Top Model is a Brazilian telenovela produced and aired in the 7pm timeslot by

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, from September 18, 1989 to May 4, 1990. It had 197 chapters. It replaced ''

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'' and was followed by ''Mico Preto''.

Plot

Maria Eduarda "Duda" Pinheiro is a successful

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. After being hired to model ''Covery'' brand clothes, she meets the Kundera brothers, Alex and Gaspar, owners of the company. Gaspar, a former

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, is over 40 but still practices surfing, lives in a beachside house and raises five children: Elvis (named after

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), Ringo (

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), Jane ( Fonda), Olívia ( Newton-John) and (

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) Lennon, all from different mothers who left them with him. Anastácia "Naná" Passos, Duda's friend and mentor, loves him platonically, and rivalizes with Mariza Borges (mother of Gaspar's latest son, whom she named Alex Jr., however) over him. Alex by contrast is a

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. He and their mother Morgana have a love-hate relationship and rivalizes with his brother over Morgana's attention and the company. Alex begins to love Duda, however she falls in love with Lucas, a

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artist who is on the run from the

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police due to his involvement in a crime there. He is also searching for his real father, and thinks it's either Alex or Gaspar.

Cast

References

External links

* 1989 Brazilian television series debuts 1990 Brazilian television series endings 1989 telenovelas TV Globo telenovelas Brazilian telenovelas Portuguese-language telenovelas {{Brazil-tv-prog-stub