Blanca Blanco sizzles in a strappy bikini on the beach on the Caribbean island of Bonaire

Blanca Blanco is surely making the most of her winter with a vacation in the sunny Caribbean for the weekend.

The Tale Of Tails actress, who was last seen out and about in Beverly Hills before Christmas, posted a dozen sizzling photos of her making the most of some bikinis while enjoying the tropical temperatures of Bonaire.

The Breaking The Mold author appeared to be auditioning for the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition as she posed in the sand.

The star wore a colorful two-piece that highlighted her toned tummy and sculpted legs from her daily workout at a Los Angeles gym.

The mermaid also rocked a hot pink bikini that left little to the imagination.

The college grad, who dates John Savage of Deer Hunter fame, wore her thick chocolate brown hair down as she had done with light makeup.

Blanco was born and raised in Watsonville, California, along with two sisters and two brothers, to Mexican immigrant parents who worked various jobs to support them.

At the age of nine, her family moved to Chelan, Washington, where she began taking acting and singing classes and organizing theater performances in between her studies.

After high school, Blanca graduated from Washington State University with a BA in Psychology and from Eastern Washington University with a Master’s in Social Work. She then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting.

Her first major role was in the 2008 feature film Dark Reel (2008) opposite Edward Furlong.

Notable screen credits include Bullet (2014) opposite Danny Trejo, Anatomy of Deception (2014), Crimes of the Mind (2014), Defending Santa (2013) (ION) and Bermuda Tentacles (2014) (Syfy). His films Teen Star Academy (2017), 6 Children & 1 Grandfather (2018) and Mission Possible (2018) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016, 2017 and 2018 respectively.

Recently released films include Fake News (2017), Betrayed (2018) and Torch (2021). In 2018 she began filming The Dog of Christmas (2021).

The beauty’s early years were tough as she had to suffer physical abuse from her father and also live a life of poverty in Washington state that saw her reside in a garage for years.

She detailed those difficult days in her book Breaking The Mold.

‘I wrote BREAKING THE MOLD during the COVID lockdown because I felt my story could help others as poverty and abuse have been on the rise. I’ll take you on my journey from rags to success and how I did it,” the Mission: Possible actress told DailyMail.com.

“I share and provide tools and techniques that have worked for me,” he said of his book, which came out of Briton Publishing.

The Cannes Film Festival favorite added: “My book is an autobiography and I share about childhood poverty, abuse and how I overcame it.” I feel like it will motivate readers if they get caught up in a bad situation.’

She was isolated during her painful youth, never having the support system she really needed, especially at school.

‘I never told my classmates about our poverty, living in a garage, because I wanted them to treat me like they did: a normal kid! No one knew, not even the teachers.

He also shared an excerpt with DailyMail.com about the abuse he endured. “It happened when we lived in Mexico as children, but the abuse continued over the years.”

Her father was not loving, she said, and instead was an “abusive father and husband.”

“He used to hit us and used a ‘Chicote’, a type of switch or whip used to control horses to hit us,” she shared.

“He even pointed his gun at our mother’s head and threatened to shoot her right in front of us. We were all afraid of him, especially our mother. We were all crying and trying to protect our mother who he had pushed onto the bed and we were surrounding her and begging her not to shoot.

“His rage and uncontrolled rage was because she was asking him for money to buy us food when he suddenly blew up.”

‘This continued even when we were older. He went to attack me when our mother was dying, but this time I stood up to him and dared him to touch me. He was older now and he was no longer afraid of her. He backed away, surprised that he was challenging him!’

Blanco was born in Watsonville, California.

At the age of three, his family moved to southwestern Mexico.

His father was a police officer there and was shot twice, forcing the family to return to the US to hopefully live the American Dream. Blanca was nine years old.

His family of seven lived in poverty throughout his childhood, living in a small garage with no hot water, no shower, and no heat as he braved the frigid Washington state winters.

They then moved to a small trailer in a small trailer park, often with unsafe water that caused illness.

He attended Chelan High School, where he was determined not to remain in poverty.

Coming out of school, he became the school’s role model to the younger graduating students and made a motivational video to help them.

With the help of her guardian angel, a caring teacher, she said, she achieved “full scholarships that allowed her to continue through college and then college.”

She became the first Latina woman in the area to go to college by working hard to graduate and continue on her full scholarships, where she earned an Associate of Science degree from Spokane Falls Community College.

She then went to Washington State University with a 4.0 GPA and earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology followed by a master’s degree in social work from Eastern Washington State University.

Her first job after receiving her Masters of Social Work was in hospice care. Deciding to follow her dreams, she moved to Los Angeles, where she became an actress and studied with Gordon Hunt (Helen Hunt’s father).

He immediately landed many film and television roles. The star garnered a Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Melanie in the film Betrayed.

The foreword is by Edward I. Byrnes, Ph.D. Professor of Social Work – Eastern Washington University.