“With that body you will never star in”

Karla Monroig Today the comedy caries Diary, woman and coffee, which reached number 1 at the box office in Puerto Rico. Although today he enjoys great success as an actress, he recalled a comment that devastated it years ago when he acted in soap operas.

Years ago, he met with a casting director who made a comment that marked her. “He tells me: Wow, you are one of the most talented talents we have, but with that body you will never star in,” he said in the YouTube show Relax and comb of Michelle Peiret. “I said ‘What?’ The self -esteem to the floor went to me. ”

The soap opera actress as Analía’s face, the more the devil knows and Someone looks at youRisueña added: “Being more chubby I starred in two films.”

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In 2012 he became the mother of Amanda Zé, Fruit of your marriage to Tommy Torres. “The most difficult part is that a lifetime focused on my things, in my work, in my image, and suddenly you don’t have a second for you,” he says about the challenges of motherhood. And suddenly it was four in the afternoon and I had not been able to wash my teeth, and you look in the mirror and do not recognize yourself, when all your life was as important how you saw yourself because it depended what certain types of roles gave you. I had already heard ‘with that body you will never star’, fears wake up, “he confesses.

Today he appreciates that he could overcome postpartum depression. “To top it off when I had Amanda I had a very strong postpartum depression that affected me a lot,” he recalls. “My husband’s support was very important at that stage in dividing: ‘Hey Karla rests, I take care of the girl’, but it had also gone on tour in those first months,” he said about the Puerto Rican singer.

Although he was exhausted, he prioritized his baby’s well -being. “I was completely focused on getting her forward,” he says. “I had to seek professional help to get out of that stage,” Monroig admits. However, he also keeps good memories of his little girl’s first months. “I could enjoy my daughter, be the mother I wanted,”