Janice De Belen On How It Feels Playing Wife To Brother In Law Ariel Rivera In New Soap

HOW DOES Janice de Belen feel that she and real life brother in law Ariel Rivera play husband and wife in new ABS soap “Ina Kapatid Anak”? “Okay lang, trabaho lang,” she says. “Basta walang kissing scene o bed scene dahil awkward naman yon.”

The show offers three sets of conflicted love stories. First belong to the senior citizens of 60 and above involving Eddie Gutierrez, Pilar Pilapil and Ronaldo Valdez. The second belong to the mid-lifers of 40 and above with Janice de Belen, Cherry Pie Picache and Ariel Rivera. The last one involves 20 somethings Kim Chiu, Maja Salvador, Enchong Dee and Xian Lim.

Ronaldo is Pilar’s first love but she left him as he’s just a poor shoemaker and chooses the rich but controlling Eddie Gutierrez. Janice (daughter of Eddie and Pilar) and Ariel can’t have kids as Janice has a problematic uterus so they ask Cherry Pie (daughter of Pilar and Ronaldo) to be a substitute mom, with Janice’s egg fertilized by Ariel’s sperm planted by a doctor inside Cherry Pie’s uterus.

Cherry Pie previously had a daughter with John Regala, a gambler who sold their baby and she never saw the child again. Janice got jealous of Cherry Pie, who used to be Ariel’s good friend, and the half sisters had a fight. Cherry Pie left pregnant and raised her kid in Cebu to be Kim Chiu. Janice and Ariel adopt a girl, who grows up to be Maja Salvador. It’s easy to guess that Maja will later be revealed as Cherry Pie’s long lost elder daughter, to make this a story of two sets of half sisters: Janice and Cherry Pie, Kim and Maja.