The successful American film, “The Mummy” (1999), It has outstanding actors and actresses in the cast who are still present in the viewers’ retinas.
The credits highlight Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Arnold Vosloo and Patricia Velasquez. The latter, which made many of the spectators sigh, embodied Anck-Su-Namun, the temptation of the villain Imhotep.
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In the film, his character takes his own life after helping Imhotep to assassinate Seti Ithe Pharaoh of Egypt and who was her husband at that time.
After years of her soul being condemned to the underworld, she returns to the year 1925, after the librarian, Evelyn Carnahan, brought her to life after pointing out an ancient curse written in the “Book of the Dead.”
Thanks to “The Mummy”, Patricia Velasquez She rose as one of the first Latin American actresses to succeed in Hollywood, and also participated in the sequel to the aforementioned film.
A life full of sacrifices
Patricia Velásquez is the fifth of 6 siblings, and was born in 1971 in the coastal city of Maracaibo, Venezuela. Since her adolescence she was interested in the performing arts, and at the age of 18 she participated in the Miss Venezuela, A contest that, although she did not win, gave her public notoriety as a model.
But the road to the previous event was not easy. Velásquez said in his memoirs that a hairdresser was the one who discovered her beauty, but before sponsoring her for the contest, he demanded that she have surgery on her eyes and ears and increase her bust. Although at first he did not want to access it, since he did not have the money for so many surgeries, he thought that this opportunity would take her and her family out of poverty.
For this reason, as he said in his memoirs, “No heels. No reservation. Diary of a supermodel in search of her truth”she chose to prostitute herself to access the operations, getting a patron, whom she identifies as David, who agreed to pay her everything in exchange for sex.
Of course, the only thing she had surgery on was her breasts, since in the same book she indicates that she has always felt proud of her roots, despite the discrimination she had to face at times, and for which she had to pass herself off as Mexican to not to be prejudiced as an indigenous person.
As an adult, after participating in “The Mummy” (1999) and “The Mummy Returns” (2001), Velásquez participated in a few films and series. Her resume highlights “Mindhunters” (2004), “Arrested Development” (2004), “CSI Miami” (2005), “Eternal Ashes” (2011), “The Curse of La Llorona” (2019), among others. .
And Patricia has also dedicated her life to activism and does not forget her roots. In Zulia, she has a foundation that has provided help to the Wayú community, monetary and educational.
On her Instagram account she has a little more than 240 thousand followers, with whom she shares photos of herself, her activities and also her family. She has a daughter named Maya, with an ex-girlfriend of whom he has not wanted to reveal her identity, although in the book she explains that she shares custody of her.
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