Born in Barranquilla (Colombia) on July 10, 1972, Sofia enjoyed a happy fun-filled childhood together with her five brothers and sisters and many cousins. "Barbies were my obsession", says "La Toti", her family's nickname for her. As a child she was quiet and very studious; she loved everything having to do with music, as her whole family sings, dances and plays a musical instrument. Like any little girl her age, her favorite group was "Menudo". When she was little, she had a good time on weekends on her father's farm in Magdalena, where she rode horses, swam in the river and "chased chickens", as she herself commented. She went to Marymount, a private bilingual elementary school, which is why she speaks English. Sofia places great value on friendship. "I have lifelong friends, very close friends with whom I get together every time I go back to Colombia", she tells us. "I was never your typical heartbreaker." Sofia had her first boyfriend when she was 14 and he is the father of her only son and light of her life, Manolo, now 8. "I got married when I was 18 years old and very much in love." Speaking to Sofia, one notices the love she feels for her son and her delight in motherhood. "Eventually, I'd like to have another child, preferably a girl."