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At the age of 12, he received a message from model Sara Sampaio and couldn’t believe it. At the age of 19, he won a competition that changed his life. She was a digital presenter on The Voice Portugal and is now a radio presenter and model. Catarina Maia is the guest Geração 90 and talks openly about her profession, family and the connection she has with her brother with Trisomy 21. “Disability does not define anyone. What will define you is your personality, what you believe and what you transmit to society.”
Born in August 1999, in Gondomar. He grew up in a small village surrounded by countryside and “clean air”. From his childhood he remembers car trips with his family, holidays in southern Spain and playing with his older brother.
“He is always involved in my best memories”, he recalls.
He moved to Lisbon to study Communication Sciences with the dream of being a journalist, but fashion had already been part of his life since he was 12 years old. She joined the modeling agency where Sara Sampaio was after exchanging messages with the model on Twitter. Since then, communication has gone hand in hand with fashion.
In 2019, she won the Cabelos Pantene competition and was invited to be a digital presenter on the program The Voice Portugal. Today she is an entertainer on Mega Hits radio.
The presenter, model and radio host, Catarina Maia, is the guest on the new episode of Geração 90. In this conversation with Júlia Palha, she talks about how difficult it is to be away from her family, who lives in Porto, especially her brother, who has Trisomy 21. And how you deal with illness and discrimination.
“I only found out that my brother had trisomy 21 when I went to school, because at home we were treated the same way. It started to hurt me when I grew up and I realized where the nastiness of the comments they made came from, where the discrimination and lack of information came from. It’s just ignorance”, he concludes.
After cinema, television and fashion, three areas that Júlia Palha knows well, came a new challenge: holding a series of conversations in podcast format on SIC Notícias. ‘Generation 90’ comes in the wake of and , two highly successful podcasts, by Bernardo Ferrão and Francisco Pedro Balsemão.
Júlia Palha thus opens the doors to the generation that grew up with the digital revolution and is anxious about the future. In ‘Generation 90’, we speak lightly of the weight that dreams and expectations carry.
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