Janaína Barbosa, former TV presenter, dies at age 48

The death was confirmed to g1 by presenter Otávio Mesquita, Janaína's ex-husband, who lamented the news.

"I still don't know how it happened, but I sent a message to her mother. She [Janaína] was a very correct person, we were married 20 years ago. I have respect for her", he declared.

The death also provoked expressions of grief among friends and loved ones. Marina Mantega, daughter of former minister Guido Mantega, mourned the loss in a post on social media.

"No words to describe what I'm feeling. Literally helpless. Still not believing all of this... I love you so much! You will be missed, sorely missed in our lives," he wrote.

Janaína also invested in her acting career and participated in the series "Casos e Acasos", shown by Globo in 2008. Throughout her artistic career, she worked as a dancer, theater producer and muse of the samba school Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel.

The presenter was married to Otávio Mesquita. The wedding took place in 2002 and brought together several celebrities, including presenter Luciana Gimenez and businessman Roberto Justus.

In 2010, Janaína married again, this time with businessman Felipe Faria, grandson of Aloysio de Andrade Faria, founder of Banco Alfa. The ceremony took place by the sea, on Comandatuba Island, in Bahia. The couple had two sons, Bernardo and Frederico.

In recent years, Janaína Barbosa de Siqueira began working in the field of Psychology. Graduated in Psychology and Journalism, she was a psychoanalyst and worked in an office.

She was also a collaborator at the Subject and Body Research Laboratory (SuCor), at the USP Psychology Institute, linked to the CNPq Research Group: Interdisciplinary Group for Studies and Research in Psychosomatics.

He had experience in Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Hospital Psychology and Psychosomatics. She also worked as a collaborating hospital psychologist at the USP University Hospital.