Rosie Mercado - Weight Loss Las Vegas

Rosie Mercado (born March 28, 1980) is an American plus-size model, celebrity makeup artist, fashion designer and television personality of Mexican descent. She is best known for starring in reality television show Curvy Girls on NuvoTV. She has been described as a role model for plus-size women globally.

Early life

Mercado was born and grew up in Riverside, Southern California, United States. but she spent most of her life in Las Vegas, Nevada when her parents moved their business there.

Mercado is of Latino descent, her parents are from Mexico in Guadalajara and Zacatecas. Her parents have a business in Vegas and she comes from an entrepreneurial background. Mercado credits her father as "a visionary in all the businesses he has created". Mercado's parents have always has been supportive of her in life and her career.

Mercado attended Bishop Gorman High School and left in 1999. She was one of five latinos who attended the private school. In high school, she was a 'tomboy' and felt that she did not fit in because of her size (which has been a driving force to accomplish plus-size diversity in the entertainment industry). She was called "a big girl with a pretty face" or "the girl with the pretty face and the big ass", and was bullied because of her weight. Mercado studied Business Management at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Since she was young, Mercado had the desire to make it in the fashion industry. However, she had insecurities primarily fueled by her weight issues. Although there were a few women that Mercado looked up to in the entertainment industry, she looked up to Jennifer Lopez and Queen Latifah.

Modeling career

Mercado broke into the fashion industry within four years. She started off in modeling as a photographer, she was building her business but did not have the money to get professional models in front of the camera and get the business started. A celebrity photographer told her that she had a beautiful face and that she should be modeling. She took pictures of herself but was often rejected because of her size, many times fashion industry people liked her face in her portfolio but then balked after seeing her in person because of her size and she was advised that if she lost weight she would have more work. After her divorce, in 2009, she entered The Miss Plus America Pageant, she did not win the top prize but won the runway competition and was discovered. She was then crowned Miss Nevada Plus America. She then won awards including, People Choice, CoverGirl and Runway Model. She also booked herself to her first spread: The Knot Weddings and Goddess Magazine. Within a year of this she was on the Full-Figured Fashion Week and Mitzy Fashion Show. She modeled for Eccoco Clothing and Igigi by Yuliya Raquel.

Mercado has now won Miss Plus America Cover Girl, Miss Plus America Runway Model and Miss Nevada Plus America. Her modeling profile also includes, Miss Plus America Runway Model, Miss Plus America People's Choice, the face of Full Figure Fashion Week 2010, Curvy Qt, Oscar Picazo Book, Curvy Girl Clothing, Igigi, Pin Up Girl Clothing.com, Univision Despierta America and Women of the year in Las Vegas 2014 for ACFC.

Media career

From when she was 16, Mercado was a radio personality in Las Vegas as a morning post from there she worked with Telemundo and Univision doing red carpet interviews for celebrities. She did voiceover work for Telemundo and commercials, and was a radio show host for frecuencia720.com.

In 2011, Mercado featured on National Geographic Channel's Taboo. She has appeared on television shows, worked as a correspondent with Gossip Meets Couture and interviewed celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy, Carmen Electra and Kourtney Kardashian. In 2013, she appeared on Univision's Las Vegas. In 2012 and 2013, she starred in season one and two of NuvoTV's reality television show Curvy Girls which tries to capture the daily life of four plus-size models as they continue to get into fashion. In June 2013, she was a special guest on The Ricki Lake Show, speaking about plus-size swim fashions.

Since 2011, she has also been a regular of Cosmoplatina. She has worked as a beauty editor for Mia Beauty and The Best of Brides. She was the only plus-size model to have worked with Oscar Picazo for his book and campaign. In June 2013, she was the first ever size 22 model on the front of PLUS Model Magazine. She has been featured in magazines including, Miss Mexico International, PLUS Model Magazine, SKORCH, Manik, New Beauty and Daily Venus magazine. She contributes for Daily Venus Diva, and became celebrity editor-at-large of Skorch Magazine in April 2010.

As well as modeling she has done fitness campaign work, television, commercials, hosted red carpets, written personal blogs, filmed videos and hosted web series. She has now gone into acting.

Makeup and fashion design

With her parents support, Mercado turned her makeup skills into a career. She is a makeup artist who has worked in pageants such as Miss Latina Beauty and Miss Essence Beauty. She models, styles, works as a makeup artist, travels and hosts red-carpet events.

She is also a fashion designer and created Bellisima, a cosmetic collection built upon art, fashion, and classical Hollywood glamor with a mission to "help every woman celebrate herself through self-confidence, knowledge, and unique beauty". She also works with designers such as Yuliya Raquel, Larissa Navarro and Jill Alexander.

In June 2013, fashion clothing line with SWAK was launched, the collection was called Fuerza (Strength), which consists of clothes in sizes 14-36 that Mercado helped design.

Personal life

Weight

After letting her weight increase to over 400 pounds at one point, Mercado began a weight loss effort in order to regain some of her lost physical mobility. At 5 feet 9 inches tall, at her heaviest she struggled even with walking, and is hoping not to let herself return to that state. Mercado is currently weighing about 250 pounds and is dress size 24. She was still 350 pounds, however, dress size 32 and had measurements of 54"-24"-77", when she was chosen to be the face of Full Figured Fashion Week in 2010. Mercado has been from a size 16 to 34, she has said that her ideal size is about 12 but no smaller; she loves being plus size and is passionate about advancing the plus size industry.

General

Mercado lives in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. She is a mother of three children, she has a daughter (born 2000) and two sons (born 2006 and 2008). In 2009, she got divorced and her children's father is no longer in their life. Mercado speaks fluent English and Spanish, she is a Christian and describes herself as "a woman of faith".She married French artist Mathieu Questel and is divorced www.mathieuquestel.com

In 2012, Mercado graduated from Tony Robbins Mastery University. She promotes body diversity and positivity she is also a motivational speaker, especially about women abuse, and is now one of the pioneers for the Full Body Photo Project, created by Jessica Kane of Skorch which encourages women to get comfortable of their own skin.

See also

• Plus-size model

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