Velvet 4x2 "Más que una cara bonita" / "More Than A Pretty..

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Ecos de Sociedad, number: 327 Price: 16.50 pesetas, 1963

Interviewer: Well, today the magazine Ecos of Sociedad comes back to the Galleries Velvet to know a bit more about Cristina Otegui, how are you? 
Cristina: Fine, thank you very much for asking me.

I: We are pleased to see you fully recovered, after that severe nervous breakdown, how was your stay at the clinic? and, do you feel strong enough to start a new stage in the Galleries? 
C: Well, yes, i'm fully recovered, there have been years of treatment and to fight a lot to move forward, and, yes, i'm doing very well, very calm, very focused, looking forward to work, and to totally focus in the new masculine line we are going to launch in the "Galerías Velvet" and that i hope is a big success, thanks. 

I: Do you regret, Cristina, about the incident with Ana, do you believe that you could resume your relationship, at least in the professional way?
C: Of course i regret it, it hurts me a lot to remember it, right now i can't understand what happened to me. I know i suffered a severe nervous breakdown, i had had personal problems, i was close to lose my daughter, and well... i don't recognize myself. I know it was terrible what i did, it's going to be very difficult to forgive, but well , i'm here to try to amend... my errors, to ask for forgiveness, to show people that i'm a new Cristina, that... i come very focused, and with the only hope to show that i'm the Cristina from before, and this was a chapter i prefer to forget. I don't know if Ana will be able to forgive me, i'm going to try, i would like... to recover the relationship we had in the beginning. Certainly, i'm going to do everything possible to make this happen. 

I: It's honourable to listen you saying those words.
C: Thanks. 

I: I know it's to delve a bit in the personal level, but, from our sources, we know that the relationship with Raul de la Riva is not like it used to be either, because of past events. Do you feel strong enough to recover that relationship too?
C: Certainly, as for me, effort and dedication are not going to be missed. For me, Raul de la Riva is a soul mate, lifelong friend, in fact our friendship was very important for achieving that Raul could work with us, here in Velvet. And well, i think that time heals wounds, and i hope be able to show to Raul that i'm still Cristina, his friend that he knew and that he can forgive. To me forgiveness is very healing, so... yes, i hope to retake our relationship.  

I: Let's speak about happy things...
C: Please

I:How has maternity changed life to you?
C: Well, this is something i had wished from forever, it's the most beautiful that has happened to me in my life, the most important, my daughter is the reason for what i live, she has been the motor that has made me really fight, and to have a resolution to recover, to move forward, to be a mother that she can feel proud... and... for her i do everything in reality... my life right now is Cristina, my daughter, for her i live. 

I: Well, i think we got the headline. I would like to propose a very simple game. If we'd give you a blank sheet to draw a dress, your dream dress for a special event, what characteristics will it have it?
C: I think that the question is very funny, but i have to tell you that, what i would do, will be to call Raul de la Riva, to design it, but maybe i would give him some clues, probably it would be a dress of taffeta, brocade, without cleavage, without sleeves , why not?, hmm, straight and slightly fitted. Of course, I would put a lot of attention and take care in the complements. 

I: Surely that our (female) readers will love to listen your opinion, and to imagine this dream dress. Thank you vey much.
C: Thank you very much.

😣 Agree

Any chance the 2nd episode with subs will be up today?

Lara, judging from other post, it's said that Carlos is a good catch back in the 6o's. He good looking, has a good career and heccomes from a good background. My guess is that Ana is a challenge for him. Carlos knows he can have his pick of women but he wants Ana because she does not want him. He to is probably not use to rejection. In life it's a cycle people always want want they can't have.

I'm anxious to see if Ana leads him on. Judging from her comments to Rita, she hardly sees him and I would really be surprised if she's slept with him. If he's waited in Ana for five years without any indication that she wants a life with him then he's in denial and obsessed. I would keep it moving if I were Ana. Alfi. Made a good point when she said Ana was honest with Carlos when she told him she did not love him. Carlos is not taking no for an answer. Also Christine made a good point about Carlos man handling Ana. I would be afraid of him. Those are not good signs. He should find love in someone who loves him back.

Awesome! Thank you!!!

Thank you soo much!!glad we don't have to wait until next year!

Thanks, VV!!

Camille, no doubt Carlos is horrible and Ana should never have allowed him back into her life given his violence. He and Alberto hated each, it's almost like a slap in the face of the latter's 'memory' that she would allow him near his kid. Unfortunately she has, so just looking at it from where it stands now, I just don't get it. It makes zero sense, especially from his end. She can be viewed as a challenge, but its been so long already and it's still such a nothing relationship. I really want to know what Ana will do too and I'm dying to know if she slept with him! I do believe he is exactly like Cristina, only a hateful, obsessed man would sabotage the woman he supposedly loves by keeping those letters and hanging around for all that time when it's clear she doesn't love him. I can't understand how anyone would want to be with someone for any other reason but love.