Together they form one of the most famous families in Portugal and, in the neighboring country, they have nothing to envy of the Kardashians when it comes to popularity. The Patrocínio sisters are true stars, not only because of social networks but also because of their continuous appearances on television and the press, after having been able to connect and interest thousands of people with what happens to them on a daily basis.
Their names are Mariana (39 years old), Carolina (37), Inés (32) and Rita (29), mothers of twelve children in total with their respective partners or exes. Their beauty and luxurious lifestyle are their main assets to capture people’s attention, but also the fact that they always seem very connected and, no less important, that they look quite similar physically (since this is especially striking) . Their professions are diverse and highly qualified, but what all four of them agree on is the ‘savoir faire’ to stay at the top.
Only they are more than enough and are enough to cover the covers of paper magazines, star in reports in digital media and do all kinds of advertising campaigns, but there is more. His mother, Teresa Vieira de Almeida, is also revered by many as being largely responsible for creating this saga. They often say that her genes are very valuable, so much so that she herself has an enviable appearance at almost 60 (she is 59) and could even be mistaken as one of their daughters.
It doesn’t end here by any means, since the Patrocínios have two younger stepsisters on their mother’s side, named Monika (22 years old) and Vicky (about to turn 21). The first of them also currently resides in Valencia where she is studying at the European Sport Business School, as stated in her curricular profile. In any case, regardless of their work or what each one is training, the majority are influencers.
The Portuguese sisters often brag about their trips, their weekends together in a spectacular family country house with animals they own in the Alentejo region (about 200 kilometers south of Lisbon), their vacations on the beaches of the Algarve … all this together with the passion they have for sports and physical exercise, since among their priorities is taking good care of themselves and eating healthy. In a way, their Spanish equivalent could perfectly be the Pombo (María, Marta and Lucía).
Carolina Patrocínio, the origin and the great cause of her family’s popularity
That they have become such a well-known clan in Portugal has an explanation, directly related to the profession of one of the sisters: Carolina Patrocínio. She has spent half her life in front of the cameras on television, first as a presenter of children’s programs since her youth (she started when she was 16) and right now on the important national network SIC. On Instagram alone, he has almost a million followers (973,000).
On a personal level, one of the most recognizable faces on the small screen in Portugal is married to former rugby player Gonzalo Sousa Uva. They have four children, three girls and one boy: Diana (10 years old), Frederica (8), Carolina (6) and Eduardo (4), who usually appear in many of the photographs that Carolina shares on her social networks since they came into the world. .
Mariana, the eldest of the Patrocínio sisters who has almost 140,000 followers on the aforementioned network, is a lawyer but works as the director of a children’s school. Her current partner is the marketing expert Nuno Santana. She is the mother of Mateus (11), Pureza (9) and Mariana (4), born from her marriage to her ex-husband, businessman Alexandre Esteves de Oliveira. After his divorce, he was the protagonist of a controversy in Portugal in 2021 when he recorded himself driving his car with one of his daughters on his lap, violating several road safety regulations.
Inés Patrocínio (140,000 followers on her public profile), for her part, works as an analyst for the European Commission and the United Nations. She has three children: Alice (6), Pedro (4) and Helena (1) from when she was with Pedro Rocha y Melo, director of a teaching academy for minors. Finally, Rita (171,000 fans on her public profile) is a fashion designer and has her own atelier dedicated to wedding dresses. She shares her life with the actor Tiago Teotónio Pereira and, from their marriage, they have welcomed their two daughters: Camila (3) and Júlia, who is still a baby.
Teresa Vieira de Almeida, the matriarch, therefore has six daughters – she was a mother for the first time at the age of 19 – and is the grandmother of twelve grandchildren. Her first husband was Pedro Patrocínio, finance director at a marketing and communications agency, the father of the four popular sisters. He, who went through a significant health downturn in 2020 after a serious infection, has rebuilt his life with his current wife Mariana Galindo.
Of course, Pedro’s relationship with his ex-wife is magnificent, since she even attended the celebration of their second marriage held in December 2023. On the other hand, Teresa’s second husband is Mark Jacobi, who has worked since 2018 as general director of Volkswagen Digital Solutions, one of the areas of the well-known German car brand. He is the father of Monika and Vicky, the latter a daring young woman with a great sense of humor who is followed on her account by almost 70,000 people.