Cristina!: My Life as a Blonde

by Cristina Saralegui

Book Overview

Meet Cristina the superstar. The granddaughter of the foremost publishing czar in Cuba, she fled as an adolescent to the United States after the revolution. A young woman working her way up through the ranks of the North American-based Spanish-language media, she eventually assumed the reins of Cosmopolitan en Espanol. After ten years with Cosmopolitan, Cristina made the boldest move of her career - creating and hosting El Show de Cristina, the talk show she has developed into the phenomenon seen by 100 million worldwide. Friend and confidante to celebrities both inside and outside the Hispanic world, she also hosts a radio show heard all over Latin America and publishes the magazine Cristina La Revista, read avidly by thousands of fans every month. Meet Cristina the Motivator. Groundbreaker and role model for women everywhere - especially Latinas - she offers advice, based on the life she has lived and the wisdom she has earned, on overcoming racial and sexual discrimination...raising children...keeping a happy marriage...growing older gracefully...and the Winner's Ten Commandments.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044652008X
• ISBN13: 9780446520089
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding

I read this book and I profoundly recommend it. This book gives people that little push we sometimes need to get to where we want to be. I found it to be very inspiring to women in general because she struggled a lot and never gave up. This is how she has reached the point she is at now, which is mere success. I highly recommend it not only as a great book, but as a confidence and self-esteem boost.

Entertaining and good example of/and for the latino women

As a journalist and a latina woman when I read this book I really feel identify with all the troubles that Cristina had to deal altrough her career and with all the cultural things that we bring with us as working latino women that succeed. To all the latino women that want to do something in a country like the US or those who want to be successful in the media, this book its a good reading and encourage, to have an idea of what we can deal with in the same journey. Writing in the same way that Cristina speaks the reading of the book it's quick and entertaining, you simply can't stop reading it.

Excellent

I really enjoyed this book because she spoke of all the struggles she had to face as a woman, wife and as a mother. I really can compare myself in certain things with her because right now I am struggling as a mother and as a wife. But she let me feel that someday I would reach my goal. She gave me an inspiration with this book. I am going to recommend the book to my sister because when I like a book, I usually do that.