Marcela Temer
{{short description|First Lady of Brazil from 2016 to 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
{{Portuguese name|Tedeschi|Araújo}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Marcela Temer
| image = Marcela Temer em setembro de 2016.jpg
| office = First Lady of Brazil
| imagesize =
| caption = Temer in 2016
| term_label = In role
| term_start = 31 August 2016
| term_end = 1 January 2019
| president = Michel Temer
| predecessor = Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva
| successor = Michelle Bolsonaro
| office1 = Second Lady of Brazil
| term_label1 = In role
| term_start1 = 1 January 2011
| term_end1 = 31 August 2016
| 1blankname1 = Vice President
| 1namedata1 = Michel Temer
| predecessor1 = Mariza Gomes
| successor1 = Paula Mourão
| birth_name = Marcela Tedeschi de Araújo
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|5|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = Paulínia, São Paulo, Brazil
| party = MDB
| spouse = {{marriage|Michel Temer|2003}}
| children = Michel (b. 2009)
| alma_mater = FADISP
}}
Marcela Tedeschi de Araújo Temer (born 16 May 1983) is the wife of Michel Temer, the 37th President of Brazil, She served as the 36th First Lady of Brazil, from 31 August 2016 until 1 January 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www2.planalto.gov.br/mandatomicheltemer/acompanhe-planalto/noticias/2017/05/marcela-temer-apresenta-programa-crianca-feliz-para-estrangeiros|title=Marcela Temer apresenta programa Criança Feliz para estrangeiros}}
Marcela was born and raised in Paulínia. She graduated from the Autonomous Faculty of Law (FADISP).{{Cite web|url=https://www.escavador.com/sobre/6640730/marcela-tedeschi-a|title = Marcela Tedeschi A}} She was Miss Paulínia and Vice-Miss São Paulo.{{Cite web|url=https://extra.globo.com/famosos/conheca-um-pouco-da-vice-primeira-dama-marcela-temer-da-irma-fernanda-tedeschi-2509564.html|title=Conheça um pouco da vice-primeira-dama Marcela Temer e da irmã Fernanda Tedeschi|date=23 August 2011}}
Early life
Marcela Tedeschi Araújo was born on 16 May 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.{{cite web |url=http://extra.globo.com/famosos/conheca-um-pouco-da-vice-primeira-dama-marcela-temer-da-irma-fernanda-tedeschi-2509564.html |title=Conheça um pouco da vice-primeira-dama Marcela Temer e da irmã Fernanda Tedeschi |publisher=Extra – Famosos |date=23 August 2011 |access-date=29 March 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,paulinia-torce-por-marcela-no-alvorada,10000027747 |title=Paulínia torce por Marcela na Alvorada |publisher=Estadão |date=24 April 2016 |access-date=24 April 2016}}
Public life
File:Marcela Temer e a Rainha Sílvia da Suécia.jpg in the Itamaraty Palace, Brasília, April 2017]]
In 2003, she married Michel Temer, with whom she has a son, Michel Filho.{{Cite web|url=http://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,para-marcela-temer-diferenca-de-idade-para-o-marido-nao-importa,661445|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225012706/http://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,para-marcela-temer-diferenca-de-idade-para-o-marido-nao-importa,661445|archive-date=25 February 2018|title=Para Marcela Temer, diferença de idade para o marido não importa - Política}}
In 2002, Marcela accompanied her uncle Geraldo, a Paulínia municipal employee, to the annual political convention of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB). While there, Marcela met Michel Temer, a politician forty-three years her senior.{{Cite web|url=http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/brasil/bela-recatada-e-do-lar|title=Marcela Temer: bela, recatada e "do lar" {{!}} VEJA.com|last=Linhares|first=Juliana|website=VEJA.com|access-date=16 May 2016}} The couple married on 26 July 2003, in a small ceremony.{{cite web |url=http://www.terra.com.br/istoegente/210/reportagens/michel_temer.htm |title=Foi uma atração forte |publisher=IstoÉ Gente |date=11 August 2003 |access-date=21 April 2016}}
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 (often referred to by his nickname "Michelzinho").{{cite web |url=http://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,para-marcela-temer-diferenca-de-idade-para-o-marido-nao-importa,661445 |title=Para Marcela Temer, diferença de idade para o marido não importa |publisher=Estadão |date=3 January 2011 |access-date=21 April 2016}}{{cite web |url=https://archive.today/http://dc.clicrbs.com.br/sc/noticias/noticia/2016/04/entenda-a-polemica-apos-materia-com-perfil-de-marcela-temer-5783059.html |title=Entenda a polêmica após matéria com perfil de Marcela Temer |publisher=Diário Catarinense |date=20 April 2016 |access-date=21 April 2016}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/temer-quer-mulher-longe-dos-holofotes-2842264|title = Temer quer mulher longe dos holofotes|date = 4 January 2011}}
Controversies
File:Michel Temer attends the 2016 BRICS summit in Goa, India (5).jpg, India]]
On 12 May 2016, Brazilian police arrested three people for attempting to extort money from Marcela after they hacked her personal Internet account.{{Cite news|agency=Reuters|date=12 May 2016|title=Hacker Arrested for Attempted Extortion of Brazil Interim President's Wife|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/05/12/world/americas/12reuters-brazil-politics-arrests.html|url-status=dead|access-date=17 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512201436/https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/05/12/world/americas/12reuters-brazil-politics-arrests.html|archive-date=12 May 2016|issn=0362-4331}}
The Brazilian weekly magazine Veja featured a profile of Marcela Temer in their 18 April 2016 issue.{{Cite web|url=http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/brasil/bela-recatada-e-do-lar|title=Marcela Temer: bela, recatada e "do lar" {{!}} VEJA.com|last=Linhares|first=Juliana|website=VEJA.com|access-date=24 May 2016}} The title, "Bela, recatada, e do lar'" (translated as "beautiful, demure, and a housewife") portrayed Marcela as a feminine helpmate. Almost immediately, Brazilian feminists, outraged by the transition from the country's first female president Dilma 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/shannonsims/2016/04/20/the-hilarious-feminist-backlash-to-brazils-impeachment-fallout/#1848499f59fa|title=The Hilarious Feminist Backlash To Brazil's Impeachment Fallout|last=Sims|first=Shannon|website=Forbes|access-date=24 May 2016}}
See also
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