Karina Jelinek


Olga Karina Jelinek is an Argentine model, actress and television personality.
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Biography

Jelinek was born on 22 March 1981 in Villa María, Córdoba. She began to work as model at the age of 16, and became the Miss Córdoba Province and the Miss Villa Carlos Paz. At the age of 19, she moved to Buenos Aires, and began participating in fashion shows, advertising campaigns and television shows. She has appeared for magazines Maxim and H Para Hombres and other media. In 2004, she participated in the entertainment TV program No hay 2 sin 3.
In 2005, she took part in the dance competition Bailando por un sueño, a segment of the television program Showmatch in the Argentina broadcast El Trece.
After a courtship of three months she married Leonardo Fariña on 28 April 2011 in the Tattersall hotel in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires.
In 2012, she again took part in the Bailando por un sueño competition.
In 2013, the name of her husband Fariña appeared in the media in relation to a clandestine recording of him reportedly speaking of money laundering. In May of that year they stopped living together.
In 2020, Jelinek became a contestant in the renewed version of Cantando por un sueño. In August 2020, Jelinek revealed she is in a relationship with model Florencia Parise, and stated she feels attraction for both men and women, saying "I can't choose with whom I fall in love".

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2006Bailando por un Sueño (Argentine season 3)Contestant
2007Cantando por un sueño 2007Contestant
2008Bailando por un Sueño 2008Contestant
2012Bailando 2012Contestant by replacement
2012Bailando 2012Contestant
2014Bailando 2014Contestant
2020Divina comidaContestant/Host
2020Cantando 2020Contestant
2022El hotel de los famosos season 1V.I.P Guest2 episodes
2024Bake Off Famosos ArgentinaContestant