Michele

**Michele**, portrayed by Michelle Meeus, is a supporting character of the First Story (season 1) of *Chiquititas*.

## History

### Season 1

When the story begins, Michele is one of the 8 orphans living at Rincón de Luz. She and Romina are always getting in to fights, but she gets along with the other girls. After Gynette arrives on the orphanage for the 10 years celebration alongside Ramiro, Michele recognizes Gynette from magazines pictures as a famous top model, and as she spends more time at time at the institution, Romina and Michele start competing for her attention.

#### Competing with Romina for Gynette's attention

Gynette, realizing the fact that Romina, Michele and Cinthia are easier to manipulate, invite the girls to visit her apartment. She buys the girls some gifts to win them over to her side. Gynette then procedes to manipulate both Romina and Michele, by asking them both to act as her secretary, always asking them to do the same things, so that they will clash. Gynette asks both of them for secrecy, as a way to avoid jealousy from the other girls, when if fact she's doing that on purpose so that the two girls will be more jealous of each other. Gynette keeps asking them both for things that will make them confront each other, such as asking both for a cup of tea, which leads to a fight when they end up braking one of Carmen's china. Gynette works to confuse their minds. Jimena is one of the few to realize something must be going on with the girls.

#### Transferral to Cordoba

Gynette reveals a plan to Hernan to transfer both girls to other institutions, she promises both girls to adopt them as her daughter, but since there's a rule that a director cannot adopt kids from the institution they work for, she instructs both girls in secrecy to ask for a transferral to another institution in Córdoba. Meanwhile she keeps playing with the girls feelings for her. Gynette asks them both to organize her papers in exclusivity, and they keep fighting. Gynette tells Ramiro the girls are too aggressive, suggesting that they should be transferred. Maru lets the other confused girls know that Michele are asking to be transferred. Cinthia and Laura tells them that Romina also asked to be transferred. Gynette tells Ramiro that she started the girls transferral but he says Carmen has to authorize it too, which angers her.

Jimena tells Mili that somebody might be influencing the girls in making this decision, as the girls can't understand where all this is coming from. Gynette asks Michele and Romina to tell Ramiro that they want to be transferred to Cordoba, with lies that she will get them and adopt them at the new place. The girls leave to Córdoba. Jime is suspicious that Gynette is behind this and shares her thoughts with Mili. Carmen then finds out through Ernestina about the girls'.

## Personality and Traits

Michele is a sweet girl who loves fashion magazines.

## Other versions

* There's no version of Michele in the Brazilian series.

## Reception and Commentaries

The ending of Michele and Romina is a little sad and cruel, as we don't know what happen to them after they are transferred, which is against the show's message of hope and love. Even though it's a reality that happy endings are not always the case, we start to care about the characters, especially the children, to see them go like that. That type of careless ending is not good for the show.