Adriana Arboleda
Adriana Arboleda Restrepo (Cali, August 8, 1978) is a Colombian model, presenter and businesswoman.
Biography
Adriana Arboleda was born in Cali on August 8, 1978, into a prestigious Colombian family.
She began her modeling career at the age of fifteen. She was the winner of the Model of the Year contest in 1995, and a year later she was named Look of the Year . She has been on the cover of magazines such as Vanidades and Cosmopolitan . In addition, she was the official image of Café de Colombia.
Adriana also dabbled in acting in 2000, in the Colombian telenovela I am Betty, the ugly one.
Her debut as a show host was on the Noticiero CM& in 2003, although she had already appeared on programs such as Panorama, Persiana americana and QAP News. A few months later, she went on to present the entertainment section at Noticias Caracol ) at seven o'clock at night, along with Lina Marulanda. When the latter left the newscast, Adriana switched to the noon broadcast in the Noticias del Otro Mundo section, accompanied by Iván Lalinde. In the primetime broadcast she was with Catalina Gómez. She then presented the program Espacio Vital on the cable channel Discovery Home and Health in a duo with Úrsula Vargues.
On July 7, 2007, Adriana presented with Manolo Bellon, the Colombian television broadcast of Live Earth. In 2010, in association with designer Johanna Ortiz, she launched Pink Filosofy , a line of women's clothing, for which they were awarded in 2011 as revelation designers at the Cromos de la Moda Awards. For 2013 she did one with Almacenes Éxito to design the line Arkitect by Pink Filosofy .
Family
Adriana is the daughter of Francisco Arboleda Lora and Marta Eugenia Restrepo Arango.
Ancestry
His great-great-grandfather, Alfonso Arboleda Valencia, was the son of Colombian politician and educator Sergio Arboleda Pombo, who was also the brother of conservative politician Julio Arboleda Pombo. The Arboleda brothers were descendants of Spanish-Irish royalty, and among their ancestors were Irishman Calvagh O'Donnell, Spanish Enrique José O'Donnell and his nephew Leopoldo O'Donnell.
On the other hand, the Arboleda Pombos were related to Miguel de Pombo, Lino de Pombo and Lino's son, the poet Rafael Pombo Rebolledo. Another ancestor of the Arboledas was the hero of the Independence Antonio Arboleda y Arrachea, who was married to the great-granddaughter of the nobleman Pedro Agustín de Valencia, from whom the Valencias of Popayán descend.
To make matters worse in the inbred lines of the family, Sergio Arboleda, the father of Adriana Arboleda's great-great-grandfather, was Antonio Arboleda's great-nephew by being the son of his brother Julián Arboleda; and he would also become a distant descendant of Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera and his brothers Joaquín, and the twins Manuel María and Manuel José Mosquera y Arboleda.
Marriages
Adriana Arboleda married actor and singer Alejandro Martínez García at the age of 20, whom she divorced three years later. In 2005, she had a relationship with the photographer Mauricio Vélez. Since 2009 she has been married to Harold Éder.
Soap Operas
- I'm Betty, the ugly one. (2000)