María Hernández

María Hernández, known as María la del Barrio, is the titular main protagonist of the telenovela of the same name.
She is portrayed by a famous Mexican singer and actress Thalía.
==Biography==
María Hernández is a poor orphan living with her godmother and picked trash to support herself. On her 15th birthday, her godmother died after she asked a priest to find someone who can support María. Don Fernando De la Vega adopted her and introduced her to Luis Fernando De la Vega and Soraya Montenegro, who became her love arch-rival due to being jealous and even despised María.
After her failed marriage with Luis Fernando and feigning pregnancy, Soraya Montenegro went on to asked her nanny (and her mother), Calixta Popoca, to poison María. She did, but it was unsuccessful causing Soraya abusing and kicking Calixta out of the house after Calixta reveals to her that she is her mother. After María became educated and wealthy, she was still in conflict with Soraya Montenegro. Soraya Montenegro went on to attempt murdering Osvaldo, her lover, but instead she was presumed to be dead after falling off. María and Luis Fernando fell in love, married and had a child named Fernando de la Vega Hernández, nickname "Nandito". However, due to Luis Fernando's mistaken thinking of María and Vladimir were lovers as well as his family in Spain, María began to suffer mental illness causing her to gave her child to a woman named Agripina so she can raised him as her son.
15 years later, María and Luis Fernando restores their marriage and love and live happily with their adoptive daughter. Soraya Montenegro, however, is actually not dead and is recovering from her injuries in US to get revenge on María and married a doctor, who she later kills to inherit his money by arranging a car accident. While being a stepmother to Alicia, she was very abusive to her. Nandito, on the other hand, worked as a lottery ticket seller to support his adoptive mother and went to a house of María and Luis Fernando to steal money in order to buy medicine for his adoptive mother. He was caught by María and Luis Fernando, who is unaware that Nandito is their son after being told by María that their son died. Nandito is released from the prison after María told Luis Fernando to release him.
Soraya Montenegro is getting revenge on María for marrying Luis Fernando, but she falls in love with Nandito despite their age differences. Soraya finds out that Nandito falls in love with Alicia, causing her in rage abusing her and stabbing Nandito nearly to death and went to a hospital. Soraya later kills her mother and frames Nandito for the murder, but María saved his life by taking the blame and was put to jail with Penelope, whom she has conflicted with due to Luis Fernando. During the fire at prison, María saved Penelope's life.
It reveals that María is alive and was working as a nanny for Daniel Ordóñez's children. While in the hospital, she was kidnapped by Soraya Montenegro and took her to a cabin where Soraya fights her and even burns a cabin after Luis Fernando arrives to save María from Soraya. Luis Fernando finally save María from being burned while Soraya Montenegro is burned to death. The former, feeling pity for Soraya, tried unsuccessfully to saved her. In the end, María and Luis Fernando lived happily together.
==Trivia==
*Thalía and Itatí Cantoral, who were playing María Hernández and Soraya Montenegro, were actually friends in real life and the latter did joined Thalía's challenge.
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