The elected president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, is married to the model and influencer Lavinia Valbonesi, 25, who is pregnant with their second child together; The first is called Álvaro, like his grandfather. The 35-year-old president-elect has another daughter, Daniela, from his first marriage. Lavinia announced her pregnancy after her husband's passage to the second round in the August 20 elections was confirmed.
A nutritionist raised in the Galapagos Islands, Valbonesi has been key in the victory of her husband, whom she met when she was 21 years old. Two years later they married.
Before being a candidate for first lady, Lavinia was already well known as an influencer in Ecuador, especially among the youngest, due to the number of followers she accumulated on Instagram and TikTok with dietary advice, for which Noboa contacted her. She has a store and a healthy food restaurant in an exclusive area of Guayaquil.
Her stylist has explained in interviews that the look she recommends to Lavinia is inspired by Lady Di, Kate Middleton and Carla Bruni. On Sunday she went to vote dressed in white and with a bulletproof vest of the same color.
Valbonesi accompanied her husband throughout the campaign and has played a prominent role on social networks, offering interviews where she has defended her husband's vocation for public service, which is questioned for belonging to one of the richest and most powerful families in Ecuador. .
"People think that the Noboas seek to reach a political position to get richer, but it is quite the opposite because precisely when one reaches this political position it is to serve, to serve the people," Lavinia said during the campaign in an interview. to Radio Forever.
