Marcela Tedeschi Araújo Temer is the wife of the 37th President of Brazil, Michel Temer, having served as the 36th First Lady of Brazil, from August 31, 2016 until January 1 from 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. She was Miss Paulínia and Vice-Miss São Paulo. In 2003, she married Michel Temer, with whom she has a son, 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. In 2016, she was considered the most beautiful first lady in the world, according to the American press and several analysts, with names such as the queens Rania of Jordan and Letizia of Spain. Discreet, she was admired for the beauty and charm she carried, and she was also considered one of the most beautiful presidential wives, alongside Melania Trump, Angélica Rivera and Juliana Awada.
Early life
Marcela Tedeschi Araújo was born on May 16, 1983 in Paulínia, São Paulo, 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. In 2002, Marcela accompanied her uncle Geraldo, a Paulínia municipal employee, to the annual political convention of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party. While there, Marcela met Michel Temer, a politician forty-three years her senior. The couple married on July 26, 2003, in a small ceremony. In 2009, Marcela graduated with a law degree from Fadisp, a private school in São Paulo. In an interview, Marcela says that she never took the licensing exam because of the birth of the couple's son Michel.
Controversies
On May 12, 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 April 18, 2016 issue. The title, "Bela, recatada, e do lar'" portrayed Marcela as a feminine helpmeet. Almost immediately, Brazilian feminists, outraged by the transition from the country's first female presidentDilma Rousseff to a more conservative government, responded on social media by posting memes of themselves that questioned Marcela as a role model for Brazilian womanhood.
