Blanca Blanco is making the most of her winter with a weekend getaway to the sunny Caribbean.
The Tale Of Tails actress, who was last seen in Beverly Hills before Christmas, posted a dozen hot photos of her making the most of a pair of bikinis while taking in Bonaire’s tropical temperatures.
The Breaking The Mold writer looked like she was auditioning for the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition as she posed in the sand.
Warming up: Blanca Blanco is making the most of her winter with a weekend getaway to the sunny Caribbean. The Tale Of Tails actress has posted a dozen hot photos making the most of a pair of bikinis while taking in the tropical temperatures
So the SI: The Breaking The Mold writer looked like she was auditioning for the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition as she posed in the sand
The star wore a colorful two-piece suit that highlighted her toned stomach and sculpted legs thanks to her daily workout at a Los Angeles gym.
The siren also wore a pink bikini that left little to the imagination.
The college grad – who is dating Deer Hunter’s John Savage – wore her thick chocolate brown hair down as she wore light makeup.
Born in Watsonville, California, Blanco was raised alongside two sisters and two brothers by Mexican immigrant parents who worked multiple jobs to support them.
At the age of nine, her family moved to Chelan, Washington, where she began taking acting and singing classes and organizing theater performances alongside her studies.
Flower girl: The star wore a colorful two-piece suit that highlighted her toned stomach and sculpted legs thanks to her daily workout at a Los Angeles gym
The look: The star wore a colorful two-piece suit that highlighted her toned stomach and sculpted legs thanks to her daily workout at a Los Angeles gym
After high school, Blanca graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and from Eastern Washington University with a Masters of Social Work. She then moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
Her first major role was in the 2008 feature film Dark Reel (2008) opposite Edward Furlong.
Notable film credits include Bullet (2014) alongside Danny Trejo, Anatomy of Deception (2014), Crimes of the Mind (2014), Defending Santa (2013) (ION) and Bermuda Tentacles (2014) (Syfy). Her films Teen Star Academy (2017), 6 Children & 1 Grandfather (2018) and Mission Possible (2018) premiered at the Cannes Film Festivals in 2016, 2017 and 2018 respectively.
Tree time: The siren also wore a hot pink bikini that left little to the imagination. The college grad – who is dating Deer Hunter’s John Savage – wore her thick chocolate brown hair down as she wore light makeup
Recently released films include Fake News (2017), Betrayed (2018) and Torch (2021). In 2018 she began filming The Dog of Christmas (2021).
The beauty’s early years were tough as she was physically abused by her father and also led a life of poverty in Washington state where she lived in a garage for years.
She detailed those tough days in her book, Breaking The Mold.
“I wrote BREAKING THE MOLD during the COVID lockdown because I felt my story could help others as poverty and abuse increased. I’ll take you on my journey from poverty to success and how I made it possible,” the Mission: Possible actress told .
A day at sea on a boat: She wore a different suit when she went snorkeling for a day
Good in Fendi: The leggy prodigy wore black Fendi sunglasses with hoop earrings
“I share and provide tools and techniques that have worked for me,” she said of her book, which is published by Briton Publishing.
The Cannes Film Festival favorite added: “My book is an autobiography and I share something about childhood poverty, abuse and how I overcame it. I think it will motivate readers when they get into a bad situation.’
She was isolated throughout her painful adolescence and never had the support she really needed, especially at school.
“I never told my classmates about our poverty and life in a garage because I wanted to be treated the same as them – a normal kid! Nobody knew, not even the teachers.”
The waist looks unreal! She has a tiny waist with abs which puts her in photoshoot shape
She also shared an excerpt of the abuse she suffered with . “It happened when we lived in Mexico as children, but the abuse continued through the years.”
Her father wasn’t loving, she said, and instead he was an “abusive father and husband.”
“He used to hit us and used a ‘chicote,’ a kind of whip or crop used to control horses, to hit us,” she said.
The book will be published in early 2022
“He even put his gun to our mother’s head and threatened to shoot her right in front of our eyes. We were all afraid of him, especially our mother. We were all crying and trying to protect our mother who he had pushed to bed and we surrounded her and begged him not to shoot.
“His anger and uncontrolled rage was just because she asked him to give her money to buy us food when suddenly he drove off.
“It continued when we were older. He went to attack me when our mother was dying, but this time I stood up to him and dared him to touch me. Now that I was older, I wasn’t afraid of him anymore. He backed away, shocked that I challenged him!’
Blanco was born in Watsonville, California.
Her family moved to southwest Mexico when she was three years old.
Her father was a police officer there and was shot twice, forcing the family to return to the US to hopefully live the American dream. Blanca was nine years old.
Her family of seven lived in poverty their entire childhood, living in a small garage with no hot water, no shower, and no heat while facing the cold Washington state winters.
They then moved into a tiny trailer at a small trailer park, often with unsafe water that caused illness.
Back at the hotel: She made the most of a windowsill as she posed with a arched back
She attended Chelan High School, where she was determined not to remain in poverty.
After leaving school, she became the school’s role model for younger graduates and made a motivational video to help them.
A graduate despite her abusive father: “He used to hit us and used a ‘chicote,’ which is a type of whip,” she said
With the help of her guardian angel, a teacher who cared for her, she received “full scholarships that enabled her to go to college and then to university.”
She was the first Latina woman in the area to go to college and worked hard to graduate and continue her full-ride scholarships, where she earned an Associate of Science degree from Spokane Falls Community College.
She then attended Washington State University with a 4.0 GPA and earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology followed by a master’s degree in social work from Eastern Washington State University.
Her first job after earning her Masters in Social Work was in hospice care. Deciding to follow her dreams, she moved to Los Angeles, where she became an actress and studied with Gordon Hunt (Helen Hunt’s father).
She immediately got many roles in film and television. The star won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Melanie in the film Betrayed.
Foreword by Edward I. Byrnes, Ph.D. Professor of Social Work – Eastern Washington University.