Ana Obregón’s life could become a film script. One of those who mix beauty, success, loves and tragedies. Is that the Spaniard really went through everything. And more.
To the 68 years oldToday, the actress and host is in the news for becoming a mom to a child via surrogacy in Miami, USA. However, what motivated this decision, as personal as it is controversial, was one of the worst tragedies a human being can experience: the death of a son.
In May 2020while the world was on pause due to the coronavirus pandemic, news shocked Spain: the 27 years old Álex Lequio, Obregón’s eldest son, had died afterwards they battled cancer for just over a year.
Who is Ana Obregon?
Ana Victoria Garcia Obregon was born in Madrid on March 18, 1955. Active and excellent student, she graduated from Licentiate in BiologyFor 10 years she studied ballet at the Conservatory, took piano and acting lessons, took modern dance and jazz classes in the USA and Great Britain.
But as a child, her health would play a trick on her. When she was 13, she had a tumor of the duodenum from which he recovered well; however, at 28, the disease challenged her again with a tumor in the uterussomething he also successfully passed, second readings. com.
After trying her luck as a model in England, made its film debut in 1979. Since then, his career has gone on quickly and relentlessly. He has participated in dozens of films and in 1984 he shot “Bolero”, with Bo Derek and settled in Hollywood to make his way into the mecca of stars.
A year later, fate brought her to Italy. There she had a role in the series “Give me a dream”, with Gianni Morandi, and worked again in 1987 in the film “Sound”, together with Pietro Fonda.
On television, he has also participated in blockbuster hits from the mid-1980s to the present day; but she was “What shall we bet?” (1993), the entertainment program she hosted with Ramón García, which definitely catapulted her to fame.
The great loves of Ana Obregón
THE Ana Obregón’s love life has been moreover, for decades, protagonist of the covers of the most important gossip magazines in Europe.
Their passionate and intense liaisons have covered hundreds of pages in these media outlets. The thing is had a relationship with personality famous or more famous than her and the press went crazy every time she was caught with someone.
Miguel Bose. Albert of Monaco and the soccer player David Suker are the best-known names, according to the site cited. But there were also rumors of an affair with the same David Beckhamwith whom he would have had some meetings in Madrid in 2001.
After the tragic death of her boyfriend, basketball player Fernando Martín, in a car accident, Ana Obregon began an affair with the count Alexander Lequiocousin of King Juan Carlos I. With him, she had her first child, Alexborn June 23, 1992.
The couple separated soon after in 1994 after dating a few infidelity that the Italian aristocrat would have committed.
The greatest pain: the death of Alex Lequio
“My son is the great man in my life”he always replied Ana Obregon when asked about him. Optimistic, cheerful and hardworking, from the first minutes of life Alex Lequio he grew up on photos and news headlines.
In 2018, what started with what appeared to be, in his words, “just a backache” It ended up being Ewing’s sarcoma, a so-called rare cancer that affects the bone or the soft tissue around it.
Shortly thereafter, the young man began a seven-month treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Dedicated body and soul to accompanying her son during treatment, Ana Obregón didn’t leave her side for a minute throughout the treatment which then continued in Spain.
He young died on May 13, 2020 in Barcelona and that was, without a doubt, the strongest blow that the actress has received in her life.
“My Alex, it has been and is such a privilege to be your mother. I love you always and forever. Eternally, Mom”concluded in the broad and moving farewell.
more pain and joy
Shortly after the loss of his son, the death of his mother and after months hers too father. Thus, in just over two years, her life was marked by absences and the presenter immersed herself in absolute sadness. Something that has even been publicly manifested.
It was precisely this anguish that led her to make the decision to do so Being a mother again at 68.
“A light filled with love has come into my darkness. I will never be alone again. I have lived again”, She posted on her Instagram account introducing the baby born in the US as surrogacy is not authorized in Spain.
The baby was born on March 20 and her name is Anna, like the actress and her mother, a name that means “pious, merciful, blessed by God”. An entire symbol.
Source: Clarin
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