Belen Rodriguez It’s not an last-minute discovery. Behind that breathtaking beauty there is hidden – but not too much – an intelligent, ironic, spontaneous, determined and successful woman. But – thank God – also imperfect, with her fears, her fragilities, her worries and her dreams, many already fully realized, like the one they prophesied to her grandmother when she was a child. ‘I will become a star’, she said as a child, and so it was. In Benevento, guest of BCTThe Film and Television Festivaldirected by the founder Antonio Frascadore, the Argentine artist talks about herself with an open heart and without filters, interviewed by Mario Manca of Vanity Fair.
“For me it is the first time in Benevento. They told me it’s the city of witches. I also feel a bit like a witch, I am very empathetic towards people. Seeing this full square excites me”he says at the start from the stage in Piazza Roma.
The TV presenter – but also singer, dancer, entrepreneur – attracts attention and talks about her beginnings, the sacrifices made upon her arrival in the Bel Paese, up to her success as a model. And then, step by step, the important goals achieved on the small screen. Like, for example, the hosting of the Sanremo Festival.
A dive into the past and into his artistic journey, yes, but without losing sight of the present and the future: ‘I took a year off from TV, but in September I’ll be back with many beautiful things. I missed the adrenaline’.
During the interview he attacks i socialdespite being an ‘addicted’, guilty according to her of having created a completely ‘fictitious’ world, and insists: ‘Comments? Today they hurt me less than in the past because I read them little. I’m sorry that verbal violence most often comes from women themselves. It’s something I don’t understand. Luckily I am surrounded by wonderful people and I still believe that the world is full of people with values.”.
And speaking of bad comments, also remember what happened to Ferragni with the pandoro affair and the resulting criticism on the Internet: ‘I don’t have a friendship with Chiara, but I was among the first to try to calm the anger on social media. We need more understanding and solidarity. It’s important to grow up in a more supportive world to give our children a beautiful future.”.
He does a small lunge to the ‘Belve’ program: ‘I refused the interview. It seems like a different show to me, original, full of spice, it keeps you glued to the screen, but if I were Fagnani I would be more kind and understanding.’
Not only professional life, but also private life in his words: ‘I am a romantic woman, in love with love. A love that is for my children, for friends, for family, for the boyfriend of the moment. Love is love, in all its forms, and it is a very strong feeling.”
In the end what emerges is a person who, despite the flash and cover life, lives the same concerns as ordinary people. ‘The future? I’m afraid of not having the same energy, the same lightness. My thoughts are always turned to my children, but also to the fear of not having a stable marriage, of growing old alone, of no longer having my parents by my side.’
Until the final gem: ‘It would be more therapeutic to talk about our fears together, to confront each other. But above all it is essential to surround yourself with real and pure people..
