He has walked the red carpet of the Venice festival as the image of Giorgio Armani emulating a Hollywood star. But Anna Lewandowska, wife of FC Barcelona footballer Robert Lewandowski, has nothing to do with the film industry. His has been and continues to be sport.
This Thursday, September 7, Anna will blow out 35 candles and she will do it with her husband and their two daughters, Klara and Laura, aged six and three. Currently converted into an influencer who gives training and nutrition advice, she has been an elite karate fighter in her country, Poland. Throughout her sports career, she has won around 40 medals both nationally and internationally.
The former Polish athlete is now a successful businesswoman. She has created a business empire made up of various businesses related to a healthy lifestyle that she manages herself with the help of her assistants. She is quite the personality on social networks, where she promotes an active, sports-oriented life and gives advice on nutrition to her more than five million followers.
Trained in Physical Education and Nutrition studies, she herself is in charge of organizing her family’s diet. “We eat carbs and protein separately. Also, only good foods and lactose-free. One of the most important things is that we don’t eat fried food, and we don’t eat fast food either, ”she has explained on occasion.
Of course, she also has a great influence in directing the eating habits of her husband, with whom she has celebrated ten years of marriage this summer. Among her recommendations, she includes a lot of tuna for breakfast and rice pudding the night before the game.
The family lives happily in Barcelona, ??where they settled in the summer of 2022 from Munich when the forward signed for the Blaugrana club. In an interview that she gave to Mundo Deportivo, she was very happy to live in Catalonia. “I love barcelona. In addition, there are many options to eat well, many healthy food restaurants. It is very important to eat smart and learn what works best for your stomach. Then, exceptions can always be made. Living near the sea, it is a luxury to be able to eat fresh fish and shellfish”, the Polish businesswoman valued.
Born Anna Stachurska, she adopted the female version of her husband’s surname upon marrying him. In Poland she takes into account the gender of a person when forming the surname and the feminine form of the suffix -ski is -ska. Lewandowska is a faithful follower of Barcelona and it is common to see her on the field even with the Blaugrana shirt. And although she always supports her husband, she is an independent woman. “I didn’t want to just be a footballer’s wife. I continue to work a lot, I have more than 200 people working in my companies and new projects are underway. I run most of my companies together with my partners and we do it with a lot of passion”.
Precisely, he considers that passion is responsible for half of his successes. “The other half depends on your ability to learn, listen and not give up. When I started my first company, Foods by Ann, I was very young and inexperienced, but my vision was very clear. It was a privilege to meet people who had more experience and I was able to fulfill my dream. Then I created my Diet and Training by Ann o Phlov app, my vegan cosmetics brand, ”she explains in the interview.
A very active woman, she has managed to find a balance between business and personal life. “Our family is very marked by Robert’s career. For him, being part of a club like FC Barcelona is very important, it is an achievement for which he had been working very hard for many years. He puts a lot of energy into training and my role in supporting him is very important; and that’s not always easy, especially when you have so many professional responsibilities. Over time, I have learned to find the balance between being a mother, an entrepreneur and having time for myself. We want our daughters to feel safe and to know that their parents are always going to be there for them”, he reflects.
