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Gabriela Spanic visited the Philippines in 2000 during the success of her telenovelas La Usurpadora (shown originally on RPN, and also shown as Paulina on GMA) and Por Tu Amor (Maria del Cielo), and on Monday, April 14, 2008, the popular 34-year-old Venezuelan actress was in Miami, Florida for an interview on Cristina, to talk about her new baby, about her cancer diagnosis, her twin sister's hospitalization for a cerebral hemmorhage, her mother's stomach dystrophy, and her father's heart attack that all took place just a few months ago.

Since her hit success in the Philippines, she has remained a steady favorite on Telemundo's telenovelas, appearing on such hits as Prisionera, and on Tierra de Pasiones, currently re-airing daytimes on Telemundo at 11am, where she won the FAMAS award for Best Actress for her portrayal as the mother of a gay son who after many heartbreaks finds love again with her co-star Saul Lisazo's character.

She also won the Orquieda Award for her body of work as a popular actress for the past 16 years, and for her worldwide success. And I've translated the interview for you in English:

Gabriela Spanic on Cristina, Univision Network, United States
April 14, 2008, Gracias a 'GabrielaSpanicVideos'
Transcript and Translation to English by R. Arce

-Tonight we have two popular and beautiful actresses very much loved by all of us - Gaby Spanic and Alicia Machado, two famous pregnant actresses on Cristina. After 16 years of work, she won our hearts with her performances in such popular telenovelas La Usurpadora, La Intrusa, among many others, let's give a warm welcome to Gabriela Spanic. I love how happy you look. So what do you guys think?

Good evening, how is everybody?

-If Barbie was ever pregnant, it'd be her.

Thank you so much. You're so sweet.

-How do you feel?

Happy, content, in peace, relaxed, thankful to God for life. And God gives strength to us.

-I just read in the magazines about you, the ring, your new husband. Tell me how this all came about.

I believe love knocked at the doors of my house. I was at the house having a party with friends singing karaoke. I'm the type of person that likes to cook for friends, and have small parties at the house. A friend of mine said she'd bring a friend who just arrived from Venezuela and said "I want you to meet him", and I said "Sure, bring him." I fell in love with him at first sight. Then he started sending me cards and flowers and mariachis.

-He's Mexican?

No, he's Venezuelan.

-He's Venezuelan and serenaded you with mariachis?

Yes (laughs.)

-Very intelligent.

He's very romantic. He has good morals, comes from a united family. And he scared me at first because 2 weeks after we started dating, he said, "You're gonna be the mother of child. And I want you to be my wife." And I was scared at first I wanted to run out the door. But now, we've been together for 8 months, almost 9 months...

-What's his name?

Emil Perez. He's Venezuelan.

- He's not in showbiz.

No, thank God. (laughs)

- Why?

The most important thing for me, I don't want to say I've had previous bad experiences, but after those experiences, I've asked God that the next person I fall in love with would not be an actor or in showbiz. And that he'd have a job completely different from what I do. And he's an architect, of construction in banks.
-Here you say he's romantic. Is he jealous?

Yes, but in a normal way.

-You did 4 pregnancy tests?

Yes, I never expected it. But I always said that I believe it was God's decision. I felt prepared to be a mother because it was always a dream for me, and it came at the least expected time, but for me at the right time, because I've had a lot of hard times lately, and it's like an angel of hope in my life. It's a blessing from God, and I'm so happy.

-I'd like you to explain to the public how hard 2007 was for you. I've had hard times this past year, but not as hard as yours.

Yes it was hard. Sometimes, life can change in a second. At first, I was thought to have cancer. Two months later, thank God the diagnosis was negative. My mother was in the hospital after a stomach paralysis. My sister was in the hospital for a cerebral hemmorhage. My father had a heart attack from all of the stress. It came all at once, they were very difficult times. But God gave me a lot of strength. I wanted to be in Venezuela with my mother, but I was in Mexico with my sister. Because we always saw my mother, but we didn't want my mother to find out about Dani's hospitalization (my sister), because she was very sick. My mom called me and said, "How come Dani hasn't called me in a while?" And she thought I was still in Miami, and I said everything is alright. And my mom said, "No I know something's wrong". Because it appeared all over the news, newspapers, and magazines, we said "take out the TV, take out all of the newspapers from her room" but she found out eventually. She couldn't even get up, she had a liquid diet. When she got better, she traveled to Mexico, and my sister was screaming to her in pain in the middle of the night and I told my mom, "Mama, give me strength."

-When your sister was hospitalized, she was already pregnant, and gave birth in the hospital.

My niece's name is Catalina, she's beautiful. All this happened during Christmas, we were all together. And I said, "Here we are, we have our health, let's celebrate." I believe everything if you leave it in the hands of God, it will be alright.

Part 2
-You've changed a lot. You're more mature now, I love seeing you like that. This is your first baby, you've taken care of your sister's babies, changing diapers and everything. You were practicing to be a mother.

Catalina is my sixth niece. My brother has 4 sons, my younger sister Patricia has a daughter. And I took care of their babies, and after Catalina was born while Dani was sick, I took care of her and fell in love with her.

-You have a lot of twins in the family. Are you afraid if you'll have twins?

No, I'm not scared. I hope two come, but we're not sure yet. I had a dream it would be a boy, but we don't know yet.

-You're living in Miami now, how did he find out?

He was in Venezuela waiting for me, because he invited me to go to the beach there. And I took 4 tests while I was in Miami, and I found out, and I wrote him a poem called Blue Lion, because a friend of mine gave me a blue stuffed lion to give to him. And I arrived in Venezuela, and I was waiting for the right moment to tell him. Then we went to the sea in Venezuela, and I told him there in front of the ocean. He hugged me, almost choked me. And we were crying out of emotion, and we were there on the boat, super happy and content.

-What's the plan? You're getting married?

Yes. My parents were married for 36 years. I believe in marriage. I continue to believe in love, and for me it means family, to form a grand family. I came from a very united family, so I hope to make that type of environment for my child. We're hoping that the same day we get married, we'll also have the baptism on the same day.

-I just want to thank you for being here, and for during the years that I could not have you on my program, I've missed you a lot.

I missed you too a lot.

-When you make friends, you miss them. And now, let's move forward. And help Dani move forward too.

Yes, I've always been like that, move forward, move forward.

-Never a look backward.

Never.

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Gaby Spanic is 5 months pregnant with her first child, and as Robin Padilla's new TV show Joaquin Bordado debuts on Monday on GMA7, so does Gaby Spanic's hit TV show on the same day, and the sexy 34-year old Venezuelan actress has temporarily left Telemundo and the tapings of Doña Barbara to give birth and be a mother. This is relevant, because Filipinos love Thalia, but they also loved Gabriela Spanic, who was loved so much by the Filipinos that she visited Manila in 2000 to perform a mini-concert in which she was flirted with by Robin Padilla, and her novelas were among the highest rating shows in the Philippines: La Usurpadora (shown as Paulina on GMA7) with Mario Cimarro and Fernando Colunga, was shown a total of 3 times on Filipino television, can you believe that, 3 times on 3 different Filipino TV networks, and also shown in over 100 countries worldwide, and Maria del Cielo with Saul Lizaso which was extremely popular among Filipino viewers, with whom she re-teamed up with again in 2005 to do the groundbreaking telenovela Tierra de Pasiones (Land of Passions), which starts airing again on Telemundo in the USA, Latin America, Spain, Europe, and parts of Asia (via satellite TV service) this Monday, Feb 11 at 12 pm

because La Mujer en el Espejo (with Pasion de Amor's Paola Rey) ends today. If you're at work, I recommend putting it to season auto-record on your DVR or TV, because I watched it and it was great, and I'm gearing up to watch it again and now I can record it to DVD on the DVD recorder, and on Digital TV now that I got my new HDTV antenna for 40 bucks, wooo! I'm just putting this here, because some Pinoys were asking how they could watch this show on the Telenovela Filipinas forum, so stay tuned this Monday, and you got it! If you don't understand Spanish and you want to watch this show, don't even worry, just get your remote control, go to the settings menu, and turn on the Closed Captioning on your television to CC3 for the English subtitles. Filipino TV ratings below, and Marimar is still #1. Download this free Gabriela Spanic wallpaper, and enjoy this Tagalog-language flashback video gallery of Gabriela Spanic in her hit telenovela Maria del Cielo, and her singing the fantastic theme song and opening of Tierra de Pasiones and also her singing the theme song to Paulina (La Usurpadora). I'm just putting her here on our blog because I like Gabriela Spanic, and it's Filipino-related, so there you go, hehe.