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Aired (March 7, 2026): Kapuso Global Fashion Icon Heart Evangelista looks back on the start of her career, sharing the struggles she faced and the big breaks that helped define her path in the industry.

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00:00Are you ready? Are you ready? I'm ready!
00:02Sometimes I ask myself, who am I really?
00:09Let's move on now.
00:10And this year, I'm really getting the sense and feel of who I truly am.
00:18Wait girl, we're here, we're going to see the message.
00:21It's my first time in my life.
00:24I feel like I'm living life in chapters.
00:26Some chapters are fun, light, and some chapters written and painted in tears.
00:34I'm going to make it out of it.
00:35If you really want it to get to that point, I understand.
00:38What can I also say?
00:39Being me means surviving fashion week, high heels, of course, jet lag.
00:52I'm not perfect.
00:54I'm becoming.
00:56I'm a work in progress.
00:58I'm Heart, and this is Heart World.
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01:30His business was catering to shooting because my grandfather had a production house with Everlasting Pictures.
01:37So, I knew I wanted that.
01:39So, when I was young, I would wear my lipstick.
01:42For example, I used to wear my clothes.
01:46I was really young.
01:47And when I started, everybody was Miss Issa.
01:50So, I remember somebody telling me,
01:52You can't be a serious actress.
01:55You're so strong!
01:58So, I said, oh my god.
01:59So, I'm really hopeless.
02:00Because when I cry, it's not my eyes.
02:03So, how am I gonna show my emotions?
02:07So, very first, I wanted to be an ice skater.
02:10Then, I wanted to become a vet.
02:11Then, I really wanted to become a painter.
02:12They're like, what do you really want to be?
02:14She wanted to do all.
02:15Even languages.
02:17So, basically, that time,
02:18I really picked up all the auditions.
02:20I didn't care.
02:21Nung bata siya, alam mo,
02:24talaga mahilig na mag-artista.
02:27Kasi nasa Amerika kami,
02:29may restaurant ako singing cooks and waiter.
02:33Sumasali na yan.
02:34Pwedeng-pwede itong anak niya.
02:35Misal, malapit siya ako niya na
02:38na umiiyak siya.
02:39O, ba't ka? Ano problema?
02:41Ba't ka umiiyak?
02:42Tapos, sinasabi niya,
02:44hindi pa-practice lang ako.
02:45Papatulo ko.
02:46Iniluha ko dito sa kaliwa.
02:48Kaya-kaya ko yung sa kaliwa.
02:49Sa kanan.
02:50And then, my dad was against it.
02:53So, it was just my mom
02:54that would, you know,
02:55allow me to skip school
02:57and line up in the studio
02:59and really audition for, you know,
03:01the love team of John Prats.
03:03Ano pong pinagsasabi mo?
03:04Alam mo!
03:04Hindi talaga pwede!
03:06Hindi talaga!
03:07Huy!
03:07Ah!
03:08In fact,
03:09na-hurt pa ako before
03:10kasi sinabihan ako ni John Prats na,
03:13um,
03:15for every kwento ko daw,
03:17ba't ang dami mong facial expression?
03:19Kasi naman, no,
03:20she can't make promises,
03:21she can't keep.
03:23Teka,
03:24hindi lang naman ikaw siguro ang anak niya,
03:26di ba?
03:26Tapos, parang nahirita sila sa akin
03:28ng mga times yun.
03:29So, bubog ko yun.
03:30Pero, na-realize ko,
03:31it was my personality.
03:35Kasi, okay ka lang?
03:36Hindi.
03:37Kasi, okay ka lang?
03:38yun po natin at Laura,
03:39parang so,
03:40parang,
03:41it's so exciting.
03:42Saka yung characters niya,
03:43ang interesting!
03:46And,
03:46I didn't know kung paano kasi,
03:48parang sila, Camille Prats,
03:49they were all like,
03:50really great actresses.
03:51And, I remember at that time,
03:52I was the only Chinita girl.
03:54I was given a role,
03:56that was my role for a long time,
03:58kasi parang,
03:58naging,
03:59character role ko na yung pagiging maarte.
04:01When I,
04:03auditioned for mix,
04:04and I became a VJ,
04:06that I said,
04:06oh my gosh,
04:07this is what it feels like,
04:09to be myself.
04:11And, I remember styling myself.
04:12Those were all my clothes.
04:13Yung naalala ko lang,
04:15pag na-mix ako,
04:16that was the only time,
04:17na nakakatakas ako sa mom ko.
04:19Kasi from ASAP,
04:20or from the variety show,
04:23after that,
04:23I would have like,
04:24a two-hour break.
04:25And then, lahat ng mga nililigo sa akin,
04:27na mo kinikita.
04:28Kanyan.
04:28Sa studio lang naman.
04:30John Prats,
04:31Jeff Eigenman,
04:32no,
04:32we were just really friends.
04:35Oh my God,
04:36it's such a blur.
04:37I only dated,
04:39probably two guys,
04:40that I had my love team with.
04:42Like,
04:42it was Jericho and John Prats.
04:45Well, the first time I auditioned,
04:46I saw Mr. M,
04:47and,
04:48when he asked me to come forward,
04:50he said,
04:51can you sing?
04:52And then I said,
04:52yes.
04:53I asked that,
04:54je ne sais quoi.
04:56Brie,
04:57I don't know what it is,
04:58she has it.
05:00I don't know what it is,
05:01but it makes her a star.
05:02Garbo.
05:03She's got garbo.
05:04Um,
05:06I think,
05:06until I was 21.
05:08I even produced my own album.
05:10It reached the top 20 charts in Australia.
05:14And I remember,
05:14yung mga kasabayan ko,
05:16was po si Catdolls,
05:17ganyan.
05:17So,
05:18nakakaloko na, ha?
05:19Paano ko nagkaroon ng top 20 charts sa Australia?
05:22I remember when I shifted,
05:25it was kind of cloudy.
05:27I was going through something then.
05:29But,
05:29nakonek siya because,
05:31my dad,
05:32he was friends with Annabel Rama,
05:35who is so scared.
05:38she was really instrumental for me to move to GMA.
05:42And,
05:42I was really given a chance in GMA.
05:45I started to work non-stop.
05:47I was able to play,
05:48with Luna Mystica,
05:49I was able to play two characters.
05:51One that had prosthesis.
05:54Nakakabako na yung mukha ko!
05:56Nakawakan ko na ulit!
05:57So,
05:58I loved that.
05:58Dwarfina also,
05:59I was chromatized.
06:01Kasi wala akong ibang kasama dun.
06:03Nakawakan ko na.
06:06As a performing artist and actress,
06:10Hart's evolution is very clearly observed
06:13in the roles she's played.
06:16Of course, you had Legacy,
06:18my career at Jagia,
06:19pero for me,
06:20in terms of acting and art,
06:22those two stood out.
06:23So,
06:24I remember at that time,
06:26I was kind of lost in my career
06:29and I felt,
06:29okay, obviously,
06:30ni ako pwede mag-drama
06:32kasi pag umiyak ako,
06:33naka-dale art ako,
06:34hindi ako pwede mag-action
06:36kasi lang pa,
06:36hindi naman din ako dancer,
06:37hindi ako pwede mag-concert.
06:39What is it really?
06:40And,
06:40I really felt that my career
06:42was really about to end.
06:43I was really going through
06:44a lot of changes.
06:47And,
06:49how do I say?
06:50That's when I really discovered
06:52the different facets of my life
06:54that,
06:54am I to bury her
06:56or am I to carry on with her
06:57in the next chapter?
06:58My husband said,
07:00you have to already get over your fear,
07:02shock them all.
07:03We'll see you later.
07:04I'll see you later.
07:06Bye!
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