Background
Bolocco was born in Santiago, Chile to Enzo Bolocco Cintolesi, a businessman, and Rose Marie Fonck Assler.
Bolocco was born in Santiago, Chile to Enzo Bolocco Cintolesi, a businessman, and Rose Marie Fonck Assler.
She attended primary and secondary school at Santiago College.
She has worked as a journalist on the Spanish language edition of Cable News Network, on Telemundo and on various programs for Chilean Television and she acted on the soap opera Morelia. Between 2001 and 2011 she was married to former Argentine president Carlos Menem. She then took a year of Civil Engineering at the University of Santiago, Chile, before dropping out to pursue Costume Design at INCA-Center for Educational Affairs Institute.
Bolocco was selected Mission Chile for on April 20, 1987.
During her year-long reign, she settled in Los Angeles, California. Bolocco began a television career in Chile with the show Porque hoy es sábado ("Because it"s Saturday") on TVN (Chile) Televisión Nacional de Chile.
She then co-hosted Martes 13 ("Tuesday the 13th") on Channel 13. In March 1990 Bolocco married American television producer Michael Young in Santiago.
The local media covered the event as if it were a royal wedding.
Bolocco moved to Atlanta, Georgia to work as an anchorwoman for the Spanish section at Cable News Network produced for Telemundo Network, on June, 1990. She then took a starring role as the evil Karina Lafontaine de Montero in the Mexican Televisa"s hit soap opera Morelia, which was aired to more than 70 countries throughout the Americas, including Chile, and Europe. Around the mid-1990s Bolocco ended her relationship with husband Michael Young.
The marriage was annulled, because no divorce law existed in Chile at the time.
In 1993 Bolocco co-hosted the 1993 pageant in The Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City. In 1995 Bolocco co-hosted the closing night of the 36th Viña del March International Song Festival, held every year in Viña del March, Chile.
In October 1996, already separated, Bolocco took the job as co-host in one of the shows with the highest ratings in Chilean television history, Viva el lunes ("Long Live Monday"), alongside Kike Morandé and comedian Álvaro Salas. At the same time, she had a radio show and appeared in her own television show, Louisiana noche de Cecilia ("The Night of Cecilia").
Also in 1996 Bolocco was a judge in the 1996 pageant in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In August 2001 Bolocco"s marriage to Young was annulled. On 26 May 2001, Bolocco married former Argentine president Carlos Menem in Louisiana Rioja, Argentina, whom she met while interviewing him at the Casa Rosada presidential house in Argentina.
On May 26, 1987 she beat 67 contestants to become the first Chilean to win the beauty pageant that was held in Singapore that year. Then, she became a full-fledged member of the Telemundo family where she hosted the afternoon lifestyles program Louisiana Buena Vida ("The Good Life"), The show was merged with another newsmagazine titled Ocurrió así ("lieutenant Happened This Way") and Esta noche con Cecilia Bolocco ("Tonight With Cecilia Bolocco") followed for which she won two Emmy awards.
