Eileen Navarro

Eileen Navarro (born 28 September 1958) is a Puerto Rican actress who has been in several well known telenovelas in her country, as well as the 1984 film production "Coneccion Caribe", where a young Navarro shared credits with Puerto Rican boy band "Los Chicos de Puerto Rico" (which, at the time included the now international singing star "Chayanne") and with Juan Manuel Lebron and Otilio "Bizcocho" Warrington, among others.

Early life Navarro was born in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, a suburb of San Juan, the daughter of well known cook and cooking book author Myriam Felipez and her husband, announcer Paquito Navarro.

Health problems Navarro was wrongly diagnosed with Lipedema, and she had a total of 12 different surgeries related to the disease. She does suffer from fibromialgia and depression.

She went public about her struggles with depression, abandonment by her family and a negative economical situation during 2019. "To my family, I was like Cinderella...my family practically left me abandoned", she told Puerto Rican senator Evelyn Vázquez on a WIPR-TV television show named "Mujer, No Estas Sola! Rompe el Silencio!" ("Woman, You Are Not Alone! Break Your Silence!"), where she added that she "(knew) what it is like to be hungry and having only one water bottle in the refrigerator...luckily, God has always put little angels in my walk of life". Navarro has tried to commit suicide four times.

In 2018, Navarro had a double mastectomy done in Los Angeles, California.