Alicia Machado
Alicia Machado is a beauty model, queen, actor as well as an actor. She was born Yoseph Alicia Machado at Maracay in Venezuela, on December 6th in 1976. Alicia comes from a wide background with her father Spanish, and her mother is from Cuban descendance. She has been a well-known figure on television and beauty contests. Alicia Machado rose to fame in the year she was named Miss Venezuela at age 19 representing Yaracuy. A year later she was the fourth Venezuelan woman to win Miss Universe 1996. Her tenure as Miss Universe however was marked by negative media coverage and controversy because of the fact that she gained weight. Donald Trump who was the Miss Universe Organization's CEO at that time publicly made fun of her weight increase. He insulted her by calling her "Miss Piggy" and forced her to perform exercises in front of media. The incident ignited a feud which lasted for several years with Alicia Trump.



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