Kern Magazine sat down with Emmy Award-winning journalist and KGET-17 morning anchor Gabriela Rosales — former Miss World Guatemala, four-time Emmy winner, and Bakersfield's newest community voice — for an in-depth conversation about resilience, motherhood, and what it means to start over.
Rosales grew up across multiple countries alongside her father, a Guatemalan Air Force colonel turned diplomat, before finding her way into broadcasting after an unexpected moment at a Miss World charity event. Her career has spanned lifestyle programming, a California travel show, and eventually news anchoring and meteorology.
A Story of Resilience
In the interview, Rosales speaks openly about navigating profound personal loss — including the deaths of her father and brother, her mother's declining health, and going through a divorce while pregnant — all while continuing to show up on live television every morning.
She also shares her philosophy on co-parenting, the importance of humility in journalism, and what drew her to Bakersfield after years in Los Angeles.
Finding Peace in Kern County
Rosales describes her move to Bakersfield as one of the most meaningful decisions of her life — drawn to the community's warmth, short commutes, and the sense of neighbors actually knowing each other. She now anchors the morning news at KGET-17 and continues her work with Telemundo Bakersfield.
Read the full interview — including her advice on co-parenting, her favorite local restaurants, and a message for mothers navigating difficult seasons — at Kern Magazine.
Originally published in Kern Magazine.
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