Karina Jelinek

Jelinek was born on 22 March 1981 in Villa María, Córdoba.^[1] She began to work as model at the age of 16,^[1] and became the Miss Córdoba Province and the Miss Villa Carlos Paz.^[2] At the age of 19, she moved to Buenos Aires, and began participating in fashion shows, advertising campaigns and television shows.^[3] She has appeared for magazines Maxim and H Para Hombres^[4] 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.^[5]

After a courtship of three months she married Leonardo Fariña on 28 April 2011^[6] in the Tattersall hotel in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires.^[7]

In 2012, she again took part in the Bailando por un sueño competition.^[5] 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.^[8] In May of that year they stopped living together.^[9]

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".^[10]