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With her parents teachings of hard work and high values, Mercado turned her makeup skills into a career. She was a celebrity makeup artist who worked in magazines, TV and film. She also took her designing skills and launched her first collection of dresses in 2013 celebrating the beauty of plus size women around the world.

In 2013, Mercado graduated from Tony Robbins Mastery University. She promotes body diversity and is now a lifestyle coach that inspires women to embrace their authentic beauty and self love and acceptance.

In 2011, Mercado featured on National Geographic Channel's Taboo. She has appeared on National and International Television, From Telemundo and Univision and is currently working as a special correspondent with Emmy award winning show Dr. Phil and The Doctors on CBS.SHe is considered one of the top 6 influential latinas to follow by Latina Magazine and Univsion. In 2012 and 2013, she starred in season one and two of NuvoTV's reality television show Curvy Girls which captured the daily life of four plus-size models as they realized their dreams in the fashion world. In June 2013, she was a special guest on The Ricki Lake Show, speaking about plus-size swim fashions. She is currently a co-host on a new entertainment talkshow produced by Dr.Phil called Face The Truth on CBS and has her book coming out in 2019 with publishing company Harper Collins One.

After letting her weight increase to well over 400 pounds, Mercado managed to start losing weight to deal with mobility issues and embarrassment as she became larger and larger. She was chosen to be the face of Full Figured Fashion Week in 2010 still weighing over 350 pounds. By 2012, she had gotten her weight down to 178 pounds. Though once a size 32/34 at her biggest, she is currently a size 12, and now advocates that it is unhealthy for other women to be overweight. In August 2017 Mercado implied to US weekly that she is currently about 160 pounds.

Ms. Mercado lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and Los Angeles, California. She is a single mom of three children, a daughter (born 2000) and two sons (born 2006 and 2007).

Mercado attended Bishop Gorman High School and left in 1999. She was one of five Latinos who attended the private school. In high school, she was a 'tomboy' and felt that she did not fit in because of her size (which has driven her to promote plus-size diversity in the entertainment industry). She was called "a big girl with a pretty face" or "the girl with the pretty face and the big ass", and was bullied because of her weight. Mercado studied Business Management at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Rosie Mercado (born March 28, 1980) is an American plus-size model, celebrity makeup artist, fashion designer and television personality of Mexican descent. She is best known for starring in reality television show Curvy Girls on NuvoTV and featuring on National Geographic Channel's Taboo. She is currently a special correspondent and life coach on Emmy award winning shows The Doctors and Dr. Phil and now a co-host on a new entertainment talk show called Face The Truth on Fox.