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Xuxa is a children's television show host and has had shows in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. In 1993, Xuxa's show, Xuxa, premiered in English syndication but was cancelled soon thereafter in 1994.

Xuxa became the first Brazilian to appear on Forbes Magazine's list of richest artists in 1991, in 37th place with an annual gross income of $19 million.

Xuxa has dated soccer star Pelé and the late Ayrton Senna, both regarded as important figures in Brazil.

Xuxa started her career performing at the Clube da Criança. She graced the centerfold of Playboy magazine's Brazilian edition in December 1982, which led to a role in a movie. She was famous because she was dating Pele and was a model, even appearing naked in several magazines in the early 1980's. Xou da Xuxa, a weekday morning show that featured musical performances, games, guests and cartoons was very popular. It ran from 1986 to 1993, with the last show being an emotionally-charged special that featured her dad. This was special because a case of infidelity on the part of her father, had led Xuxa to go public with the news and break off contact with him for several years.

Later she hosted a game show and sitcom, and in the mid 1990's hosted two more shows: Planeta Xuxa (Xuxa Planet), a teenage show with Xuxa playing a very controversial role in which she would interview stars about their sex lives. Xuxa Park, a modern version of Xou da Xuxa also had a brief run. Both shows had good ratings but were cancelled after a fire at Xuxa Park sent several kids to the hospital.

Recovered, Xuxa began the Xuxa Só para Baixinhos series (Xuxa Just for Kids), putting out CDs and a DVD with video clips of the songs. Due to their popularity, she began her first tour since her show, Xou da Xuxa had ended. She won a Grammy for the 1st Xuxa Só para Baixinhos album and another for the 2nd. Currently there are five albums in the series with a sixth due shortly. The resemblance of many segments of the video productions of para Baixinhos to earlier Australian and American children's shows is noticeable, in some cases duplicating English language sequences shot-for-shot. How formal the connections between Xuxa's para Baixinhos productions are to these earlier shows is unclear; however, the most recently released para Baixinhos 5 does acknowledge a licensing arrangement with Sony for the Portuguese version of the High 5 America song So Many Animals.

Xuxa began another children's show, Xuxa No Mundo da Imaginação (Xuxa at the World of Imagination) (2001), a show for preschool kids on weekday mornings. Marlene Matos, Xuxa's manager since the 80's and best friend, was against the idea because she thought doing a teenage-oriented show was better, so they had a fight and went their separate ways. The ratings at the beginning were good but later began to decline. The show was cancelled in 2004. But Xuxa, being one of the most popular TV personalities couldn't be fired, so a new show premiered, TV Xuxa, with more cartoons and educational content and less Xuxa.

Xuxa's personal life was always very public and sometimes a little scandalous. She had a daughter in 1998 and the birth was televised live. Her maternal habits are constantly criticized because some people say she spoils her daughter too much (giving her a $1,000,000 party and closing a theme park for another one). Sasha, Xuxa's daughter, studies at Brazil's most expensive school, the bilingual Escola Americana do Rio de Janeiro (EARJ - American School of Rio de Janeiro) with a tuition of about $2,000 per month.

From Sex Symbol to Children's Idol
By the time she started as a children show host, Xuxa was a sex symbol in Brazil, doing the cover for several adult magazines, like Playboy, Status and Ele & Ela. She owes part of her initial celebrity status to an affair she had with Pelé.

At the time, she did some very controversial movies. like the drama Amor, Estranho Amor (Love, Weird Love) where she was a prostitute who seduced a 13 year old boy. Some scenes with underage actors in this movie would not be allowed by current Brazilian laws covering child pornography. However, her subsequent embarrassment at the films meant that she went to court to prevent Amor, Estranho Amor being released in VHS in the mid-90s.

In her children's shows, she constantly wore tight clothes showing her belly, legs, and even parts of her buttocks, and in her first LP (also targeted at children), she revealed her breasts on the cover by wearing a see-through shirt.

Actress
Xuxa is also an actress, and together with comedy group Os Trapalhões she has the 9 biggest Box Office hits in Brazilian history.

She had guest roles in four of these films, before having her own show, and with these movies she became known among kids (she was already a celebrity and a sex symbol).

In 1988, her peak, she did the highly successful movie 'Super Xuxa Contra o Baixo Astral', that featured her hit song 'Arco-Íris' (Rainbow), a hit in the whole Latin America. It was the biggest Box Office sell-out of the year.

In 1989 she starred for the first time in a movie with Os Trapalhões in A Princesa Xuxa e Os Trapalhões (Princess Xuxa and The Messed-Up Guys), which was another hit.

The following year, she starred in two movies: Xuxa e os Trapalhões em 'O Mistério de Robin Hood' (Xuxa and The Messed-Up Guys in 'The Mystery of Robin Hood') and Lua de Cristal (Crystal Moon) her biggest box office hit ever, which spawned her hit single 'Lua de Cristal'.

It was her last movie for a while, until 1999 with Xuxa Requebra (Xuxa in Shake It), a movie that was a critical flop but a big hit with the audience. Targeted at teenagers, the movie was still a hit with the audience and next year, a movie in the same style (no story line, lots of advertisements, lots of popular actors/groups/singers making cameos) was made: XUXA POPSTAR.

Then, in 2001 she did her first children's movie for twelve years, Xuxa e os Duendes. A fantasy movie, it not only had lots of cameos, but also a story line, and no advertisements, a first for Xuxa's movie. The movie was a hit and a sequel was made for the following year.

In 2003 she did another fantasy movie, Xuxa em Abracadabra and in 2004, Xuxa e o Tesouro da Cidade Perdida (Xuxa and the Treasure of the Lost City). As of 2005, Xuxa is about to release her first animated movie.

International Career
In the 90s, Xuxa became very popular in the whole of Latin America, widening her appeal among Spanish-speaking audiences, when she recorded a programme in Argentina, Show de Xuxa, which was also popular when broadcast in Chile, Mexico and other 16 Latin American countries. She also recorded a programme in Spain in 1992, Xuxa Park, which achieved a huge success.

In 1993 Xuxa hosted an English language series in the United States, but it did not achieve the popularity conquered throughtout Latin America and Spain. Xuxa did not master the English language, which was the greatest barrier to success. However, the show was sold to countless of countries throughout the world, among them Japan, Israel, Russia and some Arab countries.

During 1992, Xuxa was taping 20 hours of 'Xou da Xuxa' in three days and then she went to Argentina and taped another 20 hours for 'El Show de Xuxa'. In 1993, she decide to pursue an international career, and both shows were cancelled.

During the year she taped Xuxa Park, in Spain. The theme song of the show spent 8 weeks on the top of the charts and her CD received a gold certification. She also taped in a month, 22 episodes of XUXA, the American version of her show which was only 30 minutes long. But, after she had to stay at the hospital for several days because of exhaustion, she decided to stop her international career.

Brazilian Icon
Xuxa is a Brazilian icon, who was part of the childhood of many young people born in the 80s and 90s. She is still popular with children today, who listen to her CD collection 'Só Para Baixinhos'.

Her 3rd album is the best-selling album in Brazilian history, selling almost 4 million copies. The album included the hit Ilarie, which went to Number 1 in the whole Latin America and it was the bestselling single and most-played song on the radio in 1989.

She had an infinity of licensed products since the 80s, from bubble gums to televisions. Shampoos, soaps, food, books, clothes, shoes, dolls, toys, video games, board games and almost everything with her face in it was sold in Brazilian stores and in the rest of Latin America, too.

Her revealing clothes were not a big controversy in Brazil, which has traditionally been more relaxed about nudity than North America or Western Europe, and most of Brazilians didn't see anything wrong with the clothes she wore.

Xuxa is one of the richest Brazilian entertainers. Ahead of her, only Silvio Santos, who is the presenter of lots of shows from the number 2-net: SBT. But, while Xuxa is just a TV personality, Silvio Santos is also the owner of SBT. Xuxa is richer than Roberto Carlos, the best-selling artist ever in Brazil.

Xuxa is a very polemic figure. She's usually on the covers of the most important magazines in Brazil and she talks too much about personal issues and sometimes make stupid statements.

In 1991, she was one of the 40 Best Paid Celebrities in the World according to Forbes. She and Julio Iglesias were the only latin americans on the list.

Her biggest hits
Xuxa's biggest singles were during her Xou da Xuxa era, the biggest of them all being Ilariê, but she was also successful with Lua de Cristal; Tindolelê; Brincar de Índio and Arco-Íris.

After 1992, almost all of her CDs were focused on the teenage public, but almost none of the songs were hit singles, with the exception of Salada Mista, a song about a game in the style of Spin the Bottle.

From her new collection, Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos, focussed on preschool children, the hits included 5 Patinhos, A Elefantinha Bila-Bilú, Mexe a Cadeira com o Tchutchucão and Cabeça, Ombro, Joelho e Pé.

Marlene Mattos
Marlene Matos was Xuxa's boss secretary when they met and since then, she became Xuxa's manager. Every decision Xuxa made should be approved by Marlene and together they made an amazing duo, with lots of triumphs together. Marlene was the godmother of Xuxa's daughter and in the early 90s, a character in Xuxa comic: a Xuxa friend who was always stressed out.

They had a fight in 2003 when Xuxa wanted to make children shows but Marlene wanted Xuxa to do teenager shows. Marlene was right and she went down from 20 points on the rating to 9, sometimes losing to number 2 net, SBT, cartoon block. But Xuxa made some wise decisions, her kids CD+DVDs series 'Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos' won two Latin Grammy and sold well.

Reality soap opera
Xuxa's life is almost a Truman Show.

She became famous in the 1980s, when dating soccer legend Pelé. In the early 1990s, she dated another brazilian legend Ayrton Senna, the union was criticized and the press said they wanted attention.

When Xuxa found out her father had a lover, she went public with the story and told bad things about her father to the press. They reconciled live at Xou da Xuxa last episode in 1992.

In 1998, her daughter was born with the labour being shown live at Jornal Nacional, the most important and most watched news shows in Brazil. Nine months before, she announced live at Globo's sunday show Domingão do Faustão that her dream would come true and she would have a child, but before the news had leaked to Domingo Legal com Gugu, the concurrent show. Xuxa, by the way, was good friend with Gugu until he started his sensationalist coverage of the Xuxa Park fire. Their reconciliation was photograhed and put on the cover of a gossip magazine CARAS.

Her daughter 500 thousand dollars first party was covered by gossip shows and magazines and so was her daughter first day at school and first day at ballet. Xuxa stopped exposing Sasha to the press when she realized it could be bad to her daughter. But Sasha still appear in events with Xuxa and, sometimes, in her shows and videos.

From time to time, the public is informed, by magazines and TV shows, that Xuxa is sad, that Xuxa is happy, that Xuxa is lonely, that Xuxa wants a boyfriend, that Xuxa is feeling good

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