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Good news for those who have forged their television culture with soap operas.
Gabriela Spanic (50) alias
La usurpadora
is back with
Vivir de amor,
a fiction in which she plays the villain.
Gabriela is one of the world stars of this particular genre and she is especially famous in Spain thanks to the double role she played in
La usurpadora.
This 1998 soap opera became an overwhelming success in our country
and every afternoon managed to gather millions of viewers in front of the television.
The story was as bizarre as it was addictive.
Gabriela played twin sisters, Paola and Paulina.
The first, married to Carlos Daniel, fled with her lover and left Paulina in her position.
Upon her return, Paola realized that her husband had fallen in love with Paulina and a war began to recover her husband and imprison her sister for impersonating her.
Her perverse sister, Paola Bracho, was the main attraction of the soap opera
because she left lapidary phrases that made viewers melt with her evil.
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Some of these phrases are collected by the Instagram account called
Maldita lisiada,
a cult of the soap opera genre that brings together all those who watched them in the late 90s and who are most likely now hooked on others of the style such as
The Promise.
Because soap operas are formats that never run out and always have their audience.
Cursed cripple comes from an expression that was popularized in the soap opera
María la del barrio,
a
remake
of
The rich also cry
.
The aforementioned Instagram account has found in Paola Bracho one of her favorite characters to the delight of the followers of
La usurpadora.
Some of Paola's phrases that she shares have thousands of views thanks to the sublime interpretation of Gabriela Spanic, who put on a forceful and rapturous voice:
"I need a house, a family and maids to do everything for me."
Another example: "Men are slaves to their passions and I am an expert at flattering them and awakening those passions."
Damned cripple also usually relates a current moment with one of Paola Bracho's phrases.
For example, to welcome 2024 she wrote "what I hope for this year" next to a clip of Paola in which she said:
"Keep going, keep having fun, keep being free."
Gabriela herself recently explained in an interview with Luis Olavarrieta, Venezuelan journalist and television producer, how she built the character of Paola.
"I tried to research it very well. I love the energy and the chakras. We have many resonators in the body and
I imagined Paola Bracho taking the voice to the sexual chakra, to the coccyx.
If I carry the voice there that is the voice of the plenitude and pleasure and that was Paola. It is pleasure and divinity, it is Cleopatra."
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Gabriela Spanic became a celebrity in Mexico, where she did most of her work.
Everyone thought that the soap opera star was from the Aztec country
but she herself remembers whenever she can that she is from Venezuela.
In fact, she participated in the contest to be the beauty queen of her country in 1992, just before becoming one of the most important actresses.
One of her first successes came with
Como tú none
and also with
Todo por tu amor,
where she played the character of Amaranta.
In 1998 she signed for Televisa to do
La usurpadora
after Thalía rejected the role.
What came next was an overwhelming success.
Even so, not everything in Gabriela's life was a bed of roses.
Her own story is like a soap opera.
Gaby, as she is often referred to,
also has a twin sister named Daniela
who had a stroke.
Their relationship deteriorated after Daniela's illness and
they were without contact for a decade
.
There are many versions that were launched about the reason for this estrangement and one of the most widespread was that Daniela's husband did not get along at all with Gabriela and was motivated by economic interests.
According to Gaby's version, her sister was turned against her.
"They told him a lot of lies about me."
POISONING
In addition to the coincidence of having a twin sister, in Gaby Spanic's life there are also other episodes that could be soap operas.
María Celeste, who was her sister's caregiver, tried to poison the entire family according to Gabriela's own version.
"My life behind the camera has been a horror movie. They have persecuted me, they have poisoned me three times. I have experienced very strong things."
Her mother, who died of throat cancer in 2020, died when the actress was in Budapest participating in
Dancing with the Stars
.
"My mother died very young.
Nobody can take it out of my mind that it was the aftermath of poisoning
because there was no history of that type in my family."
Gabriela is currently dating a handsome Canadian who, according to her, looks like Aquaman.
She hasn't done well in love either.
She married another Venezuelan actor, Miguel de León, whom she divorced.
She had her only child, Gabriel de Jesús, with businessman Neil Pérez, with whom she does not have a good relationship.
"I loved all my partners and I gave them the best of me.
The great love of my life is me because I love being with myself."