Bárbara Palacios Teyde de Manrique (born 9 December 1963)[2] is a Venezuelan tv host, writer and beauty queen.

They moved to Caracas in the mid-1960s when Palacios was one and a half years old, and, according to the laws of the time, of the South American country, she was considered a Venezuelan national.

At 17, Sousa called her again, inviting her to participate, but she ruled out the contest, because she was working to pay for her university studies and was not interested in being a beauty queen.

[7] Already a graduate and being a junior advertising executive, at 22 years of age she represented the Trujillo State in the 1986 edition of Miss Venezuela, performed at the Municipal Theater of the city of Caracas.

[citation needed] Palacios has worked as a television host for over two decades, and has been a spokesperson for multinational corporations in the United States and Latin America.