Days of Our Lives’ Camila Banus Shares an Uber-Romantic Photo Dump to Send a Special Message to Her Handsome Husband

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She really is the luckiest in love!

Gabi, we’re pretty sure, is going to be in for one rude awakening sooner or later when it comes to Days of Our Lives‘ Li. About the only uncertainty in their relationship is whether Gabi will learn that he’s been using and manipulating her before or after they’re married! Though who knows, now that Stefan took his stock options back, Li might decide his love mark isn’t worth the effort and move on to another plan.

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But that’s a problem for another day. On this one, we’re celebrating a happy occasion in Camila Banus’ real-life relationship, which is on far healthier ground than Gabi’s ever managed! Of course, the actress doesn’t have all that scheming and power grabbing to worry about in her actual marriage, and there are no in-laws or semi-mad doctors brainwashing hubby Marlon Aquino, so we figure that helps too. At least we assume there aren’t…

Either way, Sunday, October 2 was a time to celebrate because, as she posted on Instagram, “It’s my husband’s birthday!”

The kaleidoscope of photos in the video showed them out and about, living life in everything from fancy dress, to casual and everything in between. One thing is clear in every single one of them: the love shared between Banus and Aquino!

“Happy birthday, my love, Marlon Aquino,” she exclaimed. “The day mi amorcito bello was born, I am so blessed to have you in my life, I hope today is filled with love and happiness. Wish I could be next to you to celebrate you a lo maximo.” “Te amo Marlon Aquino con todo mi corazón,” she finished, declaring she loved him with all her heart and signing it, “Tu esposa” (Your wife)!

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Will Gabi ever get this kind of legitimate happiness? Eh… we doubt it. Not unless she decides to step back from the DiMera world and leave them, the Shins and everyone who ever even thought of working at DiMera Enterprise alone. But hey, at least she’s going after her dreams.

Oh, and happy birthday to Aquino!

Check out our photo gallery of Banus’ most memorable moments as the one and only Gabi!

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Ironically, Banus was not originally cast as Gabi, Gabriella Rodriguez was. “They told me that they wanted to go a little bit younger for the part,” Banus told TheCelebrityCafe.com. “So I put it out of my mind.” A couple of months later — wonder of wonders — the NBC soap decided that they wanted Banus after all. “I actually said no,” she recalled. But the show was so persistent that eventually, “I felt there was something there and that I had to do this.” The rest, as you well know, is history.

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Once Gabi gave up on Will — bye, Felicia! — she retraced her steps to her ex, Chad DiMera (then Casey Diedrick), who was so into Melanie Jonas that he wouldn’t have known she was alive if he’d pressed a stethoscope to her chest. So Gabi did what any self-respecting gal would do and… wait, whaaat? She invented a stalker, then hired someone to play the part who was so perfect for it, he planted a rat in her food and took Melanie hostage. Way to commit, bro! Sick and all kindsa wrong, sure, but still… way to commit!

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Gabi’s relationship with Nick continued to be a source of… well, whatever the opposite of comfort is. They tied the knot, only to annul the marriage after a run-in with the prison inmate who’d raped Nick. On one hand, he couldn’t handle being with Arianna’s mother; on the other, he couldn’t handle being apart from her. Ultimately, they had an altercation in the woods that left him dead — or so she thought — and, thanks to an assist from unlikely allies Kate Roberts and Sami Brady, residing at the bottom of the river.

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Owing to a sentencing error — thank you, terrible court clerk! — Gabi didn’t wind up spending a decade behind bars. Once sprung from the pokey, she dated JJ Deveraux, who cheated on her with Lani Price, then moved on with “late” bestie Abigail DiMera’s “widower,” her own ex, Chad. Big mistake. Having never read an article like this, Gabi was unaware that no one in Salem ever really dies, so she was completely unprepared for Abigail’s resurrection and subsequent reunion with Chad.

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From there, things only got worse for Gabi. Her subsequent romance with Eli Grant was done in when she learned that he’d two-timed her with Lani — her again?!? On top of that, Andre DiMera stole from Gabi her design firm, dang it! Bad as all that was, it was only the tip of the iceberg! Gabi was sent back up the river for Andre’s murder — Abigail’s alter, “Gabby,” did the deed (and not with a cellphone, as this image suggests) — resulting in her being beaten so badly that Arianna was destined to be an only child!

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Once freed, Gabi entered into a marriage of convenience with the Abby-obsessed Stefan DiMera that, to everyone’s surprise, turned into the real deal… just in time for him to take a meeting with his maker, courtesy of… Oh, you have got to be kidding! Lani?!? Incensed, Gabi deployed a heart-attack app (that no matter how many times we’ve looked, we’ve yet to find!) to threaten Eli’s grandma, Julie, and scare her nemesis outta going through with her marriage.

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Carson Boatman, Camila Banus "Days of our Lives" Set NBC Studios Burbank 10/21/21 © XJJohnson/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661 Episode # 14301 U.S.Airdate 03/23/22

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<p>Talk about weird science! Though when Dr. Wilhelm Rolf plopped Jake’s heart into Stefan’s body, it continued to beat for Gabi, Li ordered the mad genius to reprogram the organ to instead have palpitations anytime the hirsute Lazarus heated up a warm thought of old flame Chloe Lane.</p>

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