Venezuela’s first lady in waiting is a glamorous brunette and a social-media influencer, with more than half a million followers on Instagram.

But Fabiana Rosales, 26, isn’t selling beauty products or designer clothing. She’s calling for revolution.

And the young journalist and mother is not afraid to use her newfound celebrity as the wife of the country’s interim president Juan Guaidó, 35, to push for change.

Since Guaidó assumed office in January as the president of the National Assembly, Rosales has been at his side, helping him lead demonstrations against dictator Nicolas Maduro, handing out humanitarian aid at hospitals during recent blackouts and appealing directly to military families to break with Maduro and join forces with her husband.

“Maybe you are a mother, a fiancée, a daughter or a sister of someone in the military,” said Rosales in social-media posts. “I speak to you to convince those men in your lives to participate in the change that is necessary in Venezuela.”

Although her family has endured death threats and a menacing visit from Maduro’s brutal “colectivos,” or death squads, Rosales has stood by her husband in his bid to take over the government from Maduro, who has refused to step down after sham elections in May 2018.

Maduro’s widely condemned inauguration in January led to the current standoff in the country, now enduring a humanitarian crisis with a crumbling infrastructure and lack of food and medicine.

“Smiling in a dictatorship is an act of rebellion,” the slight, telegenic Rosales is fond of reminding demonstrators at rallies.

Rosales, who describes herself simply as “mother to Miranda Eugenia,” the couple’s toddler daughter, came of age in a dictatorship. She was born in 1992 in a small town in northern Venezuela, when former dictator Hugo Chavez conducted his first coup attempts to take over the country. She was 7 years old when Chavez was sworn in as president in 1999 and endured the effects of his Bolivarian Marxist revolution firsthand as she accompanied her farmer father, Carlos, on weekend trips to sell his produce at markets in Caracas only to have the National Guard strip him of half his earnings.

“Since I was a girl, I witnessed the abuses that farmers suffered,” she recently told the Caracas Chronicles, an English-language independent newspaper.

In 2013 her father suffered a stroke and died because of the chronic shortages that have plagued hospitals in the country under Chavez and Maduro, she said.

“They had neither the pill nor an ambulance,” said Rosales. “Finally, someone found a vehicle, but it had no brakes. The doctor waited, but when the car arrived, he was dead.”

She met Guaidó at an opposition youth conference in 2011, when she was 18, and the two have been together ever since.

“When we started dating, I thought he was really closed off and that I couldn’t expect him to express his feelings,” she told the Caracas Chronicles. “But after our daughter … was born … he experienced a transformation and now he’s more expressive. Well, a bit more. He has a light, relaxed and joyful spirit. He dances well, even drums.”

And despite being in the international spotlight, Rosales, who said she gets her inspiration from her reporter mother, balks at the description of “First Lady,” claiming the “title is too big for me.”

“I’m here to serve,” said Rosales. “And I know who I am married to. Juan worked at a transnational company where he earned a good salary. He left that job to distribute leaflets, to protest and to get beaten down by repression. My husband is madly in love with this country. And people in love don’t fight, we embrace.”