María Antonieta Collins Biography
María Antonieta Collins is a best-selling author of seven books and a Mexican journalist. She has received four Emmy Awards as well as the Edward Murrow Award.
How old is María Antonieta Collins? – Age
She is 69 years old as of 12 May 2021. She was born in 1952 in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico.
Is Maria Antonieta Collins Married? – Husband
She is a widow. She was married Fabio Fajardo in 1995. Fabio died in October 2006.
María Antonieta Collins Book
Her book, Cuando el monstruo despierta, published in 2003, discussed domestic violence. Collins’ experience writing this book was emotional, as she revealed that her own daughter, Antonietta Collins, had been a victim of domestic violence by a former boyfriend. Collins announced in a March 2008 People en Espaol article that she would be leaving Telemundo when her contract expired in August 2008 and that she wished to return to anchoring news. She also contributes a weekly editorial column to the “El Sol de Mexico” network and its sixty Mexican newspapers.
María Antonieta Collins Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $3 Million.
How much does Maria Antonieta Collins make?
She has an annual salary of $200 thousand.
María Antonieta Collins Career
Collins rose to prominence in Mexico as a reporter for “Televisa 24 horas” (1974), Noticiero con Jacobo Zabludovsky. Collins was assigned as Televisa’s first correspondent in California in 1979, where she began as a general assignment journalist, also covering Major League Baseball with the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers, a job she held until 1986. Later that year, he was transferred to Spanish International Network (SIN), later renamed Univision. Collins was well-known for her work as a Mexico Correspondent, Texas Correspondent, and International Correspondent during her eighteen years at Univision Network.
Collins left Univision to host the morning show “Cada Dia” on Telemundo. In 1993, she was named to replace Mara Celeste Arrarás as the weekend anchor of Noticiero Univision, covering Jorge Ramos and Mara Elena Salinas while they were on vacation. Collins persuaded her friend Juanita Castro, the younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro, to co-write and publish Juanita’s autobiography, My Brothers Fidel and Raul, the Secret Story, in Spanish in 1999. In October 2009, the book was finally published.
In 2000, she was named Senior Correspondent for the news magazine “Aqui y Ahora,” a position she held with Noticiero Univision fin de semana until August 2005, when she left the network.