#4. Teresa Rodriguez

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4. Teresa Rodriguez

2010 Update

After decades of solid control, we were surprised to see Teresa showing this look early in 2010. Her hair seemed looser than ever before - almost as if she's daring something to come along and bring it down. Could she somehow keep it holding, no matter what?

This vidcap sadly shows the answer is no. A strip of hair was seized by the wind and dropped across Teresa's right eye, as she walked with an interview subject for Aqui y Ahora in January. The forum section of Wide World of Women has a complete sequence of the vidcaps which led to this disappointing moment. But what a rare slip, compared to a strong record of control for the greatest Latina locks of our time.

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2008 Update

Would you want to get your hands on this head of Super-Hair? Teresa showed this sort of shoulder-length style as she toured the U.S. in 2007 promoting her book The Daughters of Juarez. It can be loose or flexible, depending on her situation and how much teasing or spray she might use (or even curl at the ends). We checked plenty of online pictures, and saw only one where Teresa felt compelled to touch her hair to ensure its perfect position.

Or would you rather pursue this look - chin-length short, likely with spray added? She can wear both styles very well. And she remains amazingly undefeated after all these years, with everything. Admire it all (including very large-sized photos) at Rodriguez's Univision version of MySpace -- or search for her show Aqui y Ahora at the main Univision web site, although that could take some browsing to find her.

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2006 Update

Stay up after midnight on Sunday nights, and you can find wonderful alternatives to poker games on cable TV. An"Aqui y Ahora" archive show in August showed Teresa with gorgeous shoulder-length hair -- teased and doubtless sprayed around the crown for hold, but looking quite touchable and soft from the ear down. We don't know how old the archive program was, but a check of the Univision web site leads us to believe this is rather close to her current look.

And we're delighted beyond words to say we now have pictures of the classic "T-Rod" from around 1990! We made an appeal for pictures during 2006 in our monthly e-mail newsletter. A reader stunned us by adding several photos to our free Yahoo message board, including this one. The pictures show her both short and long - and a few critics complain the hair is oversprayed. But for us, that was the thrill of Teresa's style: thick perfect long hair, holding for all it's worth.

Those old vid-caps and our current collection has shown Teresa can carry a variety of styles well, and keep them all perfect. The woman who made history as a national U.S. female news anchor long before Katie Couric continues to keep us watching and marveling.

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2004 Update

In early 2004 Teresa toyed with hair as long as her shoulders -- and people who remembered the even longer locks of years gone by were rooting her on. But this vid-cap from a November "Aqui y Ahora" shows a slightly shorter, neck-length style. Here she takes the quite unusual step (for her) of tucking the hair behind her ears.

But when she turns her head a little, you can see how close this hair sits to her right eye. It's hair as risky as ever, but still kept in place with wonderful precision.

We found this picture in 2003 of an even shorter and riskier cut. We can't recall seeing Teresa's hair any closer to defeat -- but we still haven't seen it beaten, either.

And how about this glamorous and gorgeous pose? It's at the home page of Latino Broadcasting -- with hair simply daring someone or something to challenge it.

But sadly, Teresa never got back to us on sending pictures of the long look from years ago. (We fear Univision has told all its personalities to steer clear of us, for some reason.) And we were a bit distressed to find little mention of her these days on Univision's web site. Perhaps she'll making a transition to something else; she recently wrote a journalistic book on bloodshed in Juarez, Mexico. Whatever Teresa does next, we hope she doesn't drop from sight completely -- her hair remains too marvelous.

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2002 Update

Sometimes we make this web site much more complicated than it needs to be. After three years of hunting for the hairstyle of years past under the project code-name "T-Rod," we dared to ask Teresa directly by e-mail for it. She was honored to be ranked so highly (no one had told her about us) -- and she offered to send us photos of her hair old and new.

The photo above is a current shot, and shows a basic style little changed in recent years. Bangs stretching below the eyebrows only increase the riskiness of it. Yet we recently saw her on "Aqui y Ahora" seemingly without the bangs, and a sleek look combed around the right eye - firmly and precisely as always.

As of this writing, we have not received a "pelo clasico" photo we've waited so long to show you. When it comes, it'll be here - and we'll alert you.

(We'd like to use this update to clear up a little confusion, which has been reflected in our e-mail. There are two TV journalists named Teresa Rodriguez. The "other" is at a station in Austin, Texas. Her hair's nice - but we saw it fall when she was a reporter in Houston. Our T.R. remains unbeaten.)

We know from our In-Box that Teresa has fans -- but we've found no fan site to display what one writer to us called "the most beautiful woman in the world." Your best hope for pictures is to visit Univision's web site, and type in her name in the "Uniclave" box.

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