Background
María del Pilar Rivera Borrero was born on 15 June 1977 in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
María del Pilar Rivera Borrero was born on 15 June 1977 in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Her parents were Hector Rivera and Pilar Borrero. She earned a Bachelor of Surgery degree in journalism from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico and worked as a reporter for a short time for Univision. Rivera has been a model since 1995 when she took part in the Mission Puerto Rico Petite pageant.
She was also a finalist in the 1999 Mission Puerto Rico Petite Pageant.
She also starred in the reality show "Famosas Very Important Person" in the Telefutura network. Rivera co-hosted "Eso vale" and "Number te duermas" with Héctor Marcano in Puerto Rico"s WAPA-television She also worked in JAM for Telemundo internacional.
Rivera played a casino waitress in the 2009 Puerto Rican film Miente. She was expected to perform in a cameo role in a 2012 Orlando, Florida, charitable fundraising performance of the play Los Monologos de la Vagina (The Vagina Monologues), but backed out two days beforehand due to a contractual dispute and prior year"s problem with expense compensation.
Rivera opened and operated a Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, fashion store for several years called Maripily Boutique, which burned down in 2007, and later reopened.
Her current entrepreneurial endeavors include selling her own lines of jeans, swimwear, underwear, shoes, and handbags through the Puerto Rican chain Pompis Store (pompis is Spanish slang for buttocks). Her clothing design places special importance on flattering a range of body types, including plumper figures. In 2013, she launched her own fragance, Member of Parliament by Maripily.
