The story of Alberto Cormillot’s wife: family biases, a lapidary phrase from his mother and the treatment of her to conceive

Shall we not get married?
I don’t know, we never talked.
-Well, Estefania, you set a date and we will get married.

That’s the talk Alberto Cormillot and his current wife, Estefanía Pasquini, had two months before marriage. When the news broke, everyone was shocked by the age difference, ever since he is 81 years old and he is 33 years old.

They met at work. Although before, Estefania studied nutrition at ISalud school, where Alberto Cormillot is a professor and career director. “I know him from there, but I was a girl, we never talked or anything -said Pasquini- when I graduated, I know I want to work in his clinic; I went around different places with internships and I found that working in the clinic was what I wanted most to learn and train myself. “

-And how did you start working with him?

-I took a while to send my resume, but they didn’t call me, they put a lot of hurdles and then I started going to the clinic with a surgeon to see the bariatric surgery part. Until one day I reached out to Alberto Cormillot and told him I wanted to show him my resume, because I wanted to work at the clinic and he was sending me for an interview. I took it and went into the clinic. I’ve been there for 10 years, but I’ve been in for a long time.

-They are very different in age, almost 50 years, what is the reason why you fell in love with him?
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ang-I have been alone for a long time, I have lived alone, I go out often, I have no interest in being a girlfriend, or as a couple, I love to travel, I travel often. Being married and having a family are things that never crossed my mind even by chance. Honestly, when I met him, I hadn’t had a boyfriend in years, but I hooked up with him. She is super loving and funny. He is more down to earth than anyone my age I have ever met. And it made me feel safe, because nowadays everything seems disposable, nobody gets hooked, you say something that involves you sentimentally and they run away. To him I knew I could give everything and he would not forsake me. Many things pushed me to choose it.

-When did you realize that the relationship was heading towards something serious?

-I find it hard to accept. I remember I told my friends about it and they told me: “You just have to realize it, you can tell how you talked to him.” And my first thought was that if all bad ends, I would have to leave the clinic. I have never been with an employer or colleague.

-How did your family react when you told them?

-My parents were very mean at first because they had a more traditional idea of ​​family, a couple of the same age. They even had the prejudice that if someone was with someone older it was because they had “little interest”. So my mother said to me: “If you have everything, you need nothing, why are you with him?” and I explained to him that I chose him because I loved him. A year later they agreed to meet with him, because they had always wanted to know anything and since then everything started to change.

-How was the first time Alberto Cormillot and your family met?

-My mother was very acidic and told her things without a filter: “Didn’t you think she would be left without you when she was young? Who removes that disease in my child? He told him very strong things, I couldn’t believe it. But I feel, that was his way of clearing all his doubts at once, then he met him and realized what he was. Today they love him dearly and are very happy with our son, his grandson Emilio. I now blame my mother and I tell her that it all started because of her, who convinced me to study nutrition at Alberto’s faculty.

-Why did you choose to study nutrition?

-At school I had guidance in economics, my elder helped me because I was zero in numbers. So when I told him I wanted to study accounting, my father told me: “Study someone else, I can’t afford to spend the whole faculty accompanying you, I chose something you like. ” I took a vocational orientation test and was recommended to study medicine or nutrition. I read the programs and I liked it. When I had to choose faculty, my mother suggested Isalud because I was sure there was a better job opportunity because Alberto Cormillot was the program director.

How was the idea of ​​marriage formed?

-We planned a trip to Las Vegas and thought of getting married there, but as a symbolic thing. Until one day at a dinner with friends, Alberto said that “the Las Vegas thing was a rehearsal for our return”, and I understood nothing. Our friends started asking if we were really going to get married and I said no and Alberto was yes, they didn’t know who to believe. When we were alone, Alberto asked me: “Aren’t we getting married?” and I replied that I did not know, because we had never talked. Then he said to me: “Well, Estefanía, set a date” and two months later we were married.

-Tell me about the wedding in Las Vegas, like a movie.

-We went to a Congress, in fact his son Adrián was also there and another doctor working with us. We left here with the idea to do it, but we didn’t know it was so emotional. The beauty of it all, we chose the songs to enter. Adrián came into my arm, very funny and emotional. We didn’t do the paperwork to have legal validity because we knew that later we would come back and get married here, so it was something symbolic, nothing more.

-When did you decide to have a child?

-Alberto told me one day: “I want everything from you: get married and have a child”. I didn’t want to have anything to do with being a mother because I didn’t connect with men, I died for animals. Until I felt like I wanted to complete the family. I got pregnant the year we got married, but we’ve been looking for it for a long time. Because of Alberto’s age, we went to have tests done: he was perfect and the one who didn’t fit was me, I have a problem that was a bit heavy, we tried different treatments, some clinics didn’t even want to take us. , it seemed too complicated, I left crying.

-What is the reason why you have difficulty conceiving?

-I have a low ovarian reserve, so every treatment we did, the ovules never grew enough to form an embryo. They do not grow, nothing can be removed with any treatment. Until one day they got one and here we are.

-How was that moment when you found out you were pregnant? ang

-In the last place we went, they told us they would try everything they had to try to get her pregnant. The day we found out, I couldn’t believe it, but because I was sick of being told it was so hard and it would never happen.

-How was Alberto Cormillot as a father?

-She enjoys it more, because when her other children are born she is arming Doctor Cormillot. It happened in the middle of a pandemic, so she enjoyed the pregnancy and more so did Emilio, our son. They both have their moments, for example, on the night I’m still working, they play. I find it very present. He was very involved, he wanted to give the first meals, he chose the fruits, everything. She is very involved in parenting.

-At what level?

-On Friday morning I started early at the clinic and they were together, I was able to calm down to be able to work and Emilio to stay with his father, to take care of him. Honestly, they criticized Alberto too much because he said he didn’t want to change his diaper and I didn’t care. I even prefer that he didn’t help me because he could use the whole pack of cotton in a single change.

-What is your reaction to the criticisms that may come out of the networks?

-For me, everyone can think what they want, I also propose not to judge, but sometimes biases come up and I resist it. But I don’t understand how there are people who take the time to find me and insult me ​​with a photo on social media, I wouldn’t do it. He’s a public figure, he knows it’s going to happen, that people are giving their opinion, it’s up to me to accept it for good or bad, and I choose to think that when someone says that it’s for themselves. reason and not against me. It is enough for me that people who know me, know who I am, what others think, there are always good and bad people, we cannot reconcile God and the devil.

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