In a revealing interview full of sincerity, Risto Mejide immersed himself in the life of the talented singer María Lucía Sánchez Benítez, better known as Malú, in the last episode of 'Traveling with Chester' of this season. The conversation between the two explored intimate aspects of Malú's life.
The artist shared her reflections on the arrival of her daughter Lucía and its impact on a relationship with former politician Albert Rivera. With forceful statements, Malú addressed the multiplicity of experiences that motherhood brings with it and how it can strengthen or separate couples depending on the harmony between them.
“I have always been one to learn the hard way,” Malú revealed as soon as he sat down at Chester. After reviewing her beginnings, Malú reached the birth of her daughter, Lucía. “I stopped being ‘the good girl’ to become her mother.”
Despite the intensity of her maternal feeling, Malú missed music: “I missed the stage,” she confessed. “I have invested three years of parenting. I loved it, even though it was exhausting. I looked at myself in the mirror again three years later. “My body asked me to go out and enjoy,” added the artist. She said that being her mother had made her a better singer, since “everything didn't matter to her.” “I needed a miniature human being to appear to downplay everything else,” she contributed sincerely.
Malú assured Risto Mejide that her daughter is a priority over any work activity: “Anything that is not 100% with my daughter, I don't care. It is the priority in my life.” The artist declared that her three-year-old Lucía is above her work: “I change my schedule to go to my daughter's concerts at school.” Also, as an anecdote, Malú commented that this Christmas she will go to her daughter's school to sing Christmas carols.
Malú recalled what the day of her daughter Lucía's birth was like: “I had a natural birth, which lasted 12 hours. The girl gave a lot of scares because she was stuck. They took me into the operating room to do a cesarean section, but in the end it was natural. It was hard, exhausting. “The veins burst in my face, in my body.” She also regretted not being able to count on the presence of her mother as she was under the coronavirus pandemic protocol: “I missed her a lot.”
“Very little is said about the mental health of the recently given birth woman,” she alluded from her own experience. “I loved my baby, I loved her, but there was a disconnection between my body, my baby and myself. It was difficult,” she admitted, overwhelmed. “We have the image that we gave birth and we are great, doing sit-ups. I came out of childbirth horribly,” she concluded, amused.
