It is a story, although in reality it is much more than a story for children. MarÃa Zurita has made her debut in the literary world with My mom and I are a family, a kind of autofiction about her single-parent family. The tender illustrations signed by Patricia Carcelén leave no doubt about who the protagonists are. The daughter of the Dukes of Soria herself tells her son Carlos, with the complicity of his dachshund dog Zeta, what led her to motherhood alone, the long process of in vitro fertilization to achieve it and the great variety of families that exist, all valid. Some, like hers, without a father.
It will soon be five years since that April 29 that changed her life and almost ended in tragedy due to the placental abruption she suffered and the complications suffered by her premature son. Fortunately, the story had a happy ending, like the one in the story that the King’s cousin has written and which is still an advanced birthday gift to celebrate that first hand of her son. “It’s a lifelong gift that I was really excited to have,†she reveals. But as usually happens with stories, it goes much further.
“Unfortunately, many things need to be made visible in this society, among others, the decision of many women to want to be single mothers,†she explains. She, a woman with drive (“I never say no to anything”), made this decision after deep reflection. The first to know were her father, Carlos Zurita, and her uncle, Juan Carlos, “one of the people who has helped me the most in everything and told me to go ahead.” Her cousin Felipe VI “had a big smile,” she details. “Carlos has become the darling of the family.”
Sensitized with difficult and lonely motherhood, MarÃa Zurita does not avoid the controversy over the birth of Ana Obregón’s granddaughter. “I support her, everything Ana does will seem right to me, I don’t even want to think about what it is like to lose a child and bring life to this world, it seems good to me.”
The entrepreneurial spirit of the daughter of Margarita de Borbón has led her to participate in different television programs. She currently collaborates in Now or Never and has gone through Pasapalabra, Mask Singer and MasterChef Celebrity 7, where she lived her most “hard” experience with her elimination, but which allowed her to befriend actor Xavier Deltell. “It’s wonderful, we talk on the phone every fortnight.”
Is there room in your single parent family for a couple? “Yes, but it would have to be a very good partner and it would have to compensate me a lot because I am focused on my son, my family and my work.” Proof of this was her change of address. “I decided to go live with my parents to help them in a closer way.” And then Carlos arrived. “We are happy”. Better ending for a story, impossible.
