Ana De la Reguera walks with children from the city of La Antigua.
Heat pours down from the Mexican sun onto the old house, standing strong despite its crumbling bricks and mortar, shot through with tree sprouts. Heavy, ponderous tree trunks loom in every window. From her vantage point on the second-floor balcony of a nearby cultural museum, Ana de la Reguera can see the home that belonged to Hernán Cortés 500 years ago. That spot, above the city of La Antigua, is De la Reguera’s favorite place in Veracruz.
Ana De la Reguera is many things. Vogue Latinoamérica named her one of the 33 most elegant women in the world, and Univision calls her one of the most influential Latinas in the United States. She has been the face of many brands, such as CoverGirl, Pantene, Macy’s, and Caress, and she has graced the international covers of Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, InStyle, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Marie Claire, Esquire, and Elle. In fact, Esquire magazine pinned her as “the impossibly beautiful woman.”
She studied performance arts at the Instituto Veracruzano de Cultura and started her career as the host of Pasarela on Televisa Veracruz. De la Reguera broke into acting with a role in the telenovela Azul in 1996. Her first appearance on American television was on Cara o Cruz, which was marketed to Hispanic populations living in the United States. In 2014, she starred in horror-thriller Jessabelle; cross-border comedy Sun Belt Express; and The Book of Life alongside Channing Tatum, Zoe Saldana, and Christina Applegate.