SAN DIEGO — Jessica Sanchez is living proof that it may be time to revise F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famed dictum that here are “no second acts in American lives.”

On Sept. 24, the very pregnant 30-year-old Chula Vista native sang her way to first-place honors — and $1 million in prize money, to be paid in annual annuities — on the nationally televised “America’s Got Talent.” Her win came 13 years after she placed second on “American Idol,” and a full two decades after she competed as a 10-year-old contestant on the 2006 debut season of “America’s Got Talent.”

The 5-foot-1-inch singer with a very big voice is due to give birth to her first child, a girl, in two weeks. She still sounded giddy about her “America’s Got Talent” triumph during a phone interview with The San Diego Union-Tribune.

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