Trivia / Yo soy Betty, la fea

• Executive Meddling: Brazilian actress Taís Araújo make a guest appearance As Herself. When the soap was eventually bought by the Brazilian TV channel RedeTV!, they wanted Tais to dub her own lines in Brazilian Portuguese. By that time, however, she was already working for a rival channel, Rede Globo, which didn't authorize her to do it. Then, she was dubbed by voice actress Letícia Quinto.
• Follow the Leader: Even ignoring the Trans Atlantic Equivalents; after the soap aired there was a boom of badly-planned soaps who tried to cash in the "non-pretty heroine". And Betty itself was halted and heavily reworked by its author because a soap named La mujer en el espejo (about an unpretty woman who becomes beautiful after a Deal with the Devil) aired just before.
• Reality Subtext: Ana María Orozco and Julian Arango, the actors who interpreted Betty and Hugo Lombardi respectively, were married in real life, but got divorced during the soap. Their respective characters were ideological opposites, and is believed that the bitterness both held for each other helped to make their confrontations more realistic.
• Shoot the Money: The episodes filmed in Cartagena de Indias were sure to shoot the scenery of the place for all its worth.
• What Could Have Been: One storyline had a company hoping to make a deal with Eco Moda by trying to convince Betty, behind Armando's back, to accept a "commission" (read: try to bribe her) to influence Armando into making business with them. Betty struggles with the decision a long time (even having a prolongued Imagine Spot about what she would do with the money) but eventually refuses and tells Armando of the attempted deal. Originally, Betty was actually supposed to accept it, but the President of Colombia at the time, Andrés Pastrana, caught wind of it and told the producers to not go through with it, telling them that with the soap being watched by millions, the heroine accepting a bribe would both would be crushing for a lot of people and would normalize corruption (the fact that the Colombian government was dealing with several corruption scandals at the time didn't help matters).