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Adamari López Torres (born May 18, 1971) is a Puerto Rican actress known for participating in several Puerto Rican and Mexican
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. She is currently a host on the Telemundo morning show ''
Hoy Día ''Hoy Día'' (''Today'') is an American Spanish-language morning television show broadcast by Telemundo. The show is broadcast from Telemundo Center in Miami, and is hosted by Adamari López, Penelope Menchaca, Andrea Meza, Lisette Eduardo, an ...
'' and is a Latina ambassador for WW, formerly Weight Watchers.


Early career

The daughter of an undertaker, Luis López, Adamari started her career at the age of six in the
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Canal 2 production of the '' Cristina Bazán'' soap opera, alongside legendary Puerto Rican actress
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and
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n singer
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, ''El Puma''. Her talent indicated a future superstar.
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next chose her to play
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's daughter "Jenny" in '' Yo sé que mentía''. She was a child actress playing an important supporting role in the story, thus became a household name. A short, two chapter appearance on '' Vivir Para Ti'' followed in 1983, and after that, López decided to dedicate herself to her studies. She holds a B.A. in communications from the University of the Sacred Heart.


Adulthood and fame

After reaching the age of maturity, she came back, participating in several plays at Puerto Rico's
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, San Juan's premier and oldest theater, and getting the attention of Mexican producers. She traveled to Mexico next, after the invitation by the producers to try out there, and became a superstar in that country as well, working in many top soap operas, including '' Camila'' and the national super hit ''
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''. López also participated in '' Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real'', where she played a victim of
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that later turned
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.


Recent years

In 2004, López participated in the soap opera '' Mujer de Madera''. During the recording of that soap opera, her father, Luis, a respected and successful undertaker, suffered a
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and had to be hospitalized and operated on. López was given immediate permission to travel to Puerto Rico and be with her father for as long as she needed. Her father recovered, but with only five percent of his heart working. López had to return to Mexico after her father was released from the hospital, but she flew back to Puerto Rico every time that the filming schedule allowed her to. In 2011, she participated in the second season of Univision's dancing show
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where she was one of the top dancers and won the competition.


Personal life and relationships

López was the wife of fellow Puerto Rican singing super star
Luis Fonsi Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero (born April 15, 1978), known by his stage name Luis Fonsi (), is a Puerto Rican singer. He is known for multiple songs, one of them being "Despacito" featuring rapper Daddy Yankee. Fonsi received his first ...
. In 2006, López and Fonsi announced they would be getting married during the summer of that year. They were married on June 3, 2006, in Puerto Rico. On November 8, 2009, Adamari López and Luis Fonsi released a joint statement where they announced they were separating. They were divorced on November 8, 2010. In January 2013 López published a
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, ''Viviendo''. She met Toni Costa while participating in a dance contest called (Look who's dancing) and on September 20, 2014, announced that she was expecting her first child with him, who was now her
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. She gave birth to a girl, Alaïa, on March 4, 2015. In 2019 she and Toni celebrated 8 years together, as a couple. On May 27, 2021, Maria Celeste Arrarás announced in her social media sites that in an interview Adamari López stated she and her partner of 10 years, Toni Costa, had separated.


Health

On March 22, 2005, López held a press conference in San Juan announcing she had been diagnosed with
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. Her then-boyfriend, Luis Fonsi, announced at the same press conference that he was cancelling his 2005 international tour to be by her side. She was expected to recover, as her cancer was caught at "stage 1," which is a very early stage, and it had not spread to other areas of her body. She underwent cancer surgery. In 2006, it was reported that she is in remission. Since being diagnosed, she has campaigned for breast cancer awareness. In 2020, López was a Weight Watchers ambassador.
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welcomed her into the WW community during her 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus tour in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is not connected with keto supplement BTW.


Filmography


Telenovelas


See also

* List of Puerto Ricans *
Luis Fonsi Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero (born April 15, 1978), known by his stage name Luis Fonsi (), is a Puerto Rican singer. He is known for multiple songs, one of them being "Despacito" featuring rapper Daddy Yankee. Fonsi received his first ...
* Cristina Bazán *
Johanna Rosaly Raquel Johanna Rosaly Guillermety (born January 13, 1948) is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, and television host. Early years Johanna Rosaly was born in Santurce, a district of San Juan. In 1956 at the age of eight, she started taking acting l ...


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Official Twitter account
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lopez, Adamari Living people People from Humacao, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican stage actresses Puerto Rican telenovela actresses Puerto Rican expatriates in Mexico 20th-century Puerto Rican actresses 21st-century Puerto Rican actresses 1971 births Universidad del Sagrado Corazón alumni