| Format | Romance, Exploitation, Telenovela |
|---|---|
| Created by | Gustavo Bolivar |
| Developed by | Telemundo Studios RTI Colombia |
| Directed by | Miguel Varoni Ramiro Meneses |
| Starring | Carmen Villalobos Catherine Siachoque María Fernanda Yépez |
| Theme music composer | Héctor Cardona Jr. |
| Opening theme | Sin Senos no hay Paraíso K- narias |
| Country of origin | Colombia United States |
| Language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of episodes | 167 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Hugo León Ferrer Mary-Kathryn Kennedy |
| Editor(s) | José Luis Varón |
| Location(s) | Bogotá, Giradot, Durango |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Telemundo |
| Picture format | HDTV, 1080i |
| Audio format | Stereophonic sound |
| Original airing | United States June 16, 2008 - June 22, 2009 Bulgaria September 1, 2008 - September 29, 2009 Serbia November 15, 2008 - July 15, 2009 Bosnia and Herzegovina October 5, 2008 - June 16, 2009 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Pecados Ajenos |
| Followed by | Victorinos |
| Related shows | Without Breasts There Is No Paradise |
Sin Senos no hay Paraíso (Without Breasts There Is No Paradise) is a RTI Colombia–Telemundo 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] its debut drew 749,000 adults aged 18 to 49, making it one of the network's most-watched premieres ever.
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 Byron (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.
