Editing María Antonieta Collins

{{short description|Mexican journalist and author}}
{{BLP sources|date=October 2010}}
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| name               = María Antonieta Collins Flores
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| caption            = María Antonieta Collins Flores
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1952|5|12|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[Coatzacoalcos]], [[Veracruz]], Mexico
| birth_name         = María Antonieta Collins Flores
| other_names        = La Chaparrona
| occupation         = {{hlist|Journalist|hostess|writer}}
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'''María Antonieta Collins Flores''' (born 12 May 1952) is a Mexican journalist, television host and author. She is the winner of four [[Emmy Award]]s and the [[RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award|Edward Murrow Award]].

== Biography ==
Collins became known to viewers in her native Mexico as a reporter of ''"Televisa 24 horas"'' (1974), Noticiero con [[Jacobo Zabludovsky]]. In 1979 Collins was sent by [[Televisa]] as their first correspondent in [[California]] where she began as a general assignment journalist also covering baseball in the [[Major League Baseball|Major Leagues]] with the [[San Diego Padres]] and the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]], job she did until 1986. Later that year, Collins was transferred to Spanish International Network (SIN) the network later named Univision. In eighteen years in [[Univision]] Network, Collins was well known for her job as a Mexico Correspondent, [[Texas]] Correspondent, and International Correspondent.

After Univision, Collins went to Telemundo where she hosted the morning show ''"Cada Dia".''

In 1993, she was appointed as the successor of [[María Celeste Arrarás]] as the weekend anchor of Noticiero Univision, covering [[Jorge Ramos (news anchor)|Jorge Ramos]] and [[María Elena Salinas]] while they were out.

In 1999, Collins convinced her friend [[Juanita Castro]], the younger sister of [[Fidel Castro|Fidel]] and [[Raúl Castro]], to co-write and publish Juanita's autobiography in Spanish edition: ''My brothers Fidel and Raúl, the secret story''. The book was finally published in October 2009.<ref>Fidel y Raúl mis hermanos, la historia secreta. Juanita Castro y María Antonieta Collins. Editorial Aguilar, octubre 2009.</ref>

In 2000, was named Senior Correspondent for the news magazine "Aqui y Ahora" position that with Noticiero Univision fin de semana hold it until she left the network in August 2005.

Her 2003 book, ''Cuando el monstruo despierta'', spoke about [[domestic violence]]. Writing this book was an emotional experience for Collins, as she revealed that her own daughter, [[Antonietta Collins]], had been a victim of domestic violence by a former boyfriend.

In an article in [[People en Español]] (March 2008), Collins announced that she would be leaving Telemundo when her contract expired in August 2008 and that she wished to return to anchoring news.

She also writes a weekly editorial column for [http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldemexico/notas/s196.htm "El Sol de Mexico"] network and its sixty newspapers in Mexico.

==Personal life==
Collins and [[María Celeste Arrarás]] are both animal rights activists.

She studies and plays (classical) piano.

Collins underwent [[plastic surgery]] in 2004 and has spoken extensively about it.<ref>{{Citation|last=Univision Noticias|title=El proceso de la transformación de María Antonieta Collins|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lw-aLAyVeE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/0Lw-aLAyVeE| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2018-12-08}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

== Selected publications ==
* ''Dietas y Recetas de María Antonieta'' (Grijalbo/Random House 2001)
* ''¿Quién dijo que no se puede?'' (Grijalbo/Random House 2002)
* ''Cuando el monstruo despierta'' (Grijalbo/Random House 2003)
* ''En el nombre de comprar, firmar...y no llorar'' (Rayo/HarperCollins 2004)
* ''Cómo lidiar con los ex hombres, mujeres, y fantasmas del pasado'' (Rayo/HarperCollins 2006)
* ''"Dijiste que me querías" : cómo sobrellevar lo impensable'' (Rayo/HarperCollins 2007)
* ''Porque quiero, porque puedo y porque me da la gana'' (Rayo 2009)
* ''¿Muerta?... ¡Pero de la risa!'' (Vintage Español 2014)

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.mariaantonietacollins.com Official website]
* [http://tv.telemundo.yahoo.com/cadadiama/index.html Cada Dia con Maria Antonieta Collins]
* {{IMDb name|nm1480887}}
* [http://www.peopleenespanol.com/pespanol/articles/0,22490,1729979,00.html  People en Espanol]
* [http://www.harpercollins.com/search/index.aspx?kw=maria%20antonieta%20collins  Harper-Collins]

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