2026年6月15日 / 美国东部时间下午2:25 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：格蕾丝·贝克
从坐拥庞大美妆帝国到投身天主教弥撒——斯科特·文森特·博尔巴曾联合创立e.l.f. Cosmetics，但却发现自己的人生道路依旧充满空虚。随后他转向信仰上帝，抛下一切成为了一名神职人员。
在进入神学院、披上神父圣袍之前，博尔巴曾活跃于红毯之上，也因商业头脑获得业界赞誉。
“我来到世上只是为了工作、应酬、日复一日，然后走向死亡吗？”功成名就的博尔巴曾这样扪心自问。
博尔巴在加利福尼亚州维塞利亚的一个虔诚的天主教家庭长大。他表示，自己在10岁时就首次感受到了投身神职的召唤。
“我知道上帝在对我说……他希望我成为他的神父。但我立刻回绝了，说‘我不是那块料’，”博尔巴回忆道，“我逃离了这份感召，逃了很长一段时间。”
博尔巴搬到洛杉矶，同时打三份工拼命打拼。
某天，他看到女性顾客在99美分店大量购买打折化妆品，由此萌生了创立e.l.f. Cosmetics的灵感：“打造与丝芙兰同品质、售价仅一美元的美妆产品。”
“能看到最初只是一个简单构想的东西，最终取得如此独一无二的成功，实在令人动容，”他说。
博尔巴将e.l.f.（“眼睛、嘴唇、脸部”的缩写） Cosmetics打造成了价值数百万美元的“盈利颇丰的企业”，但他表示，这份成功仍不足以让他感到满足。
“我永远想要更多，永远得不到满足，”博尔巴说，“我赚再多钱都不够，出席再多红毯都不够，在电视或杂志上曝光再多都不够。这是个填不满的欲望深渊。”
随后悲剧降临：博尔巴的父亲安东尼·博尔巴 Sr. 被诊断出胰腺癌。博尔巴回到家乡照料病重的父亲。
“我从未见过父亲如此害怕。他说：‘我想要在离世前了结一些事。你愿意帮我吗？’我说：‘爸，我们一起面对，我会为你找到最好的医生。’”
2010年，安东尼·博尔巴 Sr. 去世。
博尔巴表示，父亲的离世让他的生活彻底崩塌，“彻底击垮了我的情绪”。
他开始借由频繁派对逃避现实。
正是在好莱坞山住宅举办的一场派对上，博尔巴经历了那场“神秘的”皈依时刻。
“我记得我环顾四周，内心无比痛苦……我抬头望向天堂。我记得我向上帝求助，希望成为他创造我时期许的样子，但没有他的帮助我做不到。那一刻彻底改变了我的人生，”他说，“我把所有人都赶出了房子，收拾好行李去了一家酒店。在进门之前，我双膝跪地，开始痛哭，说道：‘这不是上帝创造我时期许的样子。这不是我父母教导我要成为的人。’就在那时，一扇美丽的金色大门敞开了，我们的主走了进来，我本能地知道那就是他。”
那一刻，他便笃定自己要成为一名神父。博尔巴表示，他捐出了全部财产，用于资助教堂和慈善机构。随后他进入了神学院。
“我想要陪伴那些身处痛苦之中的人，因为我懂得何为痛苦，”博尔巴说。
父亲去世后，博尔巴的家庭因他在父亲临终前做出的一些决定而四分五裂，但在博尔巴的晋铎仪式上，家人们时隔多年首次重聚。
“我感到无比自豪，”他的母亲伊芙琳说道。
几周后，博尔巴主持了第一场公开弥撒。
“如果你正在人生、家庭和事业中追寻爱与平和，那就投向他吧。带着平和前行，为你的人生增添光彩，”博尔巴分享道。
Why the millionaire co-founder of e.l.f. Cosmetics left his beauty empire to become a Catholic priest
June 15, 2026 / 2:25 PM EDT / CBS News
By Grace Baek
From a massive beauty empire to Catholic Mass — Scott Vincent Borba co-founded e.l.f. Cosmetics, but found he still felt unfulfilled in his life path. Then he turned to God, leaving it all behind to become a man of the cloth.
Before heading to seminary and taking up the priestly collar, Borba enjoyed red carpets and professional acclaim for his business acumen.
“Was I created just to work and to party and to repeat and then die?” Borba recalled wondering amid his success.
Borba was raised by a deeply Catholic family in Visalia, California. He said he first felt called to join the priesthood when he was 10 years old.
“I knew God was telling me … he wanted me to be his priest. But I immediately challenged it back and said, ‘I am not that guy,’” Borba remembered. “I ran away from him for quite a long time.”
Borba moved to Los Angeles, hustling with three jobs.
One day, he was watching women load up on discounted cosmetics at a 99 Cent store when the idea for e.l.f. Cosmetics struck him: “Sephora-based quality products for a dollar.”
“It’s so humbling to understand that something that started out with such a simple concept could be so uniquely successful,” he said.
Borba turned e.l.f. (short for Eyes, Lips, Face) Cosmetics into a “lucrative business” worth many millions – but he said it still wasn’t enough to satisfy him.
“I always wanted more. It was never satisfying enough,” Borba said. “I couldn’t make enough money. I couldn’t be on enough red carpets. I couldn’t be exposed enough on TV or in magazines. It was insatiable.”
Then heartbreak arrived: Borba’s father, Anthony Borba Sr., was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Borba headed home to care for his ailing dad.
“I never saw my father scared before. He said, ‘I need to close out my life before I go. Will you help me with that?’ I said, ‘Dad. We’re going to do this together and I’m going to find you the best doctors ever.’”
In 2010, Anthony Borba Sr. died.
Borba said his life began to unravel with the loss that “broke me apart emotionally.”
He began partying more as a way to escape.
It was during one of those parties at his house in Hollywood Hills that Borba experienced his “mystical” come-to-Jesus moment.
“I remember looking around. I was so unhappy … I looked up to heaven. I remember I asked God to help me be the man he created me to be, but I couldn’t do it without his help. It changed my life,” he said. “I kicked everyone out of the house. I packed my bag and I went down to a hotel. I fell to my knees right before I walked into the door, I started crying and I said, ‘This is not the man God created me to be. This is not the man my mother and father raised.’ And that’s when this beautiful golden portal opened up and our Lord was walking in and I just knew intuitively that it was him.”
At that moment, he knew he would become a priest. Borba said he gave away his wealth, funding churches and charities. Then he entered seminary.
“I want to be there for people that are suffering because I understand suffering,” Borba said.
Borba’s family fractured after his father’s death, driven apart by decisions made by Borba in those final days — but they gathered for the first time since his death at Borba’s ordination.
“I felt so proud,” his mother, Evelyn, said.
Borba’s first public Mass took place a few weeks later.
“If you’re searching out for love and peace in your life and families and businesses out in the world, come to him. Go in peace and bring glory to your lives,” Borba shared.
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