He left the art gallery business and spends more time managing his real estate company and taking care of his daughters. She will also attend presentations such as the new clinic of the Laser Medical Institute of Madrid, a state-of-the-art space of more than 125m 2 in the heart of Chueca and the group’s third center in the capital. Carla Pereyra, who was a model before being a businesswoman, met Diego ‘Cholo’ Simeone, coach of Atlético de Madrid, ten years ago, and assures that her husband came into her life to improve it. She feels more fulfilled and empowered thanks to values ??that she has learned from him, convinced that the process goes in both directions.
You open this clinic specialized in cutting-edge beauty treatments. How do you take care of yourself?
To prevent it, you have to take care of yourself from a young age, especially taking care of your skin. I like natural, beautiful skin and I like to take care of myself because it shows that one is well. I am in a beautiful moment in my life, I think it is reflected; You reach an age where there is a balance in looking good, respecting yourself and that comes through self-knowledge. I don’t want to look like a 25-year-old or a 40-year-old because I don’t have them yet. Self-care comes from within. Stress plays against us but there is always the helping hand of doctors and experts to delay a little or maintain that good and healthy appearance.
At the Laser Medical Institute we find facial treatments such as Detox Facial Hygiene, Skin Radiance, Chemical Peeling, Hydrafacial, Intense Pulsed Light, radio frequency, facial masculinization or lip hydration… What is your beauty routine before going to a center like this ?
Well, the truth is that it is very basic: a toner, a moisturizer, a serum and consistency. I have been taking care of myself and doing sports for 10 or 12 years and that has led to a change in my physique, my hair, my relationship with myself, the security that feeling good gives you. I think women have to work on that. And, obviously, I rely on new technologies that are there to help us feel better and safer but maintaining balance, that is not invasive and that does not change our essence.
There are teenagers who already start treating their skin at a very young age, around 13 years old. What do you think?
That doesn’t happen in my house, I try to make girls aware that although it is nice to play with makeup and see mom, obviously they are not products designed for such young skin. Today, consumerism and social networks and so on lead us to demand more from ourselves with filters, while the work of accepting ourselves and understanding that the path of self-care and well-being begins from within, I think is much more important. That is a message that mothers have to give. Something should be done to regulate all the information that reaches such young children from the networks.
How would you say you are as a mother?
A mother in learning phases; No one is born knowing but I do find that when there is a tantrum they bring out a very good part of me. I don’t allow myself to yell at my daughters. I try to educate them like adults; I am very aware that the example I give you is basic. If I yell at them, they are going to go out and yell at their classmates and hit someone. I try to explain a lot to them the reasons for the situations: why dad travels a lot, why he didn’t let you go to your friend’s house, why we prioritize being with family… Dialogue is essential. I don’t treat them like little girls who don’t understand, on the contrary, I think children are super smart, so I explain everything to them so that they can participate in the decision that mom makes because there is a reason behind it.
Has Diego influenced you in terms of practicing sports?
Of course, I always say it and it seems natural to me. My husband came into my life and improved me in everything. But I think that’s what healthy couples and good love are also about, helping you to be a better person, helping you take care of yourself, respect yourself, and I think that in that we are very companions. But I did obviously start doing more sports since I’ve been with him. The people around you totally influence your life. If you meet healthy people, with healthy habits, then you are going to be infected a little more. If you meet people who go out every night, you’re going to stick with that. So I believe that caring begins by choosing the right person, but both in friendships and as a life partner, as well as in the people that you let influence your day to day life. Start a little there. Obviously I found myself with an athletic person who takes care of himself, a man who is 50 but who is very well planted in his 50s, so that in the end
You’ve been with him for ten years. Is there a secret to stability?
Love, respect for others is essential, respecting their times, their tastes, understanding each other and communication on a daily basis is key: for him to ask me how you are, how the presentation is going, it is nice that the other person is waiting. We take great care of ourselves as a couple, take our time, go for a walk… We are parents and two people who work a lot, who have a schedule that is sometimes a little intense. But once a week we go out to dinner alone, to the movies… that little moment to be together.
And do you also use creams?
Take care; Since he helped me in sports, I am guiding him a little with personal care. Nowadays it is something supernatural, before it was a little more taboo, but today all men take care of themselves, they like to look good and I think it is also something that goes with everyday security. Feeling good about yourself is part of personal and professional success. There is an equality in that sense that makes us feel good.
Is your husband as hot at home as he is in the field?
I am more like that (laughs). We both rule equally, eh? but at home he is much calmer, in the field he leaves all his energy and then at home he is very thoughtful, very calm. I always say it: he is not what you see there, but super balanced, a very easy person to live with; Everyone who knows him can say it. He’s a good guy and when people are good, coexistence is easy.
Today you open this clinic but you have been a model and art gallery owner. What are you currently doing?
I have a renovation and student housing company, a very large project that keeps me very busy and in addition, three buildings under construction plus the other development that we are starting. In parallel, there are always things coming out with fashion, presentations that amuse me a lot because having me as a reference is nice, a source of pride. Thus, in my daily life I go to visit apartments and works as well as to inaugurations and presentations. The game is in versatility and overcoming yourself through new challenges. I’m 37 years old, I have a lot of ideas and projects, I’m on the boil all the time and I love being able to develop them. I am at a point in my life where I feel safe, I have a team I trust, which for me is key too.
Do you feel considered a woman of, do you ever say the woman of?
It’s nice to be the woman because I feel it with love. But it is also true that we always need to give people a title: you go to a place and they say if you are the wife of or went out with such and such… Well, but the thing is that I have evolved, changed, improved, I have prepared myself and then When you read that you are only the ex or the ‘current’ you are reducing me, you are limiting me to being just that. And I think I am a lot of other things: mother, wife, businesswoman… But I don’t need a word to define me because I am Carla. This is what we must instill in the new generations, not giving a title to a person because in the end you limit them. Today we no longer need to pigeonhole a woman or a person under a title of she is such, or she is the woman of, or she is such. When I see something like that, I think “I am a lot of other things” and I don’t have to go out and tell or explain them. It is the evolution of the person, you start doing one thing and in your life there come moments where you decide to change and you do not need to give a title to such a thing. You have to get out of the stereotype because that does not define you, you are who you are, there is no title for a person.
