Chichila Navia gave marriage advice to one of her social media followers (@chichilanavia/Instagram)

Cecile it will heal boat He is currently on the lips of Colombians thanks to his appearance in the production of Netflix The first time, currently trending on the platform and in which she plays Professor Estela. Moreover, her relationship with the actor also Santiago Alarcon (who is also part of the cast of the series) is known to be one of the most stable in national show business.

That’s why her followers are curious to know how they managed to stay together for 23 years (18 of them in marriage). During an Instagram Q&A, a user asked her if she had any marriage advice, given her experience. However, Huila’s wife decided to hesitate a little to her interlocutor, telling him not to marry:

“Don’t get married, don’t get married (laughs). Oh, my love, what can I tell you?… It depends on the process they are going through. With Santiago, we are going to celebrate 18 years of marriage and 23 years of living together, so we have covered them all. Good advice is that you are not his mother, nor that he is your father, this is essential. You have these steps. Another is to work a lot on trust, on you, respecting the universes, everyone has the right to their space, having independent things, independent friends. Listening to each other, negotiating, 50/50, it’s super important”

When the story went viral on other portals that shared the video, users appreciated the advice he eventually gave to his followers, as well as the moment when he balked at the follower asking the question. question, because one of the things that the couple’s fans and followers admire the most is that she is very open and constantly cracks jokes.

A sign of the degree of complicity between Chichila and Santiago Alarcón is that he invited her to enter the rancha podcast he started doing a few weeks ago and they’ve already gone through Andres Parra there Alejandra Azcarate. In the episode titled “La gordita de” Oki-Doki”, the two had a long conversation where a touchy aspect was brought up for Huila’s wife in the past: fatphobia.

Chichila opened her heart and detailed how her battles unfolded when she was remembered as the “chubby” in one of Colombia’s iconic television programs of the 90s. She also spoke of despair to which the comments of those around her about her body drove her, to the point that it drove her to depression and bulimia.

On this subject, he said: “Since I was born, I was born and I was growing and then I was like a chubby baby and it was a tragedy for my mother, for the family in general”, confirming that at daily she had to endure comments about your whole family. It also affected her professional and personal development, considering that she has been acting since she was very young and there were roles that required her to lose weight in order to be accepted.

There were situations where, she said, her mother and aunt made the decision to impose restrictions on her to lose weight, such as locking the cupboard with a chain so that she did not consume the cookies. or the sweets that were usually kept there.

“I had to deal with fatphobia for many years of my life. It felt like something was wrong with me,” he said. Although he admitted that currently not everything is rosy, the situation has improved and now at least it is possible to have much healthier and more open conversations on subjects like this, which were almost taboo before.

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