Xuxa

Xuxa (real name Maria da Graça Meneghel) born March 27 1963 in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul is a Brazilian television actress and singer. She is a children's television show host and has had shows in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. In 1993, Xuxa's show, Xuxa, premiered in English syndication but was cancelled soon thereafter in 1994.

From Sex Symbol to Children Idol

By the time she started as a children show host, Xuxa was a sex symbol in Brazil, doing the cover for several adult magazines, like Playboy, Status and Ele & Ela. She owes part of her initial celebrity status to an affair she had with Pelé.

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Sex symbol - Brazil - Adult magazine - Playboy - Celebrity - Pelé

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At the time, she did some very controversial movies. like the drama Amor, Estranho Amor (Love, Weird Love) where she was a prostitute who seduced a 13 year old boy. Some scenes with underage actors in this movie would not be allowed by current Brazilian laws covering child pornography. However, her subsequent embarrassment at the films meant that she went to court to prevent Amor, Estranho Amor being released in VHS in the mid-90s.

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Prostitute - Underage - Child pornography

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In her children's shows, she constantly wore tight clothes showing her belly, legs, and even parts of her buttocks, and in her first LP (also targeted at children), she revealed her breasts on the cover by wearing a see-through shirt.

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Belly - Legs - Buttocks - LP - Breast - Shirt

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