Vanessa Lachey
Lachey in 2014
Birth Name: Vanessa Joy Minnillo
Place of Birth: Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines
Date of Birth: November 9, 1980
Ethnicity:
*50% Filipino
*25% Italian
*12.5% Irish
*12.5% Ashkenazi Jewish
Vanessa Lachey, previously credited under her birth name, Vanessa Minnillo, is an American television personality and host, beauty queen, model, and actress. She was Miss South Carolina Teen USA 1998 and Miss Teen USA 1998, and hosted Total Request Live on MTV from 2003 to 2007. Vanessa is married to singer Nick Lachey, with whom she has three children.
She was born in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines. Vanessa’s father, Vincent Charles Minnillo, an American Air Force officer, is caucasian, and is of one half Italian, one quarter Russian Jewish, and one quarter Irish, descent. Vanessa’s mother, Helen Ramos (Bercero), is a Filipina from Manila. Vanessa was raised in Washington, California, Nevada, and Florida, as well as Germany and Japan, eventually settling in Charleston, South Carolina.
Vanessa’s paternal grandfather was Vincent John Minnillo (the son of Christopher R. Minnillo and Ann/Anna Theresa Defelice). Vincent was born in Pennsylvania, to parents who were also born in the state. Christopher was the son of Italian emigrants, Francesco Minnillo and Maria Carolina Federico, from Matrice, Campobasso, Molise. Ann was the daughter of Italian emigrants, Savino Defelice/di Felice, from Rivisondoli, Abruzzo, and Maria Ramicone.
Vanessa’s paternal grandmother was Marilyn Edith Levy (the daughter of Julius Levy and Anna Beatrice Collins). Marilyn was born in Ohio. Julius was born in Ohio, to Russian Jewish parents, Henry Levy and Mary. Anna was also born in Ohio, to Irish immigrants, James Collins, from Mayo, and Bridget Agnes McGinty.
Vanessa’s maternal grandfather was named Froilan Bercero.
Vanessa’s maternal grandmother was named Julita Ramos.
Lachey in 2009, photos by Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Sources: http://web.archive.org
Birth record of Vanessa Lachey – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Vanessa’s parents – https://familysearch.org
Birth record of Vanessa’s paternal great-great-grandfather, Francesco Minnillo – https://www.familysearch.org
Birth record of Vanessa’s paternal great-great-grandmother, Maria Carolina Federico – https://www.familysearch.org
Vanessa’s paternal great-grandparents, Julius Levy and Anna Beatrice Collins, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
maybe the mom was a former prostitute that’s why she’s afraid to admit she’s filipino. i mean, look where she was born… clark air base. the mother must have worked one of the bars in the red light district of angeles, di ba?
yes, a lot of Filipinos and some Japanese will lie and say they are Hawaiian or polynesian. Tia Carera is Filipino and says she is Samoan. So many Vietnamese will lie and say that they are Filipino Thai , or Cambodian. So many Chinese will lie and say they are Malaysian, Thai, indonesian.
Thai or Siam, Filipinos, Indonesian, Cambodians, Laotians , Malaysian, Singapore and Burma are the true Malayan asians and they can spot chinese when they see one.
Iranians call themselves Persians because they don’t want people to know they are Iranians, and tell people they are French or Italian too.
Because, whites cannot tell the difference and they know this,so they lie.
So glad to come across Japanese, Chinese or Koreans who are proud to say what they really are.
Common you look it , so your not fooling anyone except the whites and blacks.
Whatever helps you sleep
It is sad that she appears embarassed about admitting to her race, I have Filipino friends that feel the same way and often say they wish their ethnicity contributed more to society like Chinese, Japanese, Koreans etc. Most of them even dislike their own food and would prefer food from other cultures. I have spoken to my Chinese and Japanese friends and they are proud of their culture, food, ethnicity everything. Perhaps one day in my lifetime Filipinos would have the same pride but I was told not to hold my breath.
i’d be humble, i know the fact that Phils is a poor country but with big efforts to progress and be one of the highly respected countries in asia. We have great potentials but we do not mainly benefit from them. I know that there are a lot of problems here—poverty, low quality education in cheap schools, low standard living, corruption, etc but i don’t find them reasons to degrade my own race. try to learn our early history way back before Spaniards came, and let us dedicate our blood and sweat for this country, because in turn it is for our own families and the glory of our nation. peace y’all.
@Lalaine my father is filipino and he is part negrito but looks chinese with light browns skin , my friend he is filipino and his grandmother is negrito and he looks mexican and he is proud of it.In Spain many spaniards consider filipinos mulattos because their skin color and part negroid feautures yes in spain you are a mulatto , buy the way where filipinos got their brown skin? and the original malays are black my friend is from malaysia he is a native and he is black . I am multiracial women from Spain i also have spanish blood i can prove it , many filipinos don’t have spanish blood and alot of them told me they were part spanish only 5% of filipinos have spanish blood .Filipinos want to be mexican too , you were told by your spanish masters that black is inferior and white are superior get over it we are all human .