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Born on May 19, 1965 in Santiago, Chile to father Enzo Bolocco, and mother Rose Marie Fonck. Silbings, Juan Pablo, Verónica, Diana and Rodrigo (deceased).
Attended primary and secondary school at the Santiago College school. Took a year of Civil Engineering at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile before dropping out to pursue Constume Design at Incacea Institute.
Chosen Miss Chile for Miss Universe on April 20, 1987. Won the Miss Universe beauty contest on May 26, 1987, the first Chilean in doing so.
During her year-long reign, she settled in Los Angeles, California.
Began a television career in Chile with the show Porque hoy es sábado (Because it's Saturday) on National Television. She then co-hosted Martes 13 (Tuesday the 13th) on Canal 13.
She married American TV producer Michael Young on March, 1990, at the Palacio Cousiño in Santiago, Chile. The local media covered the event as if it were a royal wedding.
Moved to Miami, Florida to work as anchor-women for the Spanish section at CNN on June, 1990. Then, on Telemundo, where she hosted the show La buena vida (The Good Life), Ocurrió así (The Way It Happened) and Esta noche con Cecilia Bolocco (Tonight With Cecilia Bolocco), for which she won two Emmy awards.
Took a starring role in the Mexican soap opera Morelia, which was aired on more than 70 countries of the Americas and Europe, including Chile.
Around the mid-90's she ended her relationship with husband Michael Young. Because there is no divorce law in Chile, she could not divorce him.
Co-hosted the closing night of the 36th Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar on February, 1995, in Chile.
In October, 1996, she took the job as co-host in one of the highest-rated shows in Chilean television history, Viva el lunes (Long Live Monday), along Kike Morandé and comedian Álvaro Salas. At the same time, she had a radio show and appeared in her own TV show La noche de Cecilia (The Night of Cecilia).
In February, 2000, she became an established hostess for the Viña del Mar Festival, with partner and long time host Antonio Vodanovic.
During this time she was romantically linked with former Viva el lunes partner Kike Morandé and songwriter Keko Yungue.
By July of 2000 there were rumors in the press that she and former Argentine president Carlos Menem, who she met while interviewing him at the Casa Rosada presidential house in Argentina, were dating.
She married 70 year-old Menem on May 26, 2001 in La Rioja, Argentina, to a full crowd.
Cecilia fulfilled the longtime dream of becoming a mother when on November 19, 2003, her first son Máximo Saúl Menem Bolocco was born in Santiago, Chile.