I'll admit this wasn't exactly one of my favorites but I was soon hooked. Nora's a tough character when she shapes up and though I see a lot of people feel for Casilda - let me be obnoxiously honest, her ugliness wouldn't have been so bad if she didn't hate on Nora so much for the dumbest of reasons. In fact besides the main heroine and hero it's Paulina I felt sorry for, she wasn't even a villain - just a simple girl who made one dumb mistake in her life. And well, I didn't find anything funny about that moron Isaura who did a lot of bad stuff and that darn whistling was SO annoying! And I do wish her death was better and that it didn't have to end with a sunset - romantic as it was.

TV and Films are not only helping me, but I am finding that I am enjoying a lot of the films more, in some ways, than typical American films of my taste. Or course, I have always enjoyed subtitled foreign films, whether they sparked my interest for cultural reasons, or whatever. Anyway, I am even getting into some of the soaps as a tool to help me learn the language. Anyone have ideas for which ones I should check out? In the case of this one, I need to ask if anyone knows the name of the blonde beauty that is featured. I don't recall any other blonde being featured on the show (as far as I've seen it) so I figured that this was a sufficient description. Or do I sound like a moron?

Yadhira Carillo convinced us that she could be the leading lady in another critically acclaimed soap opera, La Otra(The Other Woman) where she played two identical women with mirroring principles and values. In Amarte es mi Pecado, she plays Nora Madrigal de Orta who vowed to her father that she will marry someone rich so that she can be happy for the rest of her life. Nora is keen on doing this until she meets Arturo whom she falls totally in love with. They share a beautiful relationship in spite of the efforts made by her ambitious and greedy Aunt Alejandra and her stepmother Isaura to keep her from reaching eternal happiness. In a trip to Miami, Arturo cheats on Nora with a young woman named Paulina who falls madly in love with Nora's fiancé. When Arturo returns to Michoacan, he tells Nora what happened hoping that his honesty will make Nora think twice before putting off their wedding....but that doesn't happen. Nora is enraged and heartbroken when hearing about Arturo's affair and she decides to keep her pregnancy a secret. Isaura kills off Alejandra with the aide of her ugly and envious daughter Casilda(Who is the best character in the show). In an attempt to make Nora suffer even more and in order to make some money Isaura trades Casilda's and Nora's babies when they give birth. Nora believes that Casilda's dead baby is her own and tragedy once more strikes. After this, Nora can take no more and she decided to follow her dreams and become a successful and powerful model. With her power, overpowering beauty, and her money she vows to avenge the death of her daughter and vows to avenge every single tragedy and heartbreak that people put her trough. Nora becomes the one person who no one wants to mess with because tragedy and heartbreak have turned her into a self-sufficient woman who will stop at nothing to make the people who hurt her, pay for their evil deeds.With an excellent adaptation by Liliana Abud, produced by the one and only Ernesto Alonso, directed by Benjamin Cann, and starring Yadhira Carillo, Sergio Sendel, Alessandra Rosaldo, Margarita Isabel, Sylvia PAsquel, Alexis Ayala, and Tiare Scanda as Casilda. A very good telenovela, it should be out on DVD soon in the United States.

The first time I saw Amarte es mi Pecado, I thought, "How dramatic!" In the first episode, there were a lot of stuff that made Nora (Yadhira Carrillo)cry. Like the death of her father, the time Heriberto Reyes tried to abuse her, and when she was in jail for shooting Herriberto for self-defense. What I really like about this soap opera, is that it is well acted by various actors, and they seem to make it the best soap opera anyone has ever watched. At this time, Amarte es mi Pecado is the only soap opera I'm watching, the rest are boring, and don't make any sense. What I don't like about the soap opera, is that it is based on people living in Michoacan, Mexico, why couldn't they think of another place that is BEAUTIFUL, and make people want to go there? Besides that, its a great Soap opera. Don't miss it!