Born Janney Marín Rivera, Chiquis Rivera is a singer and TV personality who has become famous for her intriguing career and also as the daughter of Mexican superstar Jenni Rivera.
She was birthed on June 26, 1985, in Los Angeles, California. It was also in California that she was brought up as the eldest of five siblings. Although she started her career much earlier as a TV personality, it was until 2014 that she started her music career with the release of her first song, Paloma Blanca which she dedicated to her mother, Since then, she has released two albums, Ahora in 2015, followed bu Entre Botellas in 2018.
Here are interesting things you didn’t know about her:
12 Important Facts To Know About Chiquis Rivera
1. She Was Abused By Her Father, José Trinidad Marín
Her father sexually abused her at a young age and continued to do so till he was later accosted and jailed without parole.
The marriage between her parents ended in 1992 when she was only 8. Custody of Chiquis and her siblings was shared between her parents and so her father took advantage of that to continue sexually molesting her until she was 12 after she started menstruating.
Despite this tragic event, she did not hold it against him. She revealed that she has forgiven him but would not seek his friendship.
2. Her Father Has Been Convicted For The Crime
Trinidad Marin evaded the law for a number of years(9) until 2007 when it finally caught up with him. For molesting his daughter and sister-in-law, Marin, then 43, was sentenced to 31 years to life.
That said, Trinidad insisted that he did not commit the said crimes and his lawyer also maintained that his client is an innocent man who suffered a miscarriage of justice for which he blamed himself and apologized to Marin and his family for letting them down.
3. Chiquis Rivera Has A History Of Others Abusing Her
Apart from suffering in the hands of her father, she also had travails in the hands of a woman whose name she has refused to mention. She said the woman took advantage of her when she was only 9.
With this traumatic past, she seems to have moved beyond these horrid things that happened to her as she doesn’t speak about it.
4.Rivera’s Father Abused Others
Reports from her aunt, Rosie Rivera came out about Jose Trinidad Marin’s abuse of herself and others which was later confirmed to be Chiquis’s younger sister, Jacqie Marin.
It is good to know that despite living as a fugitive for 9 years, he was later apprehended, tried, and jailed.
5.Chiquis Rivera And Her Mother Were Estranged At The Time Of Her Death
On December 9, 2012, Jenni Rivera died in an air crash alongside five others in Mexico after a concert at the Monterrey Arena. Her death at the age of 43 was shocking to many as a vibrant music star in the Banda music category popular among Mexican populations and made even more popular by a woman in a genre popular with men.
What was more shocking was that two months before then, she and her first daughter, Chiquis had stopped speaking to each other.
The older singer threw her daughter out of the house and off her will, leaving her nothing from her net worth of $25 million.
6.Her Problems With Her Mother Were Not New
By her last issue with Jenni before her death, the younger Rivera had already gotten used to her clashes with her mother whom she still described as a sweet woman.
She once had a problem with her mother after she left school early. Her mother would go on to cut her hair and throw her out of the house and then she would spend two months with her grandmother.
7.There Was A Time She Believed She Was Gay
Due to the abuses that she suffered, the adolescent ages of Chiquis Rivera were filled with many confusion and anxiety. In her memoir, Forgiveness, the singer revealed that she was worried if she was going to be able to maintain an exclusive relationship or she would end up celibate or promiscuous. That is heavy baggage for one to live with from the past.
What is more shocking is the revelation that at some point, she was also wondering whether she was straight or gay. In fact, she once thought she had a romantic feeling for her female best friend, but that was something her mother did not approve of.
8.Who Is Her Husband?
In 2019, Chiquis got married to Lorenzo Mendes, a former vocalist of La Original Banda El Limon. The marriage gave her a stepchild from Lorenzo’s former marriage. Lorenzo Mendez despite being two years younger than her, had their moments while the marriage lasted.
She was 34 at the time she got married to Lorenzo, her divorce was announced on her social media on September 17, 2020, which she said was a decision by both of them.
9.Did She Have A Relationship With Esteban Loaiza?
After her mother’s divorce from José Trinidad Marín, she went on to marry Juan López in 1997 only to end the union in 2003 and then she married Mexican baseball star, Esteban Loaiza in 2010.
In October 2012, at the same time that Jenni and Chiquis stopped speaking, the older woman also filed for a divorce from her husband. Though the divorce was not finalized due to her mishap death, the marriage was already headed downhill.
Having married a sex offender in the past, Jenni Rivera was so distrustful of men that she suspected them. With this background, she held onto a rumor of her then-husband, Esteban Loiza having an affair with her beautiful daughter, Chiquis Rivera.
Acting upon this, she obtained a surveillance video from her security camera which allegedly showed her daughter coming out of her Esteban Loiza’s bedroom. This incident sparked off an animosity that will lead to the rift and estrangement between mother and daughter at the time of Jenni River’s death in 2012.
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10.Why Did She Freeze Her Eggs
At the age of 33, She decided to freeze her eggs as she was not ready to become a mother yet. Her younger brother Johnny was born when she was 15 and helped in raising him while their mother, the late queen of banda pursued her music crime.
Chiquis recount raising him as her own kid and always looks at him as one of her kids. her decision to hold off giving birth to her own children at a younger age is to take her time.
Her fertility doctor, Shahin Ghadir is one of Beverly Hills’ specialists, she looks up to other celebrities who had their children at a later age such as J.Lo and Mariah Carey as points of reference.
11.Chiquis Rivera Net Worth
The net worth of Chiquis Rivera has been estimated at $3 million. She made a better part of her fortune from her career as a TV star and singer.
12.Height and Bodyweight
Rivera is a very good-looking woman who also has a good body. However, she is not the tallest woman on any day. She stands at a height of only 5 feet 3 inches and a bodyweight of 128 lb / 58 kg.
