Her life was oriented towards advertising and public relations, with which it was natural that among her main occupations were tennis, horseback riding and aerobics.
Sofia Mazagatos has just become a mother at the age of 41, like Rosario Flores, Monica Bellucci or Carla Bruni. In May she announced her pregnancy. Then it became known that she was expecting a girl, who was born last Friday, November 27, and that the father is Tito Pajares. Behind is her most explosive stage that began with her title of Miss Spain in 1991. The popular model, away from the spotlight for some years now, also tried her luck as a television presenter and film actress. When she won the Miss award she was a third year BUP student and she said that after being elected she put on the crown and the sash and started crying like a cupcake.
The model was born in Madrid in 1974 and learned to model at a very young age. Her life was oriented towards advertising and public relations, with which it was natural that among her main occupations were tennis, horseback riding and aerobics. In 1993 Telecinco proposed her to replace Leticia Sabater in charge of children’s programs such as Desayuna con alegría and A mediodía alegría. In 2000 she debuted as an actress in the television series Paraíso. She also participated in Academia de baile Gloria with Lina Morgan, on TVE, and in Arrayán and Obsesión. Her films include The sea of wolf, Las pasiones de sor Juana, and Take off. Mazagatos, who took acting courses at the Actor’s Studio in New York, received her theatrical baptism with the play Esmoquin alongside veteran Arturo Fernández.
People especially remember their close collaboration with Mar Flores, who is also a model and actress. In 1996 they set up an agency whose business did not last long. The friendship between the two gave way to hard confrontations that were aired in different reality TV shows. A couple of years ago in the program Sálvame Deluxe of Telecinco, Mazagatos explained that it was very good for her friend to meet her because she was living a nightmare with her partner and had many debts, that she believed her because she had a small son, that she helped her despite the fact that in the three years they were together Flores was with five men, but that in the end she felt used. The truth is that that ephemeral agency between two young and beautiful models always gave something to talk about.
The rates in the world of advertising in those years were frankly high and, like elite athletes, models could hire their beauty and youth at the price of gold. Sofia Mazagatos and Mar Flores starred together in one of the Freixenet Christmas spots. In addition, during her professional career, Mazagatos has advertised for top brands such as Peugeot, Antonelli, Maybeline, Arizona Jeans, De Beers, Vidal Sassoon, and so on. The model was the object of irony by the media because on one occasion, instead of saying “I’m in the limelight”, she said “I’m in the limelight”.
As it happens with many Cinderellas who as children have put candles to their Prince Charming, Mazagatos has a past with dramatic overtones. The model did not meet her biological father until she was 12 years old. In fact, she was the fruit of an extramarital relationship. The progenitor, Isidoro, was married, had four children and until his official wife died he did not worry about Sofia’s whereabouts. Relations between father and daughter were never satisfactory, but when it seemed that the waters were calm, it was the relationships with the other men that did not get off the ground.
The first turbulent romance of the model was with José María González de Caldas, in which Isidoro intervened demanding them to marry. And her last known partner was the alleged Iranian millionaire Max Baldiyi, whose relationship also ended tempestuously. There were crossed accusations about an alleged prenuptial agreement according to which in case of separation the actress would have a salary of 150,000 dollars a year, a mansion in New York, a villa in Madrid, the right to use the boat, shares in the husband’s companies, and so on. In the end, the Iranian had neither boat nor mansion and lived on the pension of his ex-wife, an antique dealer living in Madrid. The montage served as fodder for the heart programs and the tabloids. Sofia’s motherhood, for sure, places her world in the right middle.