Can you imagine a cuter Christmas scene than this one? “As a little girl, I lived Christmas with such enthusiasm that I would take all the empty boxes around the house, including those containing cereals or milk bricks, I would pack it all up and put it under the tree to make it look like there were more gifts. And I also do crafts to decorate the tree. And well, I continue with that spirit; When you have children it even gets bigger,” says model Malena Costa.
He will spend Christmas Eve at his in-laws' house, Mario Suárez's parents, and Christmas at the couple's to welcome the family arriving from Mallorca. “For dinner we put a good snack table with cheeses, sausages, some seafood… Let the table be full of things. And then we usually make a main dish that my mother-in-law, my mother or my sister helps me with; This year my mother-in-law will prepare cheeks with rice, raisins and pine nuts on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day, we are going to eat Madrid stew, which drives me crazy and the whole family does too.”
It will be time to display the decoration of your home, worthy of filming a classic in it: “I love having this excuse to make everything even prettier and happier. Not only the house but preparing the table, decorating it, ensuring that every detail is not missed... I do it with all my love and I love being able to do it for our guests. And well, my children also help me.” Malena and Mario are parents of Matilda and Mario Jr.
Although he maintains the tradition of wearing red underwear, everything changes for New Year's Eve: since COVID arrived, dinner became lunch: “We meet with friends around two or two thirty and we extend it until dinner, with snacks until grapes and then a few drinks dancing and enjoying to start the new year with a bang!” The change of year is not a formality for Malena Costa: “Throughout the year in my phone notes I write down my resolutions for the following year. On the 31st I reread them and on the 1st I reread them again.” An exercise in creative visualization that works very well for him: not only does he continue working in fashion and advertising – he celebrates being able to sign one-year contracts with different brands – but his book Don't eat less, eat better has published its second edition.
