We have been admiring Judit Mascó for so many years that it seems like she has always been there. She started very young and has managed to stay at the top even giving up the international projection that his beauty and talent had in store for her. After visiting Paris and New York, she preferred to return home and feel supported by her loved ones. She married very young and started a large family: four daughters, now grown, who eat like limes and whom she will be able to enlighten after the advice received from chef Xavier Pellicer.
The top has sponsored the opening of the Miele Experience Center store in that quadrant of Barcelona's Diagonal that concentrates the best decoration brands, including high-end appliances. And Judit participated in the cooking show directed by the renowned chef Xavier Pellicer, considered the number one in haute vegetable cuisine. Marta Torné, Gemma Mengual, Susi Rejano, Juan Avellaneda, Ares Teixidó, Alejandra Prat and Ruth Jiménez, among other well-known faces of Barcelona society, joined the party.
Today we are brought together by a high-end brand like Miele. Tell me about your cooking side.
On a day-to-day basis, I don't usually cook because at home we are a large family, all adults, and it is very difficult to manage when I am working so much outside the home. But when I start cooking I'm very smart: I'm not one of those who picks up a recipe to follow to the letter and if I'm missing an ingredient, I stop. No no. I am very smart (laughs) and with four resources, including leftovers from the refrigerator, I can make you a good rice or a cool pasta as I make you a very healthy baked fish. Although I try not to get too complicated, I do take care of the product and I am quite decisive with aromatic herbs.
Would rice then be your main dish?
And the kitchen of use: I can prepare a good dish with leftover fish that I have frozen, or some meat, or pieces of sausage, or if not I make it with vegetables: it turns out good with what I have.
You said in a recent interview that being a model has fulfilled you, but it has not made you happy.
Yes, but I would like to qualify it: being a model is my profession and since it has fulfilled me professionally it has made me happy professionally but when I talk about happiness and authenticity, I mean that I have had to work on my other facets to be completely happy . Only with my profession, which is very competitive, hard and demanding, have I not achieved happiness. On the contrary: there was a period, especially when I was younger and perhaps I didn't know how to value it as much, that the more jobs that came my way, the more pressure I felt. That's why I have always looked for a counterpart on the personal side: lifelong friends, my family, the mountains, my spaces, my dog, reading and my hobbies. In addition, I have also looked for how to be useful in society, you already know what the ARED foundation means to me, and that is a fundamental part of the puzzle to feel complete.
I attest: I know that at the end of this event you have an important meeting that will occupy you all afternoon.
Of course, because I am the president and we have to serve the board, debate to make decisions and I am very compliant; I am there completely because I believe it, because I see the impact that good teamwork has for so many women who need it. And this makes as much or more sense than any other job in my lifelong profession.
In fact, this is one of the best proofs that this prejudice that links the fashion industry and/or its protagonists with frivolity is stupid.
The thing is that we are people and there are human qualities of many types in all professions, also in fashion. Each person chooses to face life in one way or another and in the way it makes them more complete: although at first glance they have a profession that gives them fame and success, for me success is actually tranquility, conscience, things that remain forever. This is very clear to me at this point in life.
That is, legacy and empathy.
Empathy for me is one of the most important values, if not the greatest, because through it you understand others. I always refer to empathy but in all areas, also in my profession as a model: if you put yourself in the shoes of the client who hired you when he opens a store, someone who with all his effort calls on me to give my best For me, everything I will do will be born from empathy. And then everything works fine.
You have just recorded a program for Maestros de la Costura (TVE). How has it been?
It has been a wonder because above all, and I elaborate on what we are talking about, meeting my lifelong companions is a joy... So much so that I think not many people can say the same.
What are you talking about?
One of the prejudices that models weigh on the world is that there is envy, rivalries, etc. and that is not the case. That's not my experience. When we meet there is a huge good vibe: we laugh, we enjoy, we tell each other stories in front of or behind the cameras... And that is an enjoyment of life and a gratitude to life: to coincide after so much time, with everything we have experienced, and we are here healthy and wonderful to be able to tell it. It's been super cool.
We see you in the afternoons of TV3 with Tot es mou but your fans from Cáceres or Santander will not see you in TardeAR (Telecinco).
(Laughs) Well, I never signed the contract with TardeAR; I opted for Jordi González (with La Plaza, on TVE) because I have many collaborations with TVE, such as the program Now or never by Mónica López and my markets section. And I had a great time. Again from empathy, understanding people who dedicate their lives to a job as beautiful as selling the food we take home. The people in the markets are so authentic... Maybe I am also at a moment where I know how to appreciate the good things that my work is giving me and this collaboration is very attractive because it is something very different from what I have done for so many years. The pity is that the program will not continue, you know how hard television is in terms of share.
You decided to stop working in New York, Paris and Milan because you missed your loved ones. Having chosen to meet people who have been running a stop for years, sometimes generations, is a sign of consistency.
Luckily I can choose and I have chosen the path that I feel most compatible with. I really do all the clients and jobs I do with great pleasure and that's why they turn out well. This is my premise at this point in my life and career.
