Sin Senos no hay Paraíso
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Sin Senos no hay Paraíso (Without Breasts There Is No Paradise) is a RTI Colombia
–Telemundo
remake and loose adaptation of the original Colombia
n series Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso
. The series is based on investigative journalist Gustavo Bolivar
's debut novel
and features an attractive young prostitute
who desires to have massive breast implants in order to attract a rich cocaine smuggler. It is also based on a true story. The series premiered on June 16, 2008; its debut drew 749,000 adults aged 18 to 49, making it one of the network's most-watched premieres ever.This telenovela was sold to 23 countries around the world.
), a young woman in Pereira, Colombia
, is willing to risk everything in order to escape the poverty she lives in and fulfill her dreams - even if this means putting her life and her integrity in jeopardy. Her mother Hilda (Catherine Siachoque
), a lovely hard working woman with no resources to provide her children with luxuries, expends boundless energy in her efforts to push both her children, Catalina and Bayron (Juan Diego Sánchez) to prosper. In spite of their mother's efforts, Byron and Catalina's situation is filled with poverty and need.
Catalina is beautiful, but not as voluptuous as her friends who render sexual services as "call girls" to powerful men in the drug trafficking world. Yésica "La diabla" (María Fernanda Yépez
), Catalina's best friend, entered the world of "call girls" with her own business: recruiting, selecting, and leading groups of women for whom the drug traffickers pay in advance to receive sexual services. Yesica introduces Catalina to this culture, convincing her that this is the only way she has to get away from her poverty. Once inside, Catalina falls into the manipulative hands of Lorena (Aylín Mújica
), Yesica's equivalent in México, who together with Martinez, an important member of the Juarez Cartel, convinces inexperienced young women from Colombia to undergo breast surgery as a means of obtaining a better life in another country. What they don't know is that in reality he uses them as "mules", sending them to Mexico while smuggling cocaine in their implants.
Catalina, dazzled by a world of riches and a life full of luxuries, decides not to continue her relationship with her boyfriend Albeiro, a young man from her town who has very few ambitions, but loves her with all his heart. She decides to search for someone who can pay for or finance her surgery of silicon breast implants since, according to her belief, this will provide her the fame and wealth she longs for.
In the end, Catalina begins to remember how hard her life has been since she became a pre-paid girl - having an illegal abortion due to being raped by three men, the struggles she faced in order to get her breast augmented and the loss of her breast implants due to medical complications, the death of her brother Bayron, finding out that her mother and Albeiro (her boyfriend), were having a romantic relationship behind her back which resulted in her mother becoming pregnant, finally getting kicked out of her own house by Marcial her drug-dealer husband, after Yésica betrayed her and told Marcial that Catalina had lied to him (when in reality she felt disgust towards him) as well as the fact that she had a boyfriend back home who had cheated on her with her own mother. Overall she is left feeling lost, forgotten, betrayed and alone. All these events cause Catalina to lose the will to live, and she tries to commit suicide but does not find the courage to pull through, so she decides to seek revenge and kill Yésica for betraying her by inviting Yésica to a café and calling the hired killers, giving them the directions that Yésica is dressed a certain way and sitting at a table by herself reading a book. The killers do their job and kill the girl by shooting her three times in the back, later to be shown that the girl killed is Catalina, who had a change of mind; that instead of killing Yésica, she decided to plot her own assassination instead by disguising herself as Yésica. Before getting killed, Catalina wrote in the book she was holding the line which gave the series its title, "It's a lie - without breasts there is NO paradise."
's heroine is a prepago, or "pre-paid girl", which means she sells her services around-the-clock for a set period, hoping to make extra money.
The screenwriter says Paraíso highlights an unflattering part of his country: teenagers in the Colombian narco-culture getting breast implants. According to Bolivar, he didn't imagine it would come to touch on a universal theme: "beauty based in vanity and its connection with money" and noted that no other book
had denounced the drug dealers in such bad terms, the ignorant mothers who confuse love for their daughters with pimping, and the unscrupulous plastic surgeons.
Bolívar says the story is based on real-life conditions facing child prostitutes in the province (departamento) of Putumayo, Colombia. There he met two girls who were desperate for silicone breast implants. One told him that she got her operation in exchange for sex. Unfortunately, the doctor used a pair of used implants that led to allergic reactions and infection.
Telemundo began shooting the series at Telemundo's production centers in Bogotá and Girardot, Colombia, as well as its studio in Sinaloa, Mexico, on April 15, 2008. As with most of its soap operas, the network broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3 until late October, when the network briefly canceled the translations. Captions were restored the following April. A version with on-screen English subtitles debuted on Mun2 in 2009.
commissioned Universal Media Studios to produce an English language version of the serial, using a different cast and script.
. By August, the series had reached 949,000 adults, constituting a 31% share of the Spanish language television networks of the week. The series averaged nearly 1.9 million 18-to-49 viewers in November. However, the series lost a big part of its audience dropping to 1.1 million 18-to-49 viewers in April 2009 and prefessional reviews from magazines like TV y Novelas dropped from scores of mostly tens and nines during the success peak of the series to an all-time low score of five out of ten. The series ended with a rating of eight.
RTI Colombia
RTI Colombia, also known as Radio Televisión Interamericana , is a Colombian television production company. It aired 14.5 per week of programming each week in 1993....
–Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
remake and loose adaptation of the original Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n series Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso
Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso
Sin tetas no hay paraíso is a famous Colombian television series, produced and aired by Caracol TV. The show is based on the best-selling novel with the same name written by Gustavo Bolivar....
. The series is based on investigative journalist Gustavo Bolivar
Gustavo Bolivar
Gustavo Bolívar Moreno is a Colombian author, screenwriter and journalist. He published several books before the best-seller Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso brought him international fame...
's debut novel
Debut novel
A debut novel is the first novel an author publishes. Debut novels are the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to publish in the future...
and features an attractive young prostitute
Prostitution
Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called a prostitute and the person who receives such services is known by a multitude of terms, including a "john". Prostitution is one of...
who desires to have massive breast implants in order to attract a rich cocaine smuggler. It is also based on a true story. The series premiered on June 16, 2008; its debut drew 749,000 adults aged 18 to 49, making it one of the network's most-watched premieres ever.This telenovela was sold to 23 countries around the world.
Plot
Catalina Santana (Carmen VillalobosCarmen Villalobos
Carmen Villalobos is a Colombian actress, most recognized for her supporting roles in several telenovelas including La Tormenta and Amores de Mercado...
), a young woman in Pereira, Colombia
Pereira, Colombia
Pereira is the capital city of the Colombian department of Risaralda. It stands in the center of the western region of the country, located in a small valley that descends from a part of the western Andes mountain chain. Its strategic location in the coffee producing area makes the city an urban...
, is willing to risk everything in order to escape the poverty she lives in and fulfill her dreams - even if this means putting her life and her integrity in jeopardy. Her mother Hilda (Catherine Siachoque
Catherine Siachoque
'Catherine Siachoque is a Colombian actress best known for her roles in numerous telenovelas.-Career:...
), a lovely hard working woman with no resources to provide her children with luxuries, expends boundless energy in her efforts to push both her children, Catalina and Bayron (Juan Diego Sánchez) to prosper. In spite of their mother's efforts, Byron and Catalina's situation is filled with poverty and need.
Catalina is beautiful, but not as voluptuous as her friends who render sexual services as "call girls" to powerful men in the drug trafficking world. Yésica "La diabla" (María Fernanda Yépez
María Fernanda Yépez
María Fernanda Yépes is a Colombian actress and model. She is mostly known for playing Yésica "La Diabla", a crude and manipulative girl who worked recruiting, selecting, and leading groups of women for whom drug dealers would pay in advance to receive sexual services in return in the Telemundo...
), Catalina's best friend, entered the world of "call girls" with her own business: recruiting, selecting, and leading groups of women for whom the drug traffickers pay in advance to receive sexual services. Yesica introduces Catalina to this culture, convincing her that this is the only way she has to get away from her poverty. Once inside, Catalina falls into the manipulative hands of Lorena (Aylín Mújica
Aylín Mújica
Aylín Mújica is a Cuban actress, model, and ballet dancer who currently lives in Mexico City, Mexico.- Career :Mújica began modeling at age 13. She posed nude in the Spanish magazine Interviu and appeared in a sexy photoshoot at the H para Hombres magazine as well...
), Yesica's equivalent in México, who together with Martinez, an important member of the Juarez Cartel, convinces inexperienced young women from Colombia to undergo breast surgery as a means of obtaining a better life in another country. What they don't know is that in reality he uses them as "mules", sending them to Mexico while smuggling cocaine in their implants.
Catalina, dazzled by a world of riches and a life full of luxuries, decides not to continue her relationship with her boyfriend Albeiro, a young man from her town who has very few ambitions, but loves her with all his heart. She decides to search for someone who can pay for or finance her surgery of silicon breast implants since, according to her belief, this will provide her the fame and wealth she longs for.
In the end, Catalina begins to remember how hard her life has been since she became a pre-paid girl - having an illegal abortion due to being raped by three men, the struggles she faced in order to get her breast augmented and the loss of her breast implants due to medical complications, the death of her brother Bayron, finding out that her mother and Albeiro (her boyfriend), were having a romantic relationship behind her back which resulted in her mother becoming pregnant, finally getting kicked out of her own house by Marcial her drug-dealer husband, after Yésica betrayed her and told Marcial that Catalina had lied to him (when in reality she felt disgust towards him) as well as the fact that she had a boyfriend back home who had cheated on her with her own mother. Overall she is left feeling lost, forgotten, betrayed and alone. All these events cause Catalina to lose the will to live, and she tries to commit suicide but does not find the courage to pull through, so she decides to seek revenge and kill Yésica for betraying her by inviting Yésica to a café and calling the hired killers, giving them the directions that Yésica is dressed a certain way and sitting at a table by herself reading a book. The killers do their job and kill the girl by shooting her three times in the back, later to be shown that the girl killed is Catalina, who had a change of mind; that instead of killing Yésica, she decided to plot her own assassination instead by disguising herself as Yésica. Before getting killed, Catalina wrote in the book she was holding the line which gave the series its title, "It's a lie - without breasts there is NO paradise."
Production
Gustavo BolivarGustavo Bolivar
Gustavo Bolívar Moreno is a Colombian author, screenwriter and journalist. He published several books before the best-seller Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso brought him international fame...
's heroine is a prepago, or "pre-paid girl", which means she sells her services around-the-clock for a set period, hoping to make extra money.
The screenwriter says Paraíso highlights an unflattering part of his country: teenagers in the Colombian narco-culture getting breast implants. According to Bolivar, he didn't imagine it would come to touch on a universal theme: "beauty based in vanity and its connection with money" and noted that no other book
had denounced the drug dealers in such bad terms, the ignorant mothers who confuse love for their daughters with pimping, and the unscrupulous plastic surgeons.
Bolívar says the story is based on real-life conditions facing child prostitutes in the province (departamento) of Putumayo, Colombia. There he met two girls who were desperate for silicone breast implants. One told him that she got her operation in exchange for sex. Unfortunately, the doctor used a pair of used implants that led to allergic reactions and infection.
Telemundo began shooting the series at Telemundo's production centers in Bogotá and Girardot, Colombia, as well as its studio in Sinaloa, Mexico, on April 15, 2008. As with most of its soap operas, the network broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3 until late October, when the network briefly canceled the translations. Captions were restored the following April. A version with on-screen English subtitles debuted on Mun2 in 2009.
Cast
Main Cast in Order of Appearance| Actor | Character | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| Carmen Villalobos Carmen Villalobos Carmen Villalobos is a Colombian actress, most recognized for her supporting roles in several telenovelas including La Tormenta and Amores de Mercado... |
Catalina Santana | Main heroine, aspires to be an actress |
| Catherine Siachoque Catherine Siachoque 'Catherine Siachoque is a Colombian actress best known for her roles in numerous telenovelas.-Career:... |
Hilda Santana | Catalina and Bayron's mother, later she is in love with Albeiro |
| María Fernanda Yépez María Fernanda Yépez María Fernanda Yépes is a Colombian actress and model. She is mostly known for playing Yésica "La Diabla", a crude and manipulative girl who worked recruiting, selecting, and leading groups of women for whom drug dealers would pay in advance to receive sexual services in return in the Telemundo... |
Yésica "La diabla" Franco | Catalina's best friend, villain, boss of the pre-paid girls |
| Aylín Mújica Aylín Mújica Aylín Mújica is a Cuban actress, model, and ballet dancer who currently lives in Mexico City, Mexico.- Career :Mújica began modeling at age 13. She posed nude in the Spanish magazine Interviu and appeared in a sexy photoshoot at the H para Hombres magazine as well... |
Lorena Magallanes | Works with Martínez; mother of Julieta |
| Juan Diego Sánchez | Bayron Santana | Hilda's son; Catalina's brother who's hired as a hitman |
| Fabián Ríos | Albeiro Manrique | Catalina's long term boyfriend and later Hilda's lover |
| Gregorio Pernía | Aurelio "Titi" Jaramillo | Drug dealer; in love with Catalina; villain |
| Guillermo Quintanilla | Benjamin "Mariño" Martínez García | Works with Lorena; in love with her |
| Alejandra Pinzón | Paola | Catalina's friend; pre-paid girl; wants a deeper relationship with Titi |
| Linda Baldrich | Natalia | Trafficked with drugs in breasts; later held captive by Fernando Rey |
| Carolina Sepúlveda | Ximena | Catalina's friend; in love with Bayron; pre-paid girl |
| Carolina Betancourt | Vanessa | Catalina's friend; pre-paid girl; Jota's ex-girlfriend |
| Laura Londoño | Lina Arango | Trafficked with drugs in breasts; later held captive by Fernando Rey |
| Sofia Stamatiades Sofía Stamatiades Sofía Lama Stamatiades is a Mexican actress.Sofia Lama has performed in several types of television shows, including telenovelas and variety shows.-TV Roles:... |
Julieta Riva Palas | Lorena's daughter and then later on J's girlfriend |
| Roberto Mateos | José Miguel Cárdenas | Drug dealer; in an American prison |
| Gabriel Porras Gabriel Porras Gabriel Porras is a Mexican actor. He began his acting career working for TV Azteca in telenovelas like "Tres Veces Sofia" along with Mexican diva Lucía Méndez and "El Tio Alberto"... |
Fernando Rey | Drug dealer and friend of Martínez; villain |
| Ramiro Meneses | Ramiro Duque / "Hombre Oscuro" | Drug dealer |
| Danilo Santos | Cardona | Chief of Titi; partner of Morón; in prison |
| Alí Humar | Pablo Morón | Chief of the drug dealers |
| Juan Pablo Shuk | Mauricio Contento | Colombian surgeon who implants drugs in augmented breasts |
| César Mora | Marcial Sánchez | Catalina's former husband; Yésica's husband |
English release
NBC UniversalNBC Universal
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commissioned Universal Media Studios to produce an English language version of the serial, using a different cast and script.
International release
- Nova TV started to air this telenovela on September 1, 2008 and Diema FamilyDiema FamilyDiema Family is a bulgarian television channel, aimed at family audiences, part of Nova Broadcasting Group, ownd by Modern Times Group. Television was established in 1999 under the name Alexandra TV. Currently Diema Family is aimed at families, mainly Latin American and broadcast animation series...
on February 16, 2009 in BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east... - TV KosavaTV KošavaTV Košava is a former Serbian television station with national licence. It broadcasted across Serbia in time-sharing with children's channel Happy TV, and then merged into this TV, and now bears the name of Happy TV....
started to air this telenovela on November 15, 2008 and MHCMHC-Biology:*Myosin heavy chain - part of the motor protein myosin's quaternary protein structure*Major histocompatibility complex - a highly polymorphic region on chromosome 6 with genes particularly involved in immune functions-Colleges:...
on October 17, 2011 in SerbiaSerbiaSerbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
. - Sitel TV channel started to air this telenovela on April 13, 2009 in Macedonia.
- TelelatinoTelelatinoTelelatino, also referred to as TLN, is a Canadian Category A Specialty channel broadcasting general interest programming from Canada and around the world, primarily in Italian and Spanish...
started to air the telenovela with English subtitles on May 11, 2009 in Canada. - Acasa TV started to air the telenovela on June 22, 2009 in RomaniaRomaniaRomania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
. - Cool TVCool TVCool TV is a Hungarian television channel, which migrated to Romania after being threatened with closure by Hungarian authorities. The channel was launched in 2004 in the Hungarian language, and in 2005 it also started broadcasting cool stuff....
started to air this telenovela on December, 2008 in Hungary.
Reception
The episode debuted in June 2008 with nearly 750,000 viewers adults 18 to 49, per Nielsen Media ResearchNielsen Media Research
Nielsen Media Research is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre films and newspapers...
. By August, the series had reached 949,000 adults, constituting a 31% share of the Spanish language television networks of the week. The series averaged nearly 1.9 million 18-to-49 viewers in November. However, the series lost a big part of its audience dropping to 1.1 million 18-to-49 viewers in April 2009 and prefessional reviews from magazines like TV y Novelas dropped from scores of mostly tens and nines during the success peak of the series to an all-time low score of five out of ten. The series ended with a rating of eight.