History Series / SinSenosNoHayParaiso

A sequel, Series/SinSenosSiHayParaiso ("Without Breasts There Is Paradise") began airing on July 2016.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In this case is more that the bad boys are powerful drug lords and the girls do everything in their power to attract them in order to get luxuries and financial support. It helps that some of them are easy on the eyes but others...

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Seeing as the story has a lot to do with the business of drug dealing, this tends to happen... ''a lot''

* GreenEyedMonster: A re-occurring theme.

* LoveHurts: Like any good telenovela, it has a hefty amount of this

A sequel, ''Sin senos sí hay paraíso'' ("Without Breasts There Is Paradise") began airing on July 2016.

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: This trope is subverted, played with, averted or played straight, which gives the story depth. Most of the girls that became prostitutes do so either because they want to help support their families, buy pretty things for themselves or because they have no other choice. Sometimes they will support each other wholeheartedly and others they will backstab each other trying to prosper.

* CrapsackWorld: The story doesn't shy away from showing the several injustices suffered by the lower classes and the desperation that leads them to enter the dangerous world of crime and prostitution in order to survive. Sadly, this is TruthInTelevision seeing as the [[WordOfGod author himself has stated]] he draws inspiration from several experiences he lived and witnessed when younger.

Catalina Santana (Creator/CarmenVillalobos), 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.

In the end, she loses everything she once held dear and loved, prompting her to take one last desperate choice.

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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. Yésica 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), Yésica's equivalent in Mexico, who together with Martínez, 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 Byron, 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."

Gustavo Bolívar'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. The screenwriter says ''Paraíso'' highlights an unflattering part of his country: teenagers in the Colombian narco-culture getting breast implants. According to Bolívar, 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.

Bolívar says the story is based on real-life conditions facing child prostitutes in the province (''departamento'') of Putumayo, 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.

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.

Catalina Santana (CarmenVillalobos), 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.