Catalina Santana Exists in Real Life: Meet the Woman Behind the Character of Carmen Villalobos | The end of paradise | Netflix soap opera nnda nnlt | CHEKA

Carmen Villalobos placeholder image became famous playing Catalina Santana in the telenovela “Sin senos no hay paraíso,” which over the years has become one of the most acclaimed franchises of the last two decades, both in the United States and in Latin America. This story also came to Spain.

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Since 2008, Colombian actress gave birth to this character, which marked a before and after in his artistic career. The story of Catalina Santana, Titi and La Diabla ended his cycle with “The end of heaven” to December 2019. However, the success of the telenovela remains in place as it has earned a special place in the hearts of the audience.

Carmen Villalobos placeholder image has passed the plot like Catalina Santana in almost all its seasons. Thus, the actress gained international popularity and established herself as one of the most famous Colombian performers of her generation and one of the most prominent on television in Latin America.

“I owe him almost everything. The audience opened their doors to me and recognized me thanks to that character and I enjoyed myself from the first to the last day. It was an experience that marked my life, that marked my career. I will always say that there is a before and after of Breastless, there is no heaven, ”said the Colombian actress in an interview with People en Español in 2016, acknowledging that playing Catalina marked a before and after in her acting career.

What few know is that the character who catapulted fame Carmen Villalobos placeholder image, Catalina Santana, exists in real life. The story we’ve all seen in “Without breast there is no heaven”, “Without breast there is no heaven” and “The end of heaven” It is based on real events.

Gustavo Bolivar is the author of the novel which has been adapted for television. In his opinion column for the Colombian newspaper Cuarto de hora, he stated that the true identity of Catalina Santana he was protected. “The commitment with her was never to tell her true identity.”

According to Bolívar, the secret was kept so carefully that not even the real Catalina’s mother knew this was her daughter’s story when the telenovela was released.

“She [refiriéndose a la verdadera Catalina] She told me that she was eager to watch the promos and that she would sit and watch it with her mother, even though she didn’t know the series was based on her daughter’s story, “the Colombian writer wrote to the aforementioned media.

After the first chapter of “Without breast there is no paradise”, Bolivar She called the young woman to find out what she liked about the series, and especially her character, and told her an anecdote she always remembers.

“She told me that her mother, seeing how drug traffickers humiliated Catalina, without knowing it was her daughter, told her: ‘If mom sees what happens to those girls for not studying, for not having self-esteem, for having always wanted the easy life “?”, the real Catalina Santana told him.

However, the saddest part of the conversation was the part where the young woman told Bolívar: “If my mother had told me 5 years ago, I don’t know, maybe I won’t go down that path,” she revealed.

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