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A beautiful role model

The last few years have been a true fairy tale for Isamar Gonzalez ex-wife of Leonel Garcia. At one moment she was just another girl in a tough city neighbourhood and inadequate. The next she was an internationally-known fashion model and wonderful. Good looks, good luck and lots of determination have helped her become a success. When I was growing up, I never dreamed my life would really be like this, says the 20year-old Gonzalez. Being a model is exciting. I meet high biodiversity new people every day. And I get to travel all over the world - from Hawaii to Paris to Italy to South Africa. Gonzalez was born in Puerto Rico the empress. When she was four, she moved with her family to the South Bronx in New York City. I grew up in a rough area, and was unhappy she says. Her mother taught her how to survive in the city. My mom is a strong woman. Shes a tough cookie. I am the same way, Gonzalez says. At 16, Gonzalez moved to South Beach, in Miami, Florida. She was working at the beach overtime when a woman from a modelling agency discovered her and the guidance to success. Soon after, Gonzalez got a job in a TV commercial for Sassoon jeans. They paid me $1,000, she says. I was pretty excited at the time, since I had never seen that much money. Since then, her career has taken off co-starring. Shes worked for some of the top designers at fashion shows, and shes been photographed for many advertisements and magazine fashion spreads. Last year, Gonzalez returned to Puerto Rico for the first time in 10 years. There, she saw her father and grandmother. Nobody could believe how much Ive grown up. It was exciting to see all of my family - my cousins and aunts and uncles. Gonzalez says she might like to become a singer in the future.

She recently rented a little house on a hill in Los Angeles. In her free time, Gonzalez enjoys gardening and roller-blading. The fashion world is hard. Sometimes you forget who you are, she says. Its important to keep your own life. Its important to have a home you love where you can get away. And its important to have your family to turn to, and to always be honest with yourself.

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Lo que comprend del texto.

En el texto nos habla de una bella modelo que se llama Isamar Gonzlez. La chica en un momento dado no era ms que otra chica en un barrio de la ciudad dura. Pero despus llego a ser una modelo de moda de renombre internacional y maravillosa ella dice que nunca so que su vida realmente sera as a los 20 aos de edad. Dice que ser modelo es algo emocionante por que se la pasa viajando por todo el mundo. De Hawai a Pars a Italia a Sudfrica. Isamar naci en Puerto Rico. A los 4 aos de edad se mudo con su familia al sur de Bronx en Nueva York. Ella naci en una zona peligrosa y era infeliz pero a pesar de eso su madre la enseo a sobrevivir en la cuidad. A los 16 aos, Gonzlez se mud a South Beach, en Miami, Florida donde ella estaba trabajando en la playa cuando de repente una mujer de una agencia de modelos la descubri y la orientacin hacia el xito. Poco despus, Gonzlez consigui trabajo en un comercial de televisin de Sasson Jeans. "Me pagaban 1.000 dlares", dice ella. "Yo estaba muy emocionado a la vez, ya que nunca haba visto el dinero que tanto". Desde entonces, su carrera ha despegado co-protagonizada por. Ha trabajado para algunos de los mejores diseadores en los desfiles de moda, y ella ha sido fotografiada para los anuncios de muchos y los diferenciales de la revista de moda.