La comunicadora decidió tener su primer hijo tras siete años de matrimonio con el crítico de cine Leopoldo Muñoz.
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00:00We got married and spent seven years on the road.
00:04We took advantage of the opportunity to travel, to have a good time, to drive, to burn all the stages, you know?
00:10And the time came when we said, now is the time to have children.
00:14And there we realized that it was not going to be easy for us to have children,
00:17so we had to start a whole subject of treatment, study and all the story.
00:21Ah, you had to...
00:22Yes, with Juli it was the third assistant.
00:24How was that process?
00:27It was not as hard as Polito's, which was in vitro,
00:29which was with a lot of hormones and a tremendous physical emotional wear and tear.
00:33Juli's was more like the illusion, like not realizing what was going on, the anguish.
00:37And it was just the third, then the third was defeated, ha ha ha, pregnant, happy with life.
00:41And before telling my family, because the doctor had told us that we had to wait three months
00:45because it was a treatment, anyway.
00:48And we went to Cuba.
00:50The first time we went to Cuba, Fidel was alive, imagine.
00:55We arrived in Cuba and I really did not have anything of a baby.
00:59First baby, three months.
01:01And a Cuban who sold Coca-Cola tells me, you are pregnant.
01:05And I say, yes, why?
01:07No, you are pregnant, but you know that here in Cuba we have the exam to determine
01:11if your baby comes with 1-1 syndrome.
01:15And I was like, I did not know what to answer.
01:18But how happy, nothing tells you that?
01:20Nothing.
01:21I say, ah, I congratulate you.
01:24And you are like, and me what?
01:26I congratulate you, how nice that you are so advanced.
01:29Well, short story, the next day we went back to Chile.
01:32We arrived in Chile, there was the boom of H1N1.
01:35I had become intoxicated in an event and my doctor thought it could be H1N1
01:41because I was coming from a trip.
01:43And he does an ultrasound, we were in full ultrasound
01:45and that silence occurs that you really never wanted to hear when you are in a ...
01:50I mean, you don't want to see or live when you are in a medical appointment.
01:53So the doctor stays quiet, continues, continues, continues and says to me, get dressed.
01:57We went to the office and he says to me, from my experience, this baby comes with a trisomy
02:03because it has a translucent nucleus that accumulates the liquid here in the neck,
02:07the tabique, the nose.
02:10He told me, it does not convince me 100%, I need you to have a more elaborate ultrasound,
02:19and now this 3D, 4D, I don't remember, urgent.
02:23Because this baby can come with a trisomy.
02:25It can be Down syndrome or it can be another trisomy.
02:27It was like a bucket of cold water because I was 32 years old, 31 years old,
02:31I mean, I was not within the parameter,
02:33we had never been put on the stage of Down syndrome or a trisomy or anything.
02:38I mean, it was like, I'm going to get you an hour with such a doctor.
02:42And that day I went to that doctor again,
02:45and he, I was alone, and he does the CT scan.
02:48And he says to me, yes, this baby has a trisomy, pray for it to be Down,
02:53and he has it changed.
02:57And I left that appointment in Providencia, in the panoramic,
03:00crying, not understanding anything, alone,
03:05saying, but how, if I'm not within the parameters,
03:08how do I pray for it to be Down, because otherwise the baby is going to die.
03:12I mean, fuck, no, no, no, like knocking.
03:17You get it? When I was boxing, when I was knocked, it was like,
03:20no, no, like I was going to one side of life,
03:22and suddenly they hit me with a combo and I didn't understand anything, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
03:27And then my sister Carola, obviously, says to me,
03:30no, don't worry, I'm going to get you with the best echograph,
03:34and then I got to an amazing brother, who is Carlos de la Jara,
03:3812 powder, and who helped me, who supported me,
03:43who finally told me, let's do the exam to see if it's Down syndrome or not,
03:47they confirm the diagnosis, Down syndrome.
03:50And there it was like, I would tell you, four days, that I cried it all out.
03:56I was going to the fight, I woke up in the morning like this,
03:59with a face like this, drunk, and I was going to the fight,
04:02I was going to the program as if nothing happened,
04:05I came back home and I cried it all out.
04:07And on the fourth day I said, you know what I'm doing?
04:09It's my baby, she feels everything, I'm wasting time,
04:14I have to see what I have to do for this daughter or son,
04:19because I didn't know yet, to be as happy as possible,
04:22I dried my tears and I said, bye.
04:24We had a family tradition that every Thursday we had lunch,
04:27my father and the brothers, only my father and the brothers.
04:29And my father called everyone, he told them that we had an extraordinary meeting,
04:34Thursday, and only Polo was invited.
04:37And my father, who was a candy, who was a joke,
04:39for the first time I hit the table and said,
04:41this is a serious matter, focus.
04:43Everyone was silent, what happened, what happened,
04:44I'm waiting downstairs and everyone, wow, bring out the champagne.
04:46But that's not all, they all have Down syndrome.
04:50And their reaction was so powerful,
04:55I remember my brother Pancho told me,
04:58no, but the word told me, I don't understand what the point is,
05:03what I wanted to do, where am I putting the accent?
05:07No, it comes with…
05:08It was like, José Luis, like, hey, all my daughters have companions,
05:12I mean, what is it, you know?
05:15I'm pregnant, bring out the champagne, let's celebrate.
05:19And it was like, you know, I'm just looking at you, you know?
05:22An epic, gigantic support.
05:24I mean, I'm just giving juice, I dry my tears,
05:28and today I start to think and investigate
05:32and see how I can make my daughter as happy as possible,
05:37as independent as possible, and the best person possible.
05:40And that's it.
05:41And then another Julia started, another pregnancy,
05:43another completely different process.
05:46How was the conversation with the father, with Polo?
05:51I think we were both in the same situation,
05:54when we started to realize that we didn't have time to lose, to cry.
05:58I mean, I never asked myself why me, and why not me, you know?
06:02I mean, we never had time to victimize.
06:05On the contrary, it was like, we can't lose a minute
06:08and we have to do everything possible
06:10for Julia to be the most independent, the happiest.
06:12So it was like…
06:13And did you verbalize it to everyone,
06:15did you tell everyone that this was the situation,
06:17or did you stay quiet about it?
06:19No, I told everyone that I was pregnant,
06:21to my closest circle, of course, everyone knew,
06:24plus I was working on a TV show, so the situation was kind of heavy.
06:27And no, I didn't tell anyone.
06:29I didn't tell anyone, and in fact, when Julia was born,
06:32I remember that I gave an interview to La Revista Cara,
06:35and in that interview, La Revista Cara,
06:37they were just talking nonsense.
06:39But like, no, maternity, blah, blah, blah.
06:42And I got to my dad's house, you know?
06:45And my dad said, how did the interview go?
06:47Nothing, nothing.
06:48And you didn't tell them that Julia had Down syndrome?
06:50And I was like, no, because of the family power,
06:52the intimacy, blah, blah, blah.
06:53And he said, it's not because of you,
06:55it's because of other families that might be going through the same thing.
06:58I mean, why would I think about you?
07:00And I was like, oh, right.
07:04I called the journalist, Sole, and I said,
07:06Sole, do you remember the interview I gave you?
07:08Yes.
07:09And I said, throw it away,
07:10because now I'm going to give you another interview that has nothing to do with it.
07:12And then I told them that my daughter had Down syndrome
07:14and that she was prouder than, I don't know what about her
07:17and what the process had been and everything.
07:20Because, of course, my son told me,
07:22I mean, because everything has to revolve around you and your motherhood.
07:26I mean, there are other families that may be just finding out
07:28that their baby is having Down syndrome
07:30and you have a contention that is incredible, you know?
07:33And it's not the end of the world, quite the opposite.
07:35I mean, it was like all the reason.
07:37Nothing, the world doesn't revolve around me, all the reason.
07:39And if it's useful to someone, and yes, it's useful.
07:42Since that time, many times they call me
07:45and I accompany mothers who find out about the birth
07:48or later, they come to my house, they meet Julia,
07:51everything that is possible to give them a glimpse of what my experience has been like.
07:55It's not a guide.
07:56How is your daughter?
07:57Julia?
07:58She's the best.
08:00Julia is a warrior.
08:01I love Julia.
08:03She's my pride.
08:05No, I cry with Julia.
08:06I mean, she's really an old soul.
08:08Julia, if I thought that life was...
08:11one thing,
08:13Julia taught me that life has nothing to do with what I thought.
08:17That the questions that are important have nothing to do with a house, nothing.
08:25No, nothing.
08:27It was like...
08:28That was my north and it was like suddenly...
08:31I mean, all the reason.
08:32My north was there.
08:33It's the best thing that's ever happened to me in life.
08:36It's far away.
08:37The best thing that's ever happened to me with Polito is life.
08:39Kevin.
08:40That's right.
08:41She's a constant learner.
08:44I feel that more than what I've taught her,
08:46it's what she's taught me, you know?
08:48I mean, thank you.
08:49She always teaches me.
08:50She teaches me every day.