La Usurpadora is a Mexican telenovela (soap opera) made by Televisa in 1998 and starring Gabriela Spanic and Fernando Colunga .

La Usurpadora (The Ursurper) tells the story of two young women who are twin sisters. One is a kind and generous woman who lives in poverty with her agonizing mother. The other is the mother of two and married to a handsome and successful bussinessman who hides her hipocrisy, ambition, and evilness under a mask of beauty. As the plot comes to its climax, we find that Paola has forced Paulina to take her place inher home while she takes a vaction with her lover. Paola never returns after the year that they set as time limit. In that year many things change: everyone has fallen in love with the new Paola .who no one knows is truly Paulina. In the misdt of happiness, the ghost of Paola comes back to haunt the Bracho family and she demands her place as wife and mother. She acusses Paulina of usurpation and she is carried away to jail. The two women must find themselves in this complicated story of hate, love, passion, and intrigue.