvaro Carrillo, Jesus Rasgado and Tata Nacho. Making mergers of traditional and modern for what she has achieved placed her with great acceptance among the public taste. Geo Meneses Georgina ""Geo"" Meneses (born in Oaxaca City, Mexico on 22 March 1974) is a Mexican producer and singer of"
"work as actress with the direction and management of Gessas’ Events Company. Furthermore, in 2009 she was awarded in Colombia with the Zootropo Prize as best actress. Cecilia Gessa Cecilia Gessa (born November 22, 1977) is a Spanish actress and former pornographic actress best known by the stage name Celia Blanco. Cecilia Gessa is a Spanish actress. She was trained in the school of film and television “Estudio Recabarren”, continuing her studies in verse with Yayo Cáceres and with the theatre company “Simpañía”. She was formed in singing and dancing by Óscar Mingorance and Karen Taff. Besides, she carried out"
"for her cooperation and contribution in Global Education and Peace Building, a member of the World Academy of Art and Science and participated with the Peacebuilding Commission. Born Cecilia Paz Goycoolea Grunwald, in Vicuña Mackenna, Santiago, Chile to an upper-middle class family, of European descent, her father came from a Roman Catholic family originally from ""Euskadi"" Basque Country, Spain, and her mother came from a Jewish Eastern European family. She had two sisters, Loreto and Sofia, and a brother Valerio. Paz attended a boarding school run by nuns. She felt such an affinity with the nuns' lifestyle-the way that their"
"of the actress Romina Yan (†), and of the producer and current Telefe director Tomás Yankelevich. Cris Morena was born María Cristina De Giacomi in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the youngest of four siblings and grew up in Palermo, Buenos Aires neighborhood with her upper-class family. Her father was an engineer and her mother was a sociologist. She studied at a traditional private religious school. When she was 17, she started working as a fashion model and became the popular face for Lee Jeans in the country. While she was modeling, she also studied social assistance in university and"
"Denise Rosenthal Denise Sofía Rosenthal Schalchli (born 8 November 1990, in Santiago, Chile), known professionally as Denise Rosenthal and by her stage name D-Niss, is a Chilean actress, model, dancer and singer-songwriter. Rosenthal was born in Santiago, Chile. She has two brothers, one sister, and is the youngest of four children. Her mother, Liselotte, is an industrial designer, and her father, Christian, works in ceramics. When Rosenthal was eight years old, her parents separated. She studied at Santiago College, a bi-lingual private school in Providencia, Santiago, Chile. While attending school, Rosenthal stated she was bullied because her family was not"
"in Mexico, Spain, France, Italy and Argentina. María de los Angeles Félix Güereña was born in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico on 8 April 1914. Her birth was registered on 4 May, which was later misreported as the date of her birth. She was the daughter of Bernardo Félix Flores, a military officer, of mixed Spanish and Yaqui heritage. Her mother was Josefina Güereña Rosas, a Mexican of Basque ancestry. She had eleven siblings: Josefina, María de la Paz, Pablo, Bernardo, Miguel, María de las Mercedes, Fernando, Victoria Eugenia, Ricardo, Benjamín and Ana María del Sacramento. She spent her childhood in Álamos."
"Cecilia Morel María Cecilia Morel Montes (born January 14, 1954 in Santiago, Chile) is the wife of the President of Chile Sebastián Piñera, and as such is the First Lady of Chile; she is also the Sociocultural Area Director of the Presidency, for her husband's presidency (2010-2014). Cecilia is the fourth of seven children born to Eduardo Morel Chaigneau and Paulina Montes Brunet, the sister of Hugo Montes Brunet. She attended grade school at the College Jeanne d'Arc de Santiago de Chile, the same school where her mother and grandmother (Consuelo Brunet Bunster) studied. At the age of 18 in"
"Cecília Malan Cecilia Malan (born 16 April 1983 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian Broadcast Journalist. She is the daughter of Brazilian economist and former Minister of Finance, Pedro Malan. And has been the London-based Correspondent for Rede Globo since 2011. Cecilia lived in New York, Washington D.C., Brasilia and Paris before majoring in Journalism at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. She started her career at Globo TV in 2005, as an intern on the morning news show, Bom Dia Brasil. At the foreign news desk, as an international editor, she helped cover the deaths of Pope"
"youngest ever French Open champion at the age of 16. She went on to win eight Grand Slam singles titles before her 20th birthday and was the year-end world no. 1 in 1991 and 1992. However, on April 30, 1993, she was the victim of an on-court attack, when a man stabbed her in the back with a long knife. Seles did not return to tennis for over two years. Though she enjoyed some success after rejoining the tour in 1995, including a fourth Australian Open title in 1996, she was unable to consistently reproduce her best form. She played"
"and founded the BeDream app. On the strength of these achievements, she was named the 2014 Laureate for Latin America in the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards. In 2015 she was one of the BBC's 100 Women. Bel Pesce Isabel Pesce Mattos (born 20 February 1988), better known as Bel Pesce, is a Brazilian entrepreneuse, best known as a writer and lecturer. She is sometimes nicknamed ""Menina do Vale do Silício"" (the ""Girl from Silicon Valley""). Pesce was born in São Paulo, and studied at MIT, where she obtained degrees in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science and Management Science. She then"
"Clara Seley Clara Kalnitsky Seley (July 15, 1905 – July 2, 2003) was an American artist and sculptor. Born in Kiev, she came to the United States in 1911 and was raised and educated in Newark, New Jersey. Following a career in modeling and later in the rare book departments of Bamberger's department store in Newark and Brentano's Bookstore in New York, she met and married (May 20, 1919 – June 23, 1983), an American sculptor, in 1942. The couple moved to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in January 1946, where Jason would teach under a U. S. Government grant and have three"
"and Mella. The BBC has called her one of the most important women scientists in Latin America. Bonnelly was born on 10 September 1931 in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. Because she wanted to study marine biology and there were no schools teaching biology in the Dominican Republic, she pursued her university studies in New York. In 1953, she enrolled at Columbia University, graduating with a BS in marine biology in 1956. She went on to attain a master's degree from New York University in 1961. After completion of her schooling, Bonnelly began her first job at the New"
"Celi Bee Celi Bee (born Celida Ines Camacho, New York City) is an American disco musician. Bee is a New York-born singer of Puerto Rican Parents. Born in New York, she initially relocated back to Puerto Rico with her parents. There she met Pepe Luis Soto in Puerto Rico in the 1960s and they began making music together. In 1972, she won a festival called Festival De La Voz y La Cancion, with the song, ""Yo Quiero Un Pincel. She was initially popular in Spain, and Puerto Rico where her single, ""Half A Love"", became successful. In 1977 she signed"
"Beth (singer) Elisabeth Rodergas Cols, better known as Beth, (; born 23 December 1981 ) is a Spanish singer and actress. Beth was born in Súria. After finishing school, she studied musical theatre in Barcelona and lived for a time in the United Kingdom, as well as participated in humanitarian missions in Africa. In 2002, she entered the musical talent show ""Operación Triunfo"". She finished third, but in a separate vote was selected by the audience to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003. She finished eighth at Eurovision with the song ""Dime"" (Tell Me), which was a number one"
"- Ao Vivo also includes live versions of Céu's greatest hits, ""Lenda"", ""Malemolência"", ""10 Contados"", ""Cangote"" and ""Baile de Ilusão"". Céu Céu (), whose full name is Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter whose first American album was released on the Six Degrees Records label in April 2007. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil on April 17, 1980, into a musical family, her father being a composer, arranger and musicologist. It was from her father that she learned to appreciate Brazil's classical music composers, particularly Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ernesto Nazaré and Orlando Silva. By age fifteen she"
"was born in Santa Maria Maquixco, Temascalapa, Mexico, in 1923, the daughter of Lorenzo Morales and Candelaria Sanchez. Her father was a farm laborer and her parents were of Indigenous Mexican ancestry. She had nine siblings, including her sister Maria, and her family was poor. Her mother encouraged Morales and her siblings to go to Mexico City to find work. She had extended family already working in Mexico City, including her cousin Petra, and when she first arrived she held odd jobs. She began working as a maid for a rich family, who had their staff living in poor conditions."