On February 22, the Barcelona Court sentenced former footballer Dani Alves to a sentence of 4 years and six months in prison for a crime of sexual assault committed in December 2022. His statement did not seem to have played in his favor. woman, the model Joana Sanz, who has remained by his side throughout this process, despite having requested a divorce shortly after his entry into prison.
The situation of Dani Alves and Joana Sanz is, to say the least, complicated. More so if you take into account the personal setbacks that the model has had to face in all this time. Not only is it the media harassment and public scrutiny derived from her husband’s criminal situation – of which she is the involuntary protagonist – but she also had to face the loss of her mother, to whom she was very close, to caused by cancer just a few days before Alves’ arrest.
As if that were not enough, the model herself revealed something that has gone completely unnoticed: she was expecting a child months before her mother’s deterioration. This was revealed by Joana Sanz herself in the defunct TikTok account – which she deleted before her statement at the Barcelona Court – and also on her Instagram.
A video that apparently served as a tribute to his mother for Christmas, a time when he especially missed her. However, both her message and her images gave more information than she might seem.
“I think what hurts me most about this day is that I’m not going to share it with you again,” the model began explaining, reflecting on Christmas Day. “There were so many memories left to make that I get frustrated. Sometimes the family reunion moment “stuck” to us without thinking about how lucky we are to have those moments. That life passes us by fleetingly and we hardly stop to enjoy ours “.
The Canary Islander reflects on those family moments, lamenting that for many people “everything is an “I must” or a “I have” instead of a “I want.” However, at the end of her reflection, she also makes a small revelation: “I I miss mom, forgive me for not being able to go to Disney with a little person to dress up as. I will find my way again, everything passes.”
Her words are accompanied by a revealing video in which mother and daughter can be seen having what appears to be a family meal at a pizzeria. At the moment of the video, the canary offers her mother a round pink box, where a gift is hidden: wrapped between blue and pink papers, you can see a pacifier and other Mickey Mouse accessories, which excites her mother to tears.
You can’t hear what they say because the video contains music, but you can see the model showing her mother a pregnancy test, presumably positive, given the scene and her mother’s emotion.
The images would thus confirm that the Canarian model would have been expecting a child with Dani Alves before he was arrested more than a year ago. Joana Sanz does not comment on the matter and nothing has been heard about the subject again, but time confirms that the model lost her baby at some point in the following months.
Since then, the model has been seen dealing with her personal situation in the way she can. Although her decisions have been criticized a lot, the Canarian woman has always been very clear that she was not going to “leave” her husband at a time when she needed her most. To that, together with the mourning for the loss of her mother in January, is also added the loss of her first child. Now the words she said a few months ago are understood a little better, when she asked online for “a little empathy” after losing “the only two pillars of my life.”
