Personal Life
A DNA test of Rodriguez, performed by the television program "Finding Your Roots", on PBS, stated that her ancestry is 75% European, 23% African, and 2% Native American. She also stated on the program that there was some racial conflict between her families since her Puerto Rican father, Rafael, was light skinned and her Dominican mother, Carmen, had a dark complexion.
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