00:00Everything went wrong? Join the convent! Well, at least that's how these young women from
00:06telenovelas used to think. Mónica, telenovela Corazón Salvaje. Mónica had been engaged to
00:14marry Andrés for as long as she could remember, without imagining that her fiancé had no idea
00:21about the arrangement. Unfortunately, after meeting Aimé, the slutty sister of poor Mónica,
00:27the fanfic fiancé decided that she was the one he wanted to marry. Mónica decided to enter the
00:34convent for a mix of reasons—disappointment with love, lack of a dowry to marry another man,
00:41and mainly to spare herself the scorn of high society. It was better for everyone to think
00:48that she herself had broken off the engagement because she felt God's calling. Only God had
00:55other callings for her, so to speak. After a brief period of suffering scrubbing floors with her
01:02countess' hands, Mónica's confessor and the mother superior of the convent decided that she did not
01:09belong there and rejected the poor girl. A second rejection. But let's say some misfortunes come for
01:17the best. 2. Alfonsina. Telenovela El Manantial. This one had one of the strangest motivations on
01:26the list, and Freud would probably have loved to turn this crazy woman upside down.
01:35Alfonsina decided she was tired of living with a woman who slept with everyone. And to distance herself,
01:42she decided to enter the convent. Alfonsina had suffered abuse a few years earlier,
01:49and I think that motivation would have made more sense. Here, it seemed as if the telenovela heroine
01:56put herself on a pedestal, as if she were superior to her mother with her purity impulses.
02:02I know Francisca was not a model of an exemplary mother, but I confess I feel resentment when Alfonsina
02:10positions herself as the champion of morality. Besides, her attitude was quite unchristian,
02:17judging like most of those people who think they're the host of the mass, and only woke up
02:22from her outburst when Francisca tried to take her own life. The priest uncle went to fetch the girl
02:28from the convent and rub in her face that it was neither a holiday camp nor a spiritual retreat.
02:34Selena, telenovela rebelde. If Alfonsina's motivation was the weirdest, this was the most
02:41nonsensical case of all. Selena, a minor who was still in high school, one fine day suffered yet
02:49another of her romantic disappointments and decided she wanted to become a nun. The best part of this
02:56completely crazy plot was Mia's reaction, taking photos of her friend who was basically chinless inside
03:02her schoolgirl novice habit. Don't ask me what made her wake up from the outburst, because I don't
03:09remember, and I don't even want to go back and watch that telenovela. Cecilia, telenovela Cadenas de
03:16Amargura. Cecilia's motivations are a mix of what we have seen so far from the others. At the same time
03:24that she wanted to escape the oppressive clutches of her evil aunt, the young woman also wanted to flee
03:30from the love she felt for the guy who was going to marry her best friend, supposedly pregnant by him.
03:36Despite having invaded the convent and issued threats to the poor nuns, Aunt Evangelina was unable to get
03:44her niece out of there. The only one who managed to do so was the little leading man. After the
03:49ex's
03:50farce was discovered, he goes to declare himself and asks Cecilia to marry him, surrounded by a bunch
03:56of little nuns. What makes this scene weird is the fact that the girl is dressed in a religious habit.
04:04But anyway, all for the sake of good old drama. Maria Elena, telenovela El Derecho de Nacer.
04:12Imagine being about to get married and being left standing at the altar because the groom supposedly died
04:20in a supposed accident. Having a lost son she could not find and without the man she loved,
04:28Maria Elena decides to enter the convent because, according to her, there was nothing left for her
04:35in the world. For these women from telenovelas, life in the convent could only be two things,
04:41an escape from the real world, or the last alternative of a highly messed up life.
04:49Rosario, telenovela El Premio Mayor. Another one who decides to enter the convent mourning a deceased
04:56love, Rosario's decision does not last at all because she soon discovers she is expecting,
05:04only that she followed the light straight to another life, dying after having her baby.
05:12Well, this list has come to an end, and now I want to know which of these cases you found
05:19the most
05:20absurd. Leave your opinion in the comments, and until the next video.
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