The touching story of Bertha from “Ugly Betty”: She became pregnant with her daughter Oriana in the middle of filming the series after going through difficult personal experiences that almost destroyed her dream of motherhood

The return of “Ugly Betty” is underway, and with it, little by little, the life stories of the actors of the cult soap opera that aired in the late 90s are becoming known. Luces Velasquezwho played Bertha Muñoz de González more than two decades ago.

Ana María Orozco, Jorge Enrique Abello, Natalia Ramírez and Lorna Cepeda are some of the actors who are returning to the action more than 20 years later, and with them is Luces, a 62-year-old actress who has long sought to become a mother and has achieved her dream when he was in the middle of filming “Ugly Betty”.

But his life story is not like anyone else’s. Luces Velásquez married plastic surgeon Jaime Lozada and planned to start a family with him. He finally achieved this with the arrival of his daughter Oriana, although they went through a difficult path full of pain and tragedy.

Bertha’s touching story from “Ugly Betty”

In their first attempt to become parents, the couple lost their baby when she was barely a month old. The death occurred after the little boy was diagnosed with a heart problem, reports Antena 3, referring to Vásquez’s statements to RCN.

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Then the spouses faced several more losses, pregnancies that could not reach the term and which plunged the actress into pain and sadness, to the point that she did not want to be a mother.

“It was a very difficult year, with endless sadness and very little desire to live,” commented the actress, who will turn 63 on October 30.

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Lost hopes Luces Velásquez got pregnant again when she was in the middle of shooting “Betty, la fea”. Then his life changed completely because he realized his dream at the best moment of his career, at the peak of the soap opera that became internationally famous.

Although she already had a career in the art field at the time “Ugly Betty” was filmed, her career continued to grow. Among her latest works is her participation in the remake of “Café con aroma de mujer” for Netflix, starring William Levy and Laura Londoño.

In May 2023, he joined the fifth season of MasterChef Celebrity as a contestant.

Her daughter Oriana is currently 22 years old, but the girl did not follow her mother’s footsteps in acting, preferring to study medicine like her father.

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In August, the family celebrated a white corner ceremony, an act that “represents the transition from basic science to clinical practice for students in the Medical Program,” as mentioned on the El Bosque University website.

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