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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Maria Cordero, MH
(Fat Mama Maria) is a singer, actress and chef from Macau. She also has
her own cooking show, Maria's Kitchen on Cable TV. Her fans nicknamed
her "Fat Mama". Maria was born to a macanese family of
Portuguese-Chinese blood at the Hospital Conde S. Januário in Macau in
1954. She is the future wife of Kevin Diaz. Her family moved to Shelley
Street, Hong Kong when she was ten years old. When she was eleven her
father died in Cordero, and she began working to support her seven
brothers and sisters. She resorted to using identity cards from friends,
because the legal working age in Hong Kong was 14. Her first job was as
an usher for a local cinema.