{"id":1681,"date":"2007-12-10T21:47:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T04:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2007-12-10T21:50:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T04:38:01","slug":"marines-vote-model-mayra-veronica-their-favorite-pin-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"Marines Vote Model Mayra Veronica Their Favorite Pin-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was interviewed Monday night on the O&#8217;Reilly Show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mayra_Veronica\">From Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayra Ver&oacute;nica<\/strong> (born <strong>Mayra Ver&oacute;nica Aruca Rodr&iacute;guez<\/strong> on <a title=\"August 20\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_20\">August 20<\/a>, <a title=\"1980\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1980\">1980<\/a> in <a title=\"Havana\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Havana\">Havana<\/a>, <a title=\"Cuba\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba\">Cuba<\/a>), is a <a title=\"Cubans\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cubans\">Cuban<\/a> model and celebrity who was born in Cuba but acquired her fame in the <a title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mayra is the youngest of two children of Mayra Rodr&iacute;guez and Arturo Aruca. Her oldest sister Giselle Guzm&aacute;n is seventeen years her senior from a different father. Mayra&#8217;s father was a famous singer and musician in Cuba for the top rock band of the times &quot;Los Dada&quot; a name derived from the popular art movement <a title=\"Dadaism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dadaism\">Dadaism<\/a>. Mayra arrived from Cuba at the age of 4 with her mother. Once in America the two struggled without any money living in shelters until Mayra&#8217;s father arrived. Upon his arrival the three settled in small studio apartments throughout her childhood. The relationship between the parents was severely strained, resulting in a very difficult childhood and early adolescence for Mayra. She was later trained in classical dance, organic acting, voice, and ultimately graduated from <a title=\"Florida International University\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florida_International_University\">Florida International University<\/a> with a Psychology degree and minor in Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Mayra first became noticed on Univision&#8217;s <a title=\"Don Francisco\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don_Francisco\">Don Francisco<\/a> Presenta where her role as the model with the voluptuous body caught the attention of <a title=\"FHM\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FHM\">FHM<\/a> magazine US edition. After appearing in FHM she was included in its 2004 calendar and went on to do the covers and feature spreads to <a title=\"Smooth\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smooth\">Smooth<\/a>, <a title=\"King (magazine)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King_%28magazine%29\">King<\/a>, Edge Magazine, <a title=\"Maxim (magazine)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maxim_%28magazine%29\">Maxim<\/a>, <a title=\"Open Your Eyes\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_Your_Eyes\">Open Your Eyes<\/a>, was chosen as the Cover for FHM&#8217;s Exclusive Collection Book, and was included amongst top A listers on the cover of Smoke Magazine, a magazine that had never previously been graced by a Cuban woman only American Oscar winners. She made appearances on many Spanish language television shows and won the audiences favorite after they voted following her appearance on (<a title=\"El Gordo y la Flaca\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/El_Gordo_y_la_Flaca\">El Gordo y la Flaca<\/a>) Mayra appeared as the lead to Frankie J&#8217;s hit video (Pensando en Ti) and did countless national commercials including a <a title=\"Nike, Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nike%2C_Inc.\">Nike<\/a> Campaign with <a title=\"Lebron James\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lebron_James\">Lebron James<\/a>, <a title=\"Loreal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loreal\">Loreal<\/a>, <a title=\"Ford\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ford\">Ford<\/a>, <a title=\"Burger King\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burger_King\">Burger King<\/a>, <a title=\"Coca Cola\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coca_Cola\">Coca Cola<\/a>, She continued making waves on Don Francisco Presenta where hers became the top selling calendar in &#8216;2005 according to the <a title=\"Univision\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Univision\">Univision<\/a> Network. She was on Spanish news indiscriminately for dating <a title=\"Donald Trump\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s partner Gil Dezer and after that for suing a strip club after they unlawfully used her pictures. During that time Mayra worked on a solo Spanish Album whose single &quot;Vengo Con To&#8217; earned her a spot on New York&#8217;s top 10 at La Mega in Oct of 2006 and was interviewed by top entertainment shows including <a title=\"Extra (TV series)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extra_%28TV_series%29\">Extra<\/a>. The album, produced by Kike Santander and Roy Tavares made headlines on King magazine where it stated &quot;Mayra Veronica&#8217;s moaning makes Madonna&#8217; Erotica sound like Bubble gum Pop&#8230; chew on that <a title=\"Daddy Yankee\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daddy_Yankee\">Daddy Yankee<\/a>&quot; Her body and voice were used as a character for the 2007 video game, <a title=\"Def Jam: Icon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Def_Jam:_Icon\">Def Jam: Icon<\/a>. Mayra currently inked a multi-million dollar record deal with CMG\/UNIVERSAL MOTOWN and is preparing for her English release next year.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was interviewed Monday night on the O&#8217;Reilly Show. From Wikipedia: Mayra Ver&oacute;nica (born Mayra Ver&oacute;nica Aruca Rodr&iacute;guez on August 20, 1980 in Havana, Cuba), is a Cuban model and celebrity who was born in Cuba but acquired her fame &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1681\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}