Sadness also appeared in the last days of 2023. On December 29, it was announced that the actress and star Rossy Mendoza "La cintura más breve de México" died at the age of 80 as a result of cardiac arrest. With her departure also goes the history of a time of splendor for Mexican vedetismo.
Until the final stretch of her life, she defended and dignified the figure of the star within the national show, as can be seen with her appearance in the documentary Bellas de noche (2016), by María José Cuevas. Off-camera, she also did it with various interviews to position herself against the stigma that “cabaret women” were “encuatrices.”
Besides being an accomplished entertainer, she was also a producer, writer and metaphysician with published a book called "Universos en evolución".
With her death, Rossy Mendoza inherits a legacy of Vedetismo in Mexico that, in his voice and conviction, positioned himself as an artistic, cultural and social alternative that, with the passage of time, has sought to be distorted. Her recognition of the starlets and nightlife that entertained the population of yesteryear was so great that she preferred to give herself body and soul to the cabaret rather than succumb to the plots of tears and broken hearts on television.
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