She is the daughter of the architect Nuno Portas and of his second wife, Margarida Maria Gomes de Sousa Lobo and half sister of the politicians
Miguel Portas and
Paulo Portas. Catarina became a journalist in 1988 and worked on the radio (
Correio da Manhã Rádio and
Rádio Comercial) and on television, firstly in
RTP (
Onda Curta,
Falatório,
Raios e Coriscos and
Frou Frou), and then in
SIC. Since 2004, she became a businesswoman, with the inauguration of the
A Vida Portuguesa stores, dedicated to the reselling of
vintage Portuguese brands. In December 2009, she was nominated by
Monocle magazine as one of the twenty worldwide names that deserve "a bigger stage". ==References==