Spanish Model Olalla Oliveros Trades Career to Become a Nun
Top model Olalla Oliveros has traded in glamor to become a nun.
Despite her thriving career as a model and actress, the Spanish beauty has decided to don a blue sackcloth and a veil and join the Order of Saint Michael as a nun.
She told El Diario de Carlos Paz that she decided to change lifestyles after visiting The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima in Portugal, where she felt an "internal earthquake." She also said she was increasingly unhappy despite her worldly success, before becoming a nun.
After visiting the famous shrine, she imagined herself dressed as a nun. Although she initially found the idea "absurd," she couldn't shake the vision, according to the National Catholic Register. She then consulted with a priest in Madrid and realized God was calling her.
"The Lord is never wrong. He asked if I [would] follow him, and I could not refuse," Oliveros said, according to NCR.
Her agent, Mirella Melero, says Oliveros' choice was not due to career struggles -- she had just landed a movie role.
Oliveros entered the order four years ago but only recently decided to open up about her decision to become Sister Olalla del Sí de María.
Oliveros isn't the only model-turned-nun. In 2005, Sister Amada Rosa Pérez quit being a top Colombian model to work with a Marian religious community. "I want to be a model that promotes the true dignity of women and not their being used for commercial purposes," she told El Tiempo in 2010.
"I grew tired of a world of lies, appearances, falsity, hypocrisy and deception, a society full of anti-values that exalts violence, adultery, drugs, alcohol, fighting, and a world that exalts riches, pleasure, sexual immorality and fraud," she said.
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