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—How did the concern for painting arise in you? —When I was a teenager, watching my mother paint in oils. The day I returned from the Maldives after having represented Uruguay in Miss World 2000, I decided to paint a postcard that I had bought there. To this day that painting hangs on my walls, I love it. I did it with all the freshness that implies not knowing any technique and therefore, it has a lot of character.
—You are part of Laura Morás' workshop. With what interest did you arrive and how do you assess the results so far? —Yes, I have been going to classes two hours a week for a year and I discovered that not only did I improve a lot, but also that the human group of “my” nights of painting are much more than that… so although I went looking to know how to portray faces human beings, for the moment not only did I achieve it, but I gained an incredible group of friends. We do catharsis and we all give ourselves forward in life. Healthy therapy, which every woman needs, beyond clearing the mind through connecting with your painting and in your painting nothing else.
—How often do you paint? -Everyday of my life. I have the living room of my house already totally invaded by racks and lecterns, with rows of paintings in process waiting their turn. I paint more than one at a time because oil takes a long time to dry completely.
—What are your plans in the plastic arts? —My goal is to finish the two collections that I am preparing as soon as possible to continue exhibiting and selling through foreign embassies in Uruguay and Uruguayan embassies in the world. I appreciate ideas from people who are on the subject, of course. But certainly my idea is to aim outside. I already have one of great faces (Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth II, Steven Tyler from Aerosmith, Freddy Mercury from Queen, Sir Winston Churchill, Claudia Schiffer, etc.) and another one from Rocha, in which I am trying to capture scenes that are very Rochen for that matter. say it (Bridge over Laguna Garzón, kitesurfing, beaches, La Paloma, etc). If these two samples sell well, nobody stops me! (And if not, neither!)
—You have a great career as a model, especially in the United States and Europe, do you consider that chapter closed? —As they say that love never ends, but rather changes, a little of that happens to me here. I have other priorities today, being a divorced mom with four kids to care for and support. I mean, taking my career seriously would mean getting back on the road abroad and traveling for months. It's a great earring but at the moment I don't see it likely. But I'm not closing it at all.
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—You are turning 40 today, Saturday 29, what does that age mean in your life, that number? —The truth is that I have been thinking about this party for many years… I imagined a thousand scenarios except the current one. I imagined throwing a mega party! Every 5 years those who know me know it; I throw a big theme or costume party, and 40 was going to be iconic. The greatest celebration of life. But to think like that, I was doing it from my comfort zone, thinking that life would not take away everything I had at that moment. And, without even mentioning the coronavirus issue, today I think that to celebrate my life the only ones who cannot miss it are my children... and not even that is going to touch me because Valentino is studying French in Paris until March. The truth is that I learned to be happy with what I have minute by minute. And of course, there are several friends who are going to come and toast with me in José Ignacio and with those who are there I am going to have an incredible time. 40 is just a number. My mental age is different and I feel of a universal age, timeless, difficult to capture in a number.
—You went through a separation from your husband some time ago, what was it like living through that process? - That's right, we separated in October 2018, we announced it to the family in February 2019 and the divorce came out in December of that same year, after 22 years of relationship in total, of which 16 of marriage. It was a Dantesque process for me, because I felt that life had taken everything I knew from me, all the material things I had and mainly, my great travel companion and the mega family project that we have between the two of us. But it didn't turn out to be so bad looking at it with Monday's newspaper, because today I understand that the project didn't fall apart because we will always have it, only from another type of relationship between him and me. I came out of all that pain very strong, much more than I ever imagined myself to be. I am well planted on my feet, open to the beautiful things that life still has for me. Today I am, without a doubt, version 2.0 of who I used to be.
—How much did it cost to make the decision based on the fact that it was your partner of practically all your life? -Not much. We were very close, the best friends in the world. But it had been years since we shared values or ways of life, which led us to argue sometimes, but to keep quiet, most of the time. One day in October 2018 he came from work, we put the boys to bed and instead of sitting down to watch the news and chat as usual, he sat on a stool in the living room with paper and pencil in hand and began to make me a list of the things that each one would do and that would fall to each one if one day we separated. It even included visits from the children. I, who was no stranger to how bad we had been, was surprised but not that much. I went along with it and in December I went to my house in José Ignacio and a year later the divorce was already signed. Making the decision was much easier than dealing with the pain I felt afterwards. But it was a good decision for the good, mainly, of our children.
—How would you define the current bond with your ex? —The current bond with my ex is very cordial. The common interest we have is to raise our children. Given the circumstances, which are not those of the classic family that I lived in when I was a girl, I think we get along super well. The nice thing is that each one knew how to rearm.
—A while ago you said that you had been a victim of bullying at school. How do you think it marked you? — She made me very shy in adolescence and it affected my self-esteem a lot. But it also made me develop an empathic side that I might never have had if not for that experience. And it made me resilient as I couldn't.
"Have you discussed the situation with those fellow bullies?" —No, I'm not interested because it's not about them. The talk that I am still waiting for is the one pending with the authorities of the institution that tolerated it and therefore allowed it. I can tell you that after that program you were referring to, many students from the same educational center entrusted me with similar stories on Instagram.
—You are a mother of four children, how much impact has motherhood had on your life? —Motherhood gave me more wisdom than all my years in law school combined, let's put it that way. Motherhood makes me live for them before for myself and I think that the best thing of all was having so many children, because I learned to anticipate the needs of totally different personality types, with which I grew a lot as a human being. The versatility of characters and interests of my boys makes me the richest woman on the planet.
"Would you like one of your daughters to be a model?" “No more than anything else they choose to be. And them. The oldest, for example, has already campaigned as a boy when and because he wanted to, moreover, sometimes dealing directly with my manager Carlos Camara because I didn't encourage him much on the subject. She took advantage if Carlos came to the house and they talked about business. If it comes to them to use their beauty to work as models, I would never stop them, but neither would I impose that or any other profession on beings who are, in my eyes, a blank canvas. Free.