María Salud Ramírez Caballero, Woman Believed to Have Inspired 'Mama Coco,' Dead at 109
etonline.com, has died. Caballero died in her hometown, Santa Fe de la Laguna, where she was born on Sept. 16, 1913, TMZ reported, citing Roberto Monroy, the Secretary of Tourism for the Mexican state of Michoacan.
She was 109 years old. While she had come to be known locally as Mama Coco — a reference to the titular character of Disney Pixar's 2017 animated film — Disney has not formally credited Caballero as the inspiration for the character, despite the undeniable likeness between them.
In 2017, reported that the Oscar-winning film's production team based the animated multi-generational family «on real-world families with whom they embedded while visiting the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Guanajuato between 2011 and 2013.» Caballero reportedly claimed she had been photographed by the production team.
María Salud Ramírez Caballero, mejor conocida como «Mamá Coco», falleció a sus 109 años en su natal pueblo purépecha, Santa Fe de la Laguna.
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