{"id":180977,"date":"2018-09-11T04:17:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T08:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=180977"},"modified":"2018-09-11T04:17:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T08:17:09","slug":"dimming-light-rhed-bustamantes-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/11\/dimming-light-rhed-bustamantes-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimming light: Rhed Bustamante’s career"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Six years ago, Rhed called \u201cBaby Rhed\u201d first shone in \u201cIt\u2019s Showtime\u201d in the show\u2019s Bida Kapamilya segment \u2013 where she was invited to be part of the family. She soon vanished from the show a few months after, but was seen on television screens and big screens in the shoes of different characters. (Photo<\/a>: Rhed Bustamante\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Celebrities can be compared to the twinkling stars in the blanket of the dark sky at night. Some are small (or scientifically speaking, farther), some are bright, some are dim and there are different colors. Not all stars are noticeable. Not all are seen. Not all enlighten the night.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the world to stardom is not all about the flashing lights, the screaming fans, and the cues of the director. The path to fame is embedded with the uncertainty of staying in it.<\/p>\n

This was probably one of the earliest lessons that the 11-year old Rhed Bustamante learned.<\/p>\n

Six years ago, Rhed called \u201cBaby Rhed\u201d first shone in \u201cIt\u2019s Showtime\u201d in the show\u2019s Bida Kapamilya segment \u2013 where she was invited to be part of the family. She soon vanished from the show a few months after, but was seen on television screens and big screens in the shoes of different characters.<\/p>\n

She starred in the Kapamilya show \u201cGalema\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s Showtime\u201d host Vice Ganda\u2019s \u201cGirl, Boy, Bakla, Tomboy\u201d and \u201cPraybeyt Benjamin.\u201d Rhed also touched the horror scene in her role in \u201cMaria Leonora Teresa.\u201d<\/p>\n

The opportunities were more dazzling for Rhed as she started annoying and irritating viewers with her sharp tongue and signature eye-roll as the antagonist Liza<\/em> in the afternoon drama \u201cFlor de Liza.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rhed also got awards in her chilling performance in the award-winning Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) horror entry \u201cSeklusyon\u201d where she played the role of an \u2018angel\u2019 that healed people and performed miracles, but is actually the devil incarnate.<\/p>\n

However, as blinding as this light of opportunities, Rhed\u2019s career also blindingly sunk to the darkness \u2013 away from the celebrity life.<\/p>\n

In a recent episode of Rated K, the team featured Rhed\u2019s 180-degree-return to her life of poverty.<\/p>\n

\u201cAkala ko po kung mag-a-artista ka, maraming mag-o-<\/em>offer sa’yo, pero ‘di po pala ganun. ‘Di po pala ganun kadali maging artista po<\/em> (I thought when you are a celebrity, a lot will give you offers, but it is not like that. It is not easy to be a star),\u201d the 11-year old told Rated K.<\/p>\n

Rhed, who is presently continuing her studies, said that she still wishes to be back in the limelight to help her family.<\/p>\n

She revealed that they are looking for a new place to stay in as they are unable to pay for the rent. As the youngest of three, she and the Bustamante family are relying on the head of the family, but Rhed\u2019s father has an illness that prohibits him to work.<\/p>\n

But her father is not the only one who is sickly in the family, as Rhed, herself, has incontinentia pigmenti. It is a skin disease that affects even the hair and the teeth.<\/p>\n

\u201cMahirap po isipin kasi ganun po talaga \u2018yung buhay po tapos minsan po di ko na rin po alam kung anong gagawin po para makatulong\u00a0 sa pamilya ko po <\/em>(It is difficult to face but this is what life is. Sometimes, I also do not know what I can do to help my family),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Rhed still hopes to once again step back to the world of the celebrities, not for fame, but for her family. However, she said that she has the resilience to face this life all over again, as she grew up from this before stardom.<\/p>\n

If there was one thing that she learned from all these experiences, it is that \u201c\u2018Wag po tayong mag<\/em>-expect kasi po masakit po siya kapag hindi nangyari<\/em> (Let us not expect because it hurts if what we expect does not happen),\u201d Rhed uttered in the same interview.<\/p>\n

For now, as she faces these obstacles in her early years, Rhed said that praying to the Lord is one of things that are important to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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