This interview was posted in December 2019 in the printed edition of Somos

Para que Alondra García Miró esté hoy en una sala de las instalaciones de este Diario, en el Centro de Lima, bebiendo café a temperatura ambiente luego de una intensa sesión de fotos que ha durado más de tres horas (entre flashes, retoques de maquillaje y cambios de vestuario), ha tenido que pasar por varios altibajos. Por ejemplo, empezar en el modelaje cuando aún estaba en el colegio, afrontar el luto en el segundo año de su carrera universitaria, emprender un (primer) negocio propio a los 19 años, entrar a la televisión, dejar su hogar para iniciar una vida en Brasil, abrir un restaurante en 2019 y embarcarse en relaciones amorosas que han estado bajo la atenta lupa mediática.

Those passages of his life, says the 28 -year -old girl, have been part of learning.“Today I do not regret anything I have done.I can have wrong, yes, but it is part of growing.If I am where I am, it is for everything that I have happened.I am sure that everything has fit to be here today, sitting with you, giving this interview.So it had to be, ”she says with convincing certainty.The public figure is quite affable in front and behind the cameras.She explains that this good predisposition comes from love to her work.“I do it with a happy heart.I have realized that I'm really fortunate. ”This last sentence constantly repeats it in our talk, and soon we would understand the reason.

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María Alondra García Miró Santillana comes from an artistic lineage.Her father, Rafael, is a renowned painter and plastic artist.Her mother, Maricarmen, was an interior model and designer."My parents have taught me that if I'm going to do something, do it well."She phrase that she really understood when she, back in 2005, she started in modeling with a recognized department store (of which she today is an image).She graduated from the Villa María College and she knew that she wanted to be a fashion designer.“Since I was little I was in that world.Apart that it was a career that my mother always wanted and she could never do it.It was like a shared dream between them. ”She entered the Mod’art International School, but her life took a 180 degree turn.

“When my mom died [pauses] I was in the second year of career.There was still a year, but I told myself "I started this race with her, almost like a dream together, I have to finish it."He says he helped her cling to God.At the moments she wanted peace, she listened to the Gospel.“I am supercreative.Every night, before sleeping, I pray. ”

As a kind of divine signal, a friend proposed to undertake a business: a shoe brand.The reception was such that they decided to expand the business for the sale of clothing.At 19, Alondra inaugurated Soirée (‘Night’, in French) on Avenida Caminos del Inca, in Surco.The next step was to have your own workshop.“In that interim, he presented the opportunity to work on TV: enter the world of reality.I got into wind and tide […].In those two years I entertained a lot.The salary gave me to be able to live and inject money into my brand.I made a small box and when I was about to leave [the screens] to get back into the theme of fashion, I went to live in Brazil.That is another story. ”

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It was December 2014. An Alondra's friend told her that the footballer Paolo Guerrero was organizing a beneficial activity and asked if he wanted to participate.She accepted without hesitation.On the 22nd of that same month, the duo - together with other acquaintances - went to San Juan de Miraflores for a chocolate with the neighbors.They talked, exchanged numbers and left sometimes.He began 2015 and the then Corinthians player had to return to Brazil for the preseason.The local tabloids tell that the model chose to move away from television to accompany the player.“[She at that time] she was younger.It gave me anger because [they affirmed things that] were not like that.It is not easy to be in a country where they do not speak your language, it is not the same culture, you are not your family, you do not have to talk to.Are you alone".

—¿Entonces qué hizo que fueras a Brasil?

"Love [laughs]."

—¿Y por qué te quedaste?

-For love.

Since last year, the press has not stopped linking it again to the striker, although none has confirmed (officially) the relationship.Exactly one month ago, the Captain of the Peruvian National Team turned 36.In the celebration - according to the videos spread on social networks - Alondra was present.On January 7, they were captured by entering Jorge Chávez International Airport to address a flight to Brazil.

—Según tus creencias, ¿crees que el matrimonio es para toda la vida?

-Yes, completely.I wish, with all my heart, a marriage for a lifetime.Today it happens a lot: the problems begin, the potatoes burn [makes a noise with her hand emulating a flight] and the couples separate.It is not like this.You have to have commitment to everything you do.

—¿Sientes que estás cerca de ese sacramento?

"No, not yet."At some point, hopefully yes.For now I am overwhelmed in my work.

—Antes de que cambies el tema…

- [laughs] I am a specialist, Vane.I have years in this.

—¿Te gustaría dar ese paso con tu actual pareja?

"Of course, but all in time."She left it to God.When it has to be, it will be.When it may, I will tell.I hope that when they read this interview, they know [that I will do it public] to stop asking me.

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Every time the model returns to Peru is for work.On this occasion, to share the news about a new project: to be an ambassador of Puma.“It goes with my personality.[Puma] speaks to the empowered woman, whom she works to get her dreams, and I have felt like this in recent years: fight to get what I want.That is the Puma Women. ”She advances that campaigns with messages have come to be reinforced - specially - in these times: self -esteem.

On each visit, also, it takes the opportunity to supervise Mercatto Verde, the healthy food restaurant that inaugurated in September.“Now that Mercatto walks alone, I want to resume other projects.I still have many more things [to do], ”she says before saying goodbye.Alondra leaves the same way as she arrived: with a smile on her face.//

FACT:

Alondra García Miró makes his debut on the small screen with ‘I will find you again’, from America TV.It opens on April 20 and goes from Monday to Friday at 9:30 p.m.

Own footprint

THE BEGINNING.The model had a fleeting passage through the reality programs."In those two years [that she was on the small screen] I had a lot of fun," she says.She moved away from television to start a life in Brazil.

ReflectorsIn September 2015, she was presented as an image of Mossimo, from Saga Falabella (department store with which she started in modeling).

NEW WAY.In September 2019, Alondra - together with her partner Alessandra Acevedo - inaugurated Mercatto Verde, a healthy food restaurant."It has been a battle, but we never throw in the towel."

Thanks:

Makeup: Nicolás León (@nicolasleonlima)

Styling: Andrea García (@lasmariasss)

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