Does anyone remember “XUXA”? The Brazilian kids show host

She's gotten old and crazy.

My grandma used to call her Miss Piernas.

I love when the Simpsons go to Brazil and Bart watches Xuxa (at 1:03 and following).

MARGE: "Hmmph! Bert and Ernie left it to your imagination!"

Oh, yeah. I moved to NYC in the early 90s. I had moved from central Ohio, where no one had ever heard of this woman. I moved to New York in 1992 and Xuxa was a big deal. Just about every person who was from Puerto Rico, Mexico or Latin America insisited that she was the new Madonna. So, I bought one of her CDs. Wasn't that great. Watched her show a few times but it was amature hour bullshit for children. I lost interest. She apparently sold millions of cds in Latin and South America, and good for her. She was okay, but ... eh. There was no need for me to buy another of her CDs.

BTW, I had nothing against her. Like I said, she was okay. I just didn't see the big deal. Plus there were a bunch of international women trying to become the new Madonna, including this one, Mitsou:

I liked the Mitsou a little more than Xuxa. She was more like a Canadian Kylie Minogue. But she disappeared quickly in the US. But "Heading West" was also a song on Cyndi Lauper's "A Night to Remember" album, which I LOVE, even though she disowned it (which she was wrong about. -- her best since her debut, IMHO).

She was one of JFK Jr’s hookups, that’s how I remember her.

My mom used to go on and on about how she’s not even pretty lol

She bought a zoo!

I think she ended up getting a US deal and was filming at CBS Television CIty for a bit but it failed to catch on.

Yeah her show came to the USA in 1993

Wasn't their some controversy about her posing for Playboy?

Yes, she posed nude.

Everybody get prizes!!!

I loved her! She had Waylon Jennings on once-so bizarre. She'd end her show by putting on lipstick and choosing a little boy from the audience to kiss. I bought her doll. I was in my 20s.

My sister had her doll too

I lived briefly in Brazil in 1993. I remember watching her children's show and being dumbfounded at how sexualized she was, and she was encouraging young kids to dance provocatively with her. Ole Brasil!

And she would kiss the little boys on the lips.

In the USA version you can tell they made her tone it down and dress less sexy.

Bish, please.

She is the perfect example of white hispanics still having something about their face that looks different from WASPs.

Brazil’s main language is Portuguese so why would this be shown on a Spanish channel???

R21 voice overs. As stated upthread, she was big in Latin and South America

Xuxa speaks Portuguese, Spanish, and learned English in the 90s.

Her original show was in Portuguese but she also did Spanish voice overs for the runs in places like Puerto Rico, Mexico etc. where her show was huge also.

And then when they tried making her happen in the states they brought her here and she had to learn English.

Didn’t she date Pele?

Here is the original series, in Portuguese

Here she is recording in Spanish language.

And then in 1993 they brought her show to America, and it didn’t take off like they thought it would. It didn’t help she couldn’t speak much English and struggled to sing live in English so had to lip sync. In Brazil she sang live.

I lived in South America for a while in the late 1980's and was amazed that a children's show would feature who dressed like a hooker and danced provocatively.

In the US we had Bert and Ernie and Mr. Rogers.