Climate Control

YANET GARCÍA HAS SINGLEHANDEDLY ENDED BORING WEATHER FORECASTS ON TELEVISION. BUT, THERE’S MORE TO HER THAN A KILLER INSTAGRAM AND SENSATIONAL SCREEN PRESENCE.

- Gabriel Guajardo

On July 26, 2014, the weekend news segment of Mexican channel, Televisa Monterrey, unveiled Yanet García as its host. From that day onwards, weather forecasts on global television were never the same. In the blink of an eye, Yanet became a phenomenon.

However, and perhaps something that few know, she disguises an entrepreneurial spirit beneath it all, one that matured at an early age—when she was only 21 years old—and long before she accumulated fame as “the world’s hottest weathergirl.”

In her native Monterrey, in Mexico’s Nuevo León, her model academy prepares women to face the challenges of a competitive industry. Although that was her first business, Yanet has had the vision to capitalise on the exposure that television offered her: four years after her first appearance on the box, she’s now a regular on Hoy, a premier Mexican daily programme. Plus, her social media has given her global fame (with nine million followers and counting), and she’s launched a line of bikinis. She’s now setting her sights on a sportswear line and taking up acting.

“Anchoring was an opportunity that was given to me. I enjoy it and I do it with a lot of love, but after making movies, I feel like that is my passion, it’s my place.”

For this shoot, our Mexican cousins travelled to Malinalco for the weekend. She was on set for hours, and finally called it a day in a wine-coloured swimsuit—she looked spectacular, obviously. At heart, Yanet is still a shy, simple girl, very sociable and—unlike many TV people—a happy person.

You spent a little more than a year in New York. What were you up to?