Maria Shriver - or am I getting her and the maid confused? Sorry :-)

IIRC, there was a Maria or Consuelo or something P3/4 female included with Poser, slightly more orange tinted than Posette so probably safe to assume she was supposed to be a Latina. I think there were a couple of other variations as well. The Zygote Asian female from that era is the only explicitly specified ethnic figure I recall, back then at least.

"Unless you live in the Phillipines where it is incredibly popular amongst locals as a first name"

Probably pretty popular in Italy as well.  

 

 

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