Bárbara Palacios
Bárbara Palacios Teyde de Manrique (born 9 December 1963) is a Venezuelan TV host, writer, Christian preacher and beauty queen. She is the third woman from Venezuela to win the Miss Universe pageant on 21 July 1986 held in Panama. Early life Palacios was born in Madrid to parents Bárbara Teyde (born María Antonia Hernández; 13 April 1942, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain — died 10 September 2008, Caracas, Venezuela) and Jorge Palacios (born 1940, Seville, Spain), who later divorced. Her parents were both actors. They moved to Caracas in the mid-1960s when Palacios was one and a half years old, and, according to the laws of the time, of the South American country, she was considered a Venezuelan national. As she relates in her book presented in 2019, Atrévete a ser Bárbara (Dare to be Barbara), who was a member of a "dysfunctional family", with situations of domestic violence, where she had a childhood and adolescence full of abuse and mistreatment: "There was abuse in general, there was physical abuse, a hit, and also verbal and emotional abuse". Career Barbara's first approach with Miss Venezuela was when she was barely twelve years old, when, in the company of her mother,