Have you ever come across a mannequin? Almost human. Splendid, resilient looking, furiously contemporary. Institutional height Nori Kriegshaber. Is she spelled like that? "Let's see... yes, yes." In addition to everything, a low profile model with kilometers of catwalk that opens her mouth and sings you four fresh. The life of the famous, sometimes, is much less interesting than that of the unknown.

-You're gorgeous.

-Oh, thanks, but beauty is subjective...

-Also when you talk about models?

-Everything enters through the eyes. If you don't start out liking them, how do they get to know you? Nobody is going to want to know my interior if they are not first attracted from another place.

A fairytale

-Great truth...

-In my case I even take it as a fairy tale. I lost my entire family at age 15 in an accident. All died. Everyone. I was almost dead too.

-Uhhh, I'm deeply sorry, but what does that have to do with your activity?

-They told me that I was not going to walk again and look: here you have me at 47 years old being part of the beautiful staff of Roberto Piazza, whom I love. At my age I might not be parading, I'm not 20 years old. I know my body is better than many women my age, but I know I could be even better.

-You introduce yourself as a “mannequin”. Would it be wrong to consider you "object woman"?

I am not in the head of others. That speaks of them not of me. I consider myself an exemplary woman, a respectable, admirable, lovable, noble, loyal, good, brave, strong woman. Object of admiration in any case.

Many people drown in a glass of water and have it all. I lost everything, but I never lost myself. I respect myself. I value myself. I know the inner strength that I have that many others, if they were in my shoes, could not tolerate. This activity saved me.

social example

-Let's think about seeking to be a model, paradigm or social example in a consumer society...

-At some point I realized, I don't know how to say it, that she wasn't one of the crowd, that she had certain qualities to be able to be a model. I made up my mind when it was about the accident I told you about...

-You look…

It was what my parents didn't let me do. It was a way for them to see me, love me, to show me. And yes, I worked and work to look pretty. Look Angelina Jolie, beautiful, but even she had to fight with anorexia and eating problems.

-Recurring theme between models.

-I see a lot of defects, but the only thing that I have operated on are the lolas. Afterwards, I am as I am, although of course I do gymnastics and maintain a healthy life.

-Only lolas?

-I did not get wrinkles or in the photos. My arms are a little softer. I have a little cellulite, I don't use hair extensions, I don't have botox, the teeth are authentic... I still had problems with food and I just solved them, look at it, with therapy and three years ago. It is a cross that I removed from my shoulders.

My daughter, who is a teenager, also struggles with this issue. She is beautiful, but she inherited her mother's insecurity. She once told me: “It hurt me to see you so many times dissatisfied with yourself. I don't know why you do that to yourself." She shocked me.

-When did you perceive that you could live from your beauty?

-I was a girl, she saw me tall and played parade against the mirror. She fifteen years she had her. She looked at me in the mirror, put on an attitude, and she looked prettier. After the accident I was left without pillars and I decided to work on loving myself, on seeing myself pretty. I had to love myself. I didn't have a mom who told me: “you're beautiful”. There was none of that around me. Being a model was validating me.

-Is there a difference between a model and a mannequin?

-We both model, but sometimes they tell you: "she's a model" and you say: Playboy model. I am a tool used by designers. The mannequin is the one that sells you the dress. The one that can be put on a rag and will make women see it cute and want to buy it. It shows the design, it does not show itself. We parade haute couture and we have a characteristic: we measure more than 1.70.

-I read that China Suárez does not need to be a good person. That being this cute is enough.

-But China is gorgeous! The same, perhaps because of the characteristics of my work, I value the inner beauty of the other. Beautiful bad not garpa. I hate being pretty.

Although they saw me that way and let me go to the clubs without paying, a lot of times they communicate saying that it is for work, they create in me a false job expectation, I go to the meeting and it turns out that it is all an attempt to treat to go out with me or get up...

-Would you recommend being a model?

-A job as worthy as any other. When I started parading, in the early 90s, we were all skinny. There were more demands. Now there are brands that promote themselves with girls who have a few extra pounds. Little by little I think that the criteria of beauty will change. I am convinced of that.

I remember that Ethel Rojo, at her school, told me that for a parade she had to lose five kilos. I had to starve myself. That affected me so much on an emotional level, that from then on I always had an issue with the issue of weight.

-Taking into account the gender struggles, the models -what they call "hegemonic beauty"- are not the "public enemy" number one?

I don't live like that. The Piazza staff that I integrate is a staff that includes. I parade with Mariana A, who is a trans girl. As a 47-year-old woman, they keep choosing me. I have 60-year-old companions, 30-year-old girls, dark-skinned, white-skinned...

But that's political correctness...

-Let's admit that liking is part of life. Let's say things as they are: someone else likes you and you have a partner. From the unconscious we all want to be liked. Taste serves to maintain the species.

-Speaking of Patriarchy is not also talking about Fashion?

-Tell me how to change something that comes from so far back. Even the Egyptians had their own fashion. The key, and I know what I'm talking about, is learning to love each other and stop comparing ourselves. The fashion is. Spot. The models are. But all bodies are different. With so much diversity, it would be good if the different types of beauty really became fashionable.

-Do you feel used?

-I don't feel like a hanger. I choose. We are all objects, or is not the employee used by his employer? I tell you more: why do all teenage girls want to be models? Why do guys love dating a model? We all want to be cute, let's say it once and for all...

-When is a mannequin removed?

-The industry takes you away.

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