Sin senos no hay paraíso

Sin senos no hay paraíso
Genre Telenovela
Created by Gustavo Bolívar
Based on Sin tetas no hay paraíso
by Gustavo Bolívar
Directed by
Creative director(s) Piedad Arango
Starring
Music by Miguel de Narváez
Opening theme "Sin senos no hay paraíso" performed by Natalia Gutiérrez and Hernán Saraza
Original language(s) Spanish
No. of episodes 238
Production
Executive producer(s)
Cinematography
  • Juan Pablo Puentes
  • Édgar Neisa
Editor(s) José Luis Varón
Camera setup Multi-camera
Production company(s)
Distributor
Release
Original network Telemundo
Picture format 480i SDTV
Audio format Stereophonic sound
First shown in United States
Original release June 16, 2008 (2008-06-16) – June 22, 2009 (2009-06-22)
Chronology
Followed by Sin senos sí hay paraíso
Related shows
External links
Website

Sin senos no hay paraíso (Without Breasts There Is No Paradise) is a RTI Colombia–Telemundo telenovela remake and loose adaptation of the original Colombian 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.[1]

Plot

Catalina Santana (Carmen Villalobos), 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 her brother Bayron (Juan Diego Sánchez) to prosper. In spite of their mother's efforts, Bayron and Catalina's situation is filled with poverty and need.

Catalina is beautiful, but is not as voluptuous as her friends who render sexual services as "pre-paid girls" to powerful men in the drug trafficking world. Yésica "La Diabla" (María Fernanda Yépez), Catalina's best friend, entered this world with her own business: recruiting, selecting, and leading groups of women for whom the drug traffickers pay in advance to receive sexual services, which she introduces to Catalina 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), Yésica's Mexican equivalent, 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 heroin 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 after being raped by three men, facing struggles in order to get her breasts 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 were having a romantic relationship behind her back which resulted in her mother becoming pregnant, and finally getting kicked out of her own house by her drug-dealer husband Marcial, after Yésica betrayed her and told Marcial that Catalina had lied to him. After all 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 Yessica for betraying her by inviting her to a cafe and calling the hired killers, as she gives them the details to distinguish Yésica among the other people. The killers do their job and kill Yésica, by shooting her three times in the back, later to be shown that the girl killed is in fact, Catalina, who had a change of mind; instead of killing Yésica, she decided to plot her own assassination by disguising herself as Yésica. Before being shot, 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 Bolivar'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. [2] 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.[3]

Bolívar says the story is based on real-life conditions facing child prostitutes in the province (departamento) of Pereira, 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.[2]

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 members

Actor Character Seasons
1 2 3 4
Carmen Villalobos Catalina Santana Main Guest Main
Catherine Siachoque Hilda Santana Main
María Fernanda Yépez Yésica Franco Main Does not appear
Aylín Mújica Lorena Magallanes Main Does not appear
Juan Diego Sánchez Bayron Santana Main Does not appear Guest Does not appear
Fabián Ríos Albeiro Manrique Main
Gregorio Pernia Aurelio Jaramillo Main Recurring Main
Guillermo Quintanilla Benjamín Martínez García Main Does not appear
Alejandra Pinzón Paola Main Guest Recurring
Linda Baldrich Natalia Main Does not appear
Carolina Sepúlveda Ximena Fonseca Main Recurring
Carolina Betancourt Vanessa Main Does not appear
Laura Londoño Lina Arango Main Does not appear
Sofía Stamatiades Julieta Main Does not appear
Roberto Mateos José Miguel Cárdenas Main Does not appear
Gabriel Porras Fernando Rey Main Does not appear
Ramiro Meneses Ramiro Duque Main Does not appear
Danilo Santos Mauricio Cardona Main Does not appear Guest Does not appear
Alí Humar Pablo Morón Main Does not appear
Juan Pablo Shuk Mauricio Contento Main Does not appear
César Mora Marcial Barrera Main Does not appear
Francisco Bolívar José Luis Vargas Recurring Main

Media

In the summer of 2015, the complete telenovela was made available to stream on Netflix in the United States, along with a handful of other Telemundo programming.

English release

NBC Universal commissioned Universal Media Studios to produce an English-language version of the serial, using a different cast and script.[4]

International release

CountryTV ChannelsLocal Title! PremierEndTimeSlot
 BulgariaNova TV/ Diema FemilyСиликон за раяSeptember 1, 2008September 30, 200916:30
 SerbiaTV KošavaSponzorušeNovember 10, 2008July 15, 200920:00 / 23:00
 CanadaTelelatino
 HungaryCool TV
 MacedoniaSitel TVСпонзоруши ('Gold diggers')
 RomaniaAcasa TVFara sani nu exista ParadisJune 22, 2009December 17, 2009

Sequel

On July 19, 2016, Telemundo began airing a sequel telenovela. The name of the sequel is Sin senos sí hay paraíso.

On July 25, 2017, Telemundo will air the third sequel to the telenovela where Carmen Villalobos reappears.

References

  1. ↑ "Telemundo Anuncia Nuevo Plan De Programación Original Para 2008-2009" (Press release) (in Spanish). NBC Universal. 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
  2. 1 2 Martínez, Helda (2006-09-25). "Colombia: Measuring the Cost of Paradise by Cup Size". IPS. Archived from the original on 2008-12-15. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
  3. ↑ Martorel, Carlos (2007-07-16). "NBC's Boob Job". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
  4. ↑ Rice, Lynette (2008-06-18). "Will NBC be 'Sin Tetas'?". Retrieved 2009-02-02.
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