Why Vanessa Villela Went From Soap Star to Selling Sunset Realtor
You have kind of an interesting background, you moved from soap operas to now real estate! Talk to us about you what inspired that career pivot?My sister, she was a realtor and in San Diego, and she started doing really well. I had, maybe, like a six month [period] in between shows...and she told me, "Why don't you do it?" I was very active all the time. When I was not filming during that time of my life, I was a little annoyed with not doing anything...
My sister told me, "Okay, what we are going to do is a staging company. Let's open one in LA and then get your license." I was supposed to be in Miami for 10 days and I ended up staying eight weeks...so I came back on a Thursday, and the next day...on Friday, my sister passed away.I stayed with the staging company, to try and make something good out of all the hard work that she did...[but] then nothing was really going well in the company...