Por ella soy Eva (translated "For her, I am Eva) is a Mexican soap opera produced by Rosy Ocampo and first premiered in February, 20 of 2012.
Juan Carlos Caballero (Jaime Camil) is a successful executive at a tourist enterprise "Grupo Imperio" about to sign a valuable deal until his womanizing ways cost him the deal and his position at the enterprise is threatened. To save himself, Juan Carlos decides to steal the ecotourism project of Helena Moreno (Lucero Hogaza León), a single-mother recently fired from Grupo Imperio alongside several other women by Juan Carlos himself. Juan Carlos conceals his identity to seduce Helena and befriends her son, but quickly finds himself deeply in love with her and wishes to marry her. Everything falls apart, however, when Helena discovers the charade and abandons him. To make matters worse, fellow executive and rival, Plutarco Ramos (Marcelo Alejandro Córdoba), has stolen three million dollars from the enterprise with the intention of framing Juan Carlos and the latter is forced to flee from the authorities leading to a car crash where he seemingly dies.
As you'd guess, Juan Carlos survives but is presumed death and forced to hide. Fate introduces him to Mimi, a Fashion Stylist, who finds the perfect solution to conceal a wanted man in plain sight… By dressing him as a woman! And so, Eva Maria is born to join Grupo Imperio with the purpose of discovering who framed Juan Carlos Caballero and clean his name. From this new perspective, Juan Carlos will experience the prejudice that is targeted against women, make friends with several of them who will find a pillar of support in Eva Maria, and become the closest friend of the woman he loves.
This show features examples of:
- Abhorrent Admirer: Antonia is that for her own husband Plutarco. He married her only because of her money, and despises her for being fat and for her annoying personality. And he hates having sex with her.
- Ambition Is Evil: Plutarco married Antonia only because she is his boss's sister.
- Awful Wedded Life:
- Antonia and Plutarco. Antonia doesn't understand why Plutarco seems to have lost all sexual interest in her. She does not know that Plutarco hates her and married her just because of her money.
- Helena's parents, due to the sexist behavior of Helena's father.
- Betty and Veronica:
- Helena is Archie, Juan is Betty and Plutarco is Veronica.
- Plutarco is a (bad) Archie, Antonia is Betty and Rebeca is Veronica.
- Big Bad: Plutarco, who does everything to ruin Juan's life.
- Big Eater: Antonia eats all the time. And Plutarco tries to take advantage of this to encourage her gluttony, causing her death.
- Butt-Monkey:
- Plutarco. He marries Antonia, an obese and spoiled woman for whom he feels only disgust and contempt, hoping that her brother will give him a promotion at the company where they work. He wins, but it's not nearly as good as he expected, as his brother-in-law prefers his best friend Juan. He is then forced to have constant sex with the wife he despises, and his beautiful lover Rebeca constantly pressures him to get rid of his wife to marry her. He is also ridiculed at the company for having a fat wife while everyone else has thin, beautiful wives, and also because everyone knows he is only interested in her money.
- Antonia, a woman who suffers from health problems because of her obesity, and who suffers because her husband has lost all sexual interest in her. And before she dies, she finds out he had a mistress and married her just because of her money.
- Juan, who has his reputation ruined overnight, accused of a crime he did not commit, abandoned by friends and girlfriend. He is forced to forge his own death and dress as a woman to get his revenge.
- Chubby Chaser: Antonia believes her husband Plutarco is this. He is not. At all.
- Covered in Kisses: Antonia loves to do this to her husband. Plutarco hates it.
- False Friend: Rebeca pretends to be Antonia's friend, but makes fun of her obesity when not in her presence.
- Gold Digger:
- A male example. Plutarch marries Antonia just because she is sister of his boss and he believes that it will increase her chances of being promoted to the company. The promotion is not as good as he expects, and Plutarco is forced to remain married to a woman he finds fat, ugly and annoying.
- Rebeca, Plutarch's mistress, who has had an affair with him for years and makes everything to kill Antonia and thus marry him. She has no idea that Plutarch does not plan to marry her at all.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Antonia becomes this when she suspects that Helena is her husband's mistress. She treats Helena with contempt and does her best to sabotage her in the company. She doesn't even suspect that the true mistress of Plutarco is her friend Rebeca.
- Ms. Fanservice: Considering we're talking about a Mexican telenovela, almost all the female characters in the plot are this, except for the protagonists' elder mothers and Antonia, who is obese. Rebeca in particular is the character with the most scenes wearing lingerie or naked.
- Weight Woe: The overweight Antonia suffers bullying from everyone. Even her husband.
