Oral-B has launched the ‘Let’s reconsider to reconsider’ campaign, as innovative as it is necessary, as it is aimed at inclusive oral care, that is, focused on people with disabilities and their caregivers. And about this, she has experience for almost 16 years, which her son Kike will turn in January: he was born with cerebral palsy and it was the tenacity of her parents, Fabiola and Bertín Osborne, that has helped him get out of it. forward. In fact, far from collapsing, they created a foundation to help other families in the same or similar situation. “Since he was little he is very used to having his mouth touched. In fact, when she still didn’t have teeth, she already cleaned her gums with gauze. I have always tried to do things with the objective of also stimulating. Today sometimes I have to struggle a little to get him to open his mouth, so I make gestures, I open it, he imitates me and we look like a comic duo: ‘yes, yes, I’ll open it now’, you sometimes tell me to hesitate.”
Fabiola continues to lead the Bertín Osborne Foundation: her separation from the presenter and singer has not affected this important aspect of her daily life. Today, a mother in a situation similar to hers is the president and occupies her former position as director in an institution that helps, accompanies and offers resources to families who have children with special needs: “These are not cases in which magical therapy It will solve everything, but support is very important, knowing that you are not alone. Recently, in an art therapy workshop we experienced a beautiful moment: a girl who was not expressing herself was barely doing therapy with her family and while playing with materials, her little sister had the idea of ????tearing papers and throwing them like confetti on the girl, who was lying on the floor. surrounded by them. And suddenly that girl, who until then had not shown any expression, began to laugh out loud. The entire room cried with emotion. We parents are very grateful for those moments,” recalls Fabiola.
Now that many weeks have passed since the television season restarted, you can speak freely. Why didn’t you continue with Sonsoles Onega?
I had to renew my contract in the summer. And well, I just got a project that I really wanted to embark on. I weighed it a lot, I thought about combining both things, but I realized that the new season was going to be hard on television, it would require much more involvement and I didn’t see myself having enough time to attend to both things. I do not close the door to continue collaborating in the future.
But are you still going ahead with that mysterious project and if so, can you tell me anything?
Yes, it’s serious but I can’t explain it yet. The time will come.
Will it be public, will we see you?
Yes, although it is not related to television.
“This is hypocrisy, you really don’t care how I am,” you told some reporters a few weeks ago.
I have not been angry with the press at any time. It is true that you are often interested in taking things out of context, I mean giving another added value, things that you assume, but I have never had any real confrontation with the press. The comment was directed at a specific reporter; In fact, I looked at her to tell her and then a headline appeared as if I had said it in general about the media. It had to do with the fact that many times obviously false, fictitious attitudes are adopted to want to empathize and ask questions when I don’t know her at all, she can’t put herself in my place, nor can I in hers. At that moment I told him: ‘Look, I prefer to go straight. If you want to ask me a complicated question, ask it to me, have the courage to ask it to my face. But don’t sneak up behind us, we’re not children.’ I felt almost offended, I don’t know if she thought I was stupid and didn’t realize what she was trying to do. I have always told you that I am going ahead and demand the same from the media.
Fabiola and love: don’t tell me that your phone isn’t full of calls to invite you to dinner. And even less after the video you uploaded to Tik Tok.
Well, you would be surprised if not. Well, not even after the video (laughs). Let’s see, on social networks they write to you, they ask you, they ask you out… But do you know how many geeks there are in the world? (laughs) It scares me, even. I am about knowing people, about feeling. But first of all, I don’t need to be accompanied just because; I am very good with myself and then well… I don’t know, if someone makes me feel comfortable, I am and if not, then no and that’s it. But I’m not looking, I think that’s the bottom line.
To put a filter on geeks, tell me what you value in someone to accept a date and, above all, accept a second date.
There is nothing specific. For an appointment I have to know the person in advance, who is from my environment because they have been introduced to me and I have seen them several times; This is how you see things that you like, if you feel that you are interested in getting to know him more and so on. I am traditional in that.
You started studying Medicine, a career you left for fashion. Do you regret it?
I would have loved to finish my degree, of course, because I love the entire scientific and medical world. In fact, I read the medication leaflets, I am signed up for the Vademecum, I read scientific publications… But I also believe that thanks to that change of direction I am who I am now and I have no regrets: my children, the life I have had, the I am lucky in many things. No.
Is there anything major you regret?
There is always something, like having accidentally hurt someone. We must leave space for that reflection and propose to do things better. Surely if I take a trip to the past I will find things. But hey, I focus on trying to make them better every day. And since what has been done can no longer be changed, I learn from mistakes.
But haven’t you become distrustful?
No not at all. I believe that people must be given opportunities and not prejudge. It’s difficult but that only comes from knowing yourself, knowing where you want to go and what you want in your life and having the security of letting the person around you be who they are. You can’t force someone to be what you want to fit into your life.
You speak like Lao Tzu.
(Laughs) This is life learning. I have internalized everything I say so much, I apply it so much in my daily life, really. In the end wisdom is a degree. The thing is, I turn 51 in a month, on December 28th.
The date puts it on a plate for me. Do you still consider yourself an innocent woman?
I want to think so, right? To maintain that thing of learning and enjoying things a little but… It’s getting very difficult for me, I don’t think I have much innocence left (laughs).
