Actor Eduardo Verástegui looks back on life as a Latino pop sensation and womanizing underwear model, determined to start fresh.
By
Nick Haramis
May 06, 2008
“After four years of turning down every offer I was given, I went bankrupt. I didn’t even have enough money to pay my rent,” says Eduardo Verástegui, the star of last year’s Bella, a People’s Choice Award winner at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film, which centers on a day in the life of a professional soccer player past his prime and a pregnant waitress considering abortion, was a smash hit on the festival circuit. For Verástegui, a former underwear model and boy-band sensation, it was so much more.
