Paz Vega turns 50, puts on glasses and faces marital and financial crisis

Paz Vega sent us a subliminal message when she started wearing glasses on the red carpets. Prescription glasses, that is. The actress has turned 50 and has decided to wear glasses - progressive, surely - on all occasions without complexes. When a woman decides to free herself from contact lenses and also from the prejudice that you are uglier with glasses, she has finally said enough! to that slavery within them and probably to many others. What we didn't see coming is that the script shift in his career from acting to directing included ending his high-profile marriage.

Let's start at the beginning. Maripaz Campos Trigo was born in Seville. Since she was little she was interested in Theater, in fact she studied at the Triana municipal school before heading to Madrid to enroll in Journalism. It didn't take long for her to be given roles in series like Compañeros until she achieved popularity with her role as Laura in Siete Vidas, a famous sitcom with a live audience. Back then there were no networks and fame was on TV, so the entire union noticed that pizpireta girl with a thick accent. It was the early 2000s and Penélope Cruz, with whom Paz shared a certain profile, was not enough for everything, apart from the fact that she had already had her eye on Hollywood and had been doing little here.

His first big opportunity in cinema came at the hands of Julio Medem. Lucía and sex elevated her as a national sex symbol with a story not suitable for all audiences that gave her the definitive accolade. Around then he met Orson Salazar, a Venezuelan with no job or benefit who immediately offered to take his career. It hit them hard in love and ambition. Also in procreation. They had three children in a row and made the jump to being featured in gossip magazines. Nothing could resist them together, not even Pedro Almodóvar himself: they dared to cross the pond while investing what they earned in Spain in nightclubs like the Gold room in Madrid. The millennium advanced and there was everything, from filming Spanglish as a toll for Hispanic clichés to a film with Morgan Freeman.

Paz's trajectory in the US soon faded. Although she surrounded herself with important people, she never reached Pe's level, although she also did not choose to keep trying while she dedicated herself to her family like Elsa Pataky. Always halfway between Madrid and Los Angeles, many point to her manager-husband as responsible for her decline and ruin: she still has to face serious problems with the Treasury. That seems to be the cause of the breakup of the marriage, which has served to question his work as the great organizer of all parties after the Spanish film festivals.