| Marcela Temer | |
| Office: | First Lady of Brazil |
| Term Label: | In role |
| Term Start: | 31 August 2016 |
| Term End: | 1 January 2019 |
| President: | Michel Temer |
| Predecessor: | Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva |
| Successor: | Michelle Bolsonaro |
| Office1: | Second Lady of Brazil |
| Term Label1: | In role |
| Term Start1: | 1 January 2011 |
| Term End1: | 31 August 2016 |
| 1Blankname1: | Vice President |
| 1Namedata1: | Michel Temer |
| Predecessor1: | Mariza Gomes |
| Successor1: | Paula Mourão |
| Birth Name: | Marcela Tedeschi de Araújo |
| Birth Date: | 16 May 1983 |
| Birth Place: | Paulínia, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Party: | MDB |
| Children: | Michel (b. 2009) |
| Alma Mater: | FADISP |
Marcela Tedeschi de Araújo Temer (born 16 May 1983) is the wife of Michel Temer, the 37th President of Brazil, She served as the 36th First Lady of Brazil, from 31 August 2016 until 1 January 2019. She also served as the Second Lady of Brazil from 2011 to 2016. As first lady, she worked on social policies for children, having been an Ambassador for the Happy Child Program.[1]
Marcela was born and raised in Paulínia. She graduated from the Autonomous Faculty of Law (FADISP).[2] She was Miss Paulínia and Vice-Miss São Paulo.[3]
Marcela Tedeschi Araújo was born on 16 May 1983 in Paulínia, São Paulo, to Carlos Antônio de Araújo and Norma Tedeschi. After graduating from the Escola Estadual Porphyrio da Paz, in her native Paulínia, Marcela worked as a receptionist for the newspaper O Momento. In 2002, at the age of nineteen, she won the title of Miss Paulínia, then moving on to share the state title as Miss São Paulo.[4] [5]
In 2003, she married Michel Temer, with whom she has a son, Michel Filho.[6]
In 2002, Marcela accompanied her uncle Geraldo, a Paulínia municipal employee, to the annual political convention of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB). While there, Marcela met Michel Temer, a politician forty-three years her senior.[7] The couple married on 26 July 2003, in a small ceremony.[8]
In 2009, Marcela graduated with a law degree from Fadisp, a private school in São Paulo. In an interview, Marcela says that she never took the licensing exam because of the birth of the couple's son Michel (often referred to by his nickname "Michelzinho").[9] [10]
In the 2011 presidential inauguration, she drew national and international attention for her beauty and 43 year age difference with her husband, which had led her throughout his terms as vice president to remain reserved and out of the spotlight until Michel became president, when she took charge of social causes.[11]
On 12 May 2016, Brazilian police arrested three people for attempting to extort money from Marcela after they hacked her personal Internet account.[12]
The Brazilian weekly magazine Veja featured a profile of Marcela Temer in their 18 April 2016 issue.[13] The title, "Bela, recatada, e do lar'" (translated as "beautiful, demure, and a housewife") portrayed Marcela as a feminine helpmate. Almost immediately, Brazilian feminists, outraged by the transition from the country's first female president Dilma Rousseff to a more conservative government, responded on social media by posting memes of themselves that questioned Marcela as a role model for Brazilian womanhood.[14]
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