&&. announcing her royal highness, ( ana marĂa bolĂvar y tovar ), the ( 31 ) year old ( princess ) of ( venezuela ). she is often confused with ( marĂa gabriela de farĂa ). some say that she is ( paranoid & guarded ), but she is actually ( resilient & compassionate )
stats;
NAME: ana marĂa bolĂvar y tovar
BIRTHDATE: july 11, 1992
ASTROLOGY: cancer sun / sagitarrius moon / leo rising
GENDER: cis woman (she/hers)
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: heteroflexible? Idk, I gotta ponder on this one.
HEIGHT: 5'5"
FAMILY: santiago bolĂvar (father, deceased), ana victoria tovar (mother), adriana romera (eldest sister), francisco maikel bolĂvar y tovar (eldest brother, king), aliana nicolle bolĂvar y tovar (middle sister, deceased), ender bolĂvar y tovar (middle brother), alejandro bolĂvar y tovar (son, 7 years old)
tldr;
being born the youngest of 5 and a girl, ana marĂa was raised in wealth and privilege but without the true weight of expectations.
around 14, started dating her ex, miguel de orléans e bragança. they were high school and college sweethearts.
they broke up after a combination of factors lead to her feeling neglected/ignored, and him feeling overwhelmed.
tabloids went wild with their break up.
best way to get over someone is to get under someone else, right? wrong. she got pregnant from a one night stand.
miguel and ana almost got back together, both of them thinking the baby was his. Then after a paternity leaked to the press that it was not his baby, they broke up for good.
tabloids went even more wild speculating on their break up and the father of the baby (this information was never released).
within the year of having her baby (alejandro bolĂvar y tovar - he's a sag), both her sister and dad were assassinated.
ana peaced out and withdrew from public life, unable to handle the tabloids, the grief, and the new baby all at once (focusing on the latter two).
2015-2018, she was rarely seen.
around 2018, she started making public appearances again, all her socials were wiped clean and she started anew.
rehabed her image and has a pretty favorable presence on social media, is a semi-frequent face on latin american TV (mainly as herself, not acting. yet.)
she has deep guilt about feeling like she was âself absorbedâ around 2014-2015 and has internalized some of the negative tabloid coverage + grief. she tries to ease this guilt by thoroughly investigating her father and sister's deaths and reliving that year, but through eyes other than her own and finding true justice
she also has eased the guilt by becoming very involved with philanthropy and volunteering (her thought process: even if she will never have any meaningful political power, she still has the power to help and take care of the people of venezuela through a more direct approach)
is very protective of her son, he is NOT in many public appearances out of her concern that he will become tabloid fodder.
still finds it hard to deeply connect with people after the tabloid fiasco + losing her family
full bio;
Ana MarĂa Leonor BolĂvar y Tovar presents herself on her social media as this fully modern wonder woman-type figure. She is the woman who can do it all. She's a single mother, a TV personality (with rumors of starting her own show), maintains a carefully curated instagram, is dedicated to philanthropy and is frequently seen at soup kitchens, occasionally engages in statesmanship, is almost always at Sunday mass, and still has time to invest into her own passion projects (see: investigating her own father's death). But to those she holds close, her public performance is only just that. A Performance. Ana MarĂa would liken herself to a phoenix if it didn't seem so clichĂ©. She wasn't simply born as That Girl. She didn't become Supermom purely out of some innate drive or personality. Instead, it was forged. A mere 10 years ago, Ana MarĂa was nigh unrecognizable compared to now. She was light-hearted, carefree, deeply caring, affectionate, and absolutely in love with her Brazilian Prince Charming. They'd occasionally grace covers together. Her presence wasn't as defined, but she'd been received well by the Venezuelan public as the seemingly sweet youngest princess. But all of that changed in 2014. Never being able to put her first, after a long relationship between childhood sweethearts, Miguel broke up with her. In heartbreak and desperation to feel wanted, loved, anything at all, Ana MarĂa found comfort in another man's arms. It was only one night, but almost two months later, she'd come to find out she was pregnant. For any normal woman, on it's own this would be a traumatic enough series of events. But given her status as well as her ex's, the tabloids and gossip sites were quick to pick up such a juicy plotline. At first, the stories had mainly been of the break up and the occasional candid of her or Miguel with a friend and speculations about the nature of their friendships. Follows and unfollows were screenshotted on every social media site for the truly over-involved. It took them a while to catch onto the pregnancy. Ana MarĂa tried to wear more billowy shirts, but eventually some internet sleuths were able to deduce she was pregnant and before long, the headlines were everywhere. Ex-lovers having a child together? How would they raise the child? What does this mean for Brazil to have a new royal in the family? Out of wedlock? Though the baby came as a surprise, it seemed to have brought the couple back together. The honorable man he was, Miguel privately proposed and Ana MarĂa began to figure out living arrangements and timelines. But there were doubts and before the announcements were made, the Brazilian royal family wanted to know if they had another heir in line for the throne. It seemed unthinkable that it couldn't be his, Ana MarĂa had only been with one other man and it had only happened once. And yet, when the results came back she felt a pit in her stomach. Once read aloud, all of her worst fears had come true. Both families knew that this was not a child who would ever ascend. There were whispers of âbastardâ. Ana MarĂa objected to this term. A Bastard would imply outside of a marriage, and after the paternity was discovered and heavy discouragement from his family, Miguel rescinded the proposal. It wasn't long before the paternity â or lack thereof â of her baby was leaked to the press. Suddenly, she was the cause for the break up that Miguel initiated. She was a cheating witch. Her timelines were scrutinized and picked apart for lookers-on to speculate on who could be the father of her unborn child. Even when her son, Alejandro, was born, gifts delivered to the palace were photographed for the public's inspection. No stone unturned, nothing she did went without deep analysis. It seemed unending, a barrage of waves crashing into her ceaselessly. Hit after hit after hit after- Until the unthinkable happened. Her father and sister were assassinated in Barquisimeto. The timeline and tabloids fell silent. Only candle emojis, in memoriam articles, and mass grieving by the nation.
2015 was a
horrifying, muddied year. One that she's lost track of but also is constantly haunted by. She lived in a deluge of grief, the only thing keeping her moving being her incredibly young son. She couldn't shut down, she had to keep going for him, she couldn't take his parent away too, not when he'd lost a father before even knowing him. So she drowned out as much as she could and focused only on surviving and raising her son. She largely retreated from public life for a while, rarely being seen outside the palace walls. The only photographs that can be found from that time period are candid photos from memorials, commemorations, necessary state events, the occasional picture of her slipping into or leaving the catholic church the family was known to attend, and the new royal family portraits that had to be retaken. Her social media fell silent. Those rare photos provided the only evidence to the public that the youngest princess was still in Caracas. When she reemerged nearly 3 years later, she was a different woman. Still a grieving daughter and sister in every sense, but now she had a sense of purpose and drive. She had her son to live for. And not just live for but to create a legacy for. Her social media accounts were wiped clean and reborn into a careful, curated, presence. She balanced the aspirational with the compassionate. She was responsible with the platform, using it as a way to relate to and listen to the people of her country and soon, the world. It wasn't long before she also began to make appearances on TV. Before her image was fully rehabilitated, she had to be selective with the programs and situations she appeared on, viewing it as a form of domestic diplomacy. For all intents and purposes, her rehabilitation was a success. Since her reemergence into the public sphere, she has become known in Venezuela for being one of the more accessible members of the royal family, having a closer, more personal, parasocial relationship with her viewers and followers. Not only is she seen at official state dinners, but also, to her security's chagrin, out and amongst the people more. She frequently volunteers at soup kitchens, is seen hosting fundraisers for charity events following natural disasters and other crises. Though she will never see any true form of state power, she seems to have embraced the idea of building a relationship with the people in a different, more direct way. As a public persona, all of this is perceived as admirable and generous. Her activism has lead to an increase in charity work in her own country, leading to a near immeasurable impact. However, to those closest to her, it can sometimes come off as near compulsive. There's a deep sense of guilt in her that still lives in her chest from losing Aliana and her father. She was so busy in those last few months, so under barrage by the constant tabloid and gossip sites reporting, that she didn't see any warning signs. She didn't hear about any political unrest in the country. Her father's death was completely unexpected and some of the voices of those tabloids wormed their way inside her brain. What if she was this self-absorbed princess? What kind of princess wouldn't even notice that there was another royal family angry enough with her father to commit assassination? None of it made any sense. So, she decided she'd make it make sense. She constantly relives 2015, only not through the eyes of the tabloids this time, but through the geopolitical lens. She reads every article she can find, digs through documents, and is constantly trying to understand what happened? And why? Who would want to kill her father? It didn't make sense that it was just one family and that Francisco got appropriate ârevengeâ. Assassinations weren't this simple, not in the modern age. How did security miss the weapons at the speech? Was there an informant on her father's or sister's security? Who were they working with really? So she pores through it over and over and over, hoping for answers, but also hoping to plug this hole of guilt. To try to do
whatever she can for her father, even after death. And to her, that means finding true justice. Her philanthropy is also largely born out of this âself-absorbedâ narrative she's internalized. Besides trying to relive the year she felt so absent from, she's also trying to prove, both to herself and any potential doubters, that she's not that person anymore. She's not self-absorbed, she does care about people and she wants to use her power to do what's best. At the moment, after being cut off from the South American trade routes and the supply chain issues that have caused food to become more scarce and more expensive in the country, a lot of Ana MarĂa's philanthropy has been directly related to hunger. It's not a passion born purely out of self-interest, but also one that does come from a genuine love for the people. However to state that it is altruistic and pure and not partially fueled by her own insecurities is simply not the full picture. Personality wise, the âperformanceâ aspect is important for Ana MarĂa. Not in an inherently fake way. But she performs for the camera, she turns on the charm and reminds the nation of this relatable but aspirational woman. As a mother, she performs as both father and mother figure for her son. After all, after coming away so emotionally battered from the last break up, she hasn't exactly jumped into many new relationships. There is also, by necessity, a performance aspect in respects to social media. While it is always a performance to some degree, Ana Maria's relationship is slightly more tenuous with the medium. It has been used both in her destruction and trauma but also a tool in her image rehabilitation. There are multiple levels of performance that Ana MarĂa engages in with these platforms. It's a dynamic relationship, but critical to her outward image and public perception. Due to much of the trauma she endured, she is also extremely cognizant of the public-personal role divides and the nature of parasocial relationships. Because of this, like in this bio, she does not put Alejandro in the public spotlight that often. He may be at state events if necessary, but for the most part, she does her absolute best not to post pictures of him, and to keep her motherly anecdotes in line with respecting his privacy. She also tries not to expose him to paparazzi or other people that may try to infringe on his privacy before he's even fully aware and able to make those decisions for himself. However, he's now 7 years old and has entered school. Ana MarĂa knows it is only so long that she can keep him protected and out of the public eye as much as she has. She also knows that at some point, he may hear some of the old rumors resurfacing. Though she's done the work to try and change her public image, she's still come away deeply scarred and suspicious of others. Her father and sister were murdered, she still isn't fully certain of who leaked the paternity of her son to the press, and in her most vulnerable moments she was mocked and ridiculed by the media. While she's very warm in public and in her public personas, in can be difficult to get close to her. She tends to be slow to trust, more introverted, and far more concerned with strengthening the core relationships in her life than she is newer ones. However, her former self is not all lost, just buried deeply under her protective shell. Her son still sees her unencumbered smile. Her family still knows her affection and loyalties. And the person she portrays on TV has a glimmer of that naivete she once possessed. She cares deeply for those closest to her. Both in life and beyond. She will not let her past, her title, or her traumas hold her down. She will carve out a path for her and her son. And no one will stop her. Not if she has anything to say about it.
headcanons;
ana marĂa and alejandro love a zoo, aquarium, etc. anything with animals. expect a zoo thread any time the location changes.
she's fluent in and teaching alejandro english and brazilian portuguese, as well.
she has been known to show up late to evening events because she wants to put Alejandro to bed herself.
ana marĂa is floating a talk show idea with a network right now, probably will be filming pilot segments when she has the chance.
she majored in art history in college. i don't know what she was planning on doing with the degree, that got cut short and she hasn't told me what she wanted to do yet. but it likely informs her aesthetics.
when rebuilding her image, she probably worked with some photographers/ig accounts (or burner accounts) to help take some semi-flattering photos that looked like candids.
brings her son with her wherever she goes (city-wise, not to all public events).
was a dancer in her youth. she started in ballet but mostly did ballroom. never competed, but likely could have if it didn't seem like such a security risk.
wanted connections;
old/former friends - whether the friends fell away because back in  ana marĂaâs Trauma Era, her reputation was too toxic, she became too boring after the baby, or  ana marĂa  ghosted them after her family passed away, i imagine  ana marĂa  has probably lost a decent amount of friends during that time.
childhood/close friends - this category is probably much smaller, but iâm sure a few people stuck around through the mess and also didnât mind very sporadic conversation for a few years.
family friends - being the youngest of 5 and a royal family, i am sure there are some family friend type connections. whether theyâre friends with francisco or would be with the family, iâm sure ana marĂa is passively aware at them at least.
pet owners - alejandro wants to pet and befriend every animal in the neighborhood.
philanthropy partners - one of the main reasons ana marĂa is here is for philanthropic endeavors trying to help the people of venezuela. sheâs not about to be upfront about the issues going on in venezuela, but sheâll definitely be looking to work on projects specifically dealing with food security and environmental protection.
people wanting to take advantage? - good luck, francisco tells her absolutely nothing, but if you enjoy a challenge, go for it.
if u made it this far, have a playlist.
