Mi Gorda Bella | 178x60’

YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2002

Language: Spanish, English

SYNOPSIS:

Valentina Villanueva Lanz (Natalia Streignard) is a young girl with the natural ability to win the affection of whoever gets to know her. However, she is the victim of constant attacks and ridicule for his fatness. Illness or condition, the truth is that his corpulence brings him many problems and even funny entanglements. Valentina's eating disorder begins with the death of her father when she was a child and worsens with the death of her mother in a car accident, the day of her high school promotion ceremony. Valentina ends up under the guardianship of her uncle Juan Ángel Villanueva, and his wife, the evil Olimpia Mercouri and it is at the Villanueva house where she meets Orestes Mercouri (Juan Pablo Raba). The ingenuity and simplicity that the fat beauty radiates, attracts Orestes who falls in love with her irremediably. However, the constant bullying and disappointments cause Valentina to escape to Spain where she undergoes a drastic makeover, becoming a stunning young woman. Sometime later, Valentina returns to her country, but now as a spectacular young woman and engages in a tough battle against Olimpia with the intention of clearing her parents' name and recovering her inheritance, even if it means throwing away any chance of being with the love of her life: Orestes Mercouri.