Risto Mejide: “In my first marriage, which no person is aware of about, she was two years older than me”


The presenter reveals this unknown truth of a earlier companion to Ruth Jiménez (46) to defend himself in opposition to those that consider that he’s solely with girls youthful than him. He additionally defends his new companion, Natalia Almarcha, from the criticism acquired on the community, highlighting his expertise and curriculum with 27 years. “Self-sufficient, emancipated and impartial…” “Expressed my love, who am I hurting?”, he says, fed up with the prejudices for love with an age distinction, which he addresses in his new guide and also will do in his subsequent ‘Traveling with Chester’

The 20 years that separate him from his final {couples}, and none of them over thirty, have as soon as once more turned the presenter right into a goal of criticism on social networks, alongside the strains of these acquired by Leonardo DiCaprio (additionally 48 years previous), with who there’s a principle that he can’t have girlfriends who’re over 25 years previous.

I fall in love with the individual, no matter age

Risto has already made it clear that the truth that Laura Escanes and Natalia Almarcha are of an analogous age is the product of likelihood. “I fall in love with the individual, no matter age,” he additionally mentioned on the Cuatro program, the place he spoke for the primary time in regards to the new “stage”, since he doesn’t wish to name it a “relationship”, with the 27-year-old Valencian pharmacist who accompanied him on the presentation of his new guide, Sixteen Notes. He mentioned of her that what had conquered him is that they’ve “the identical purpose in life” and customary hobbies (“she actually likes studying and music, like me”).

Natalia Almarcha supported Risto Mejide within the presentation of his bookEuropa Press

However, there are those that proceed to criticize that Risto falls in love, exactly, with girls youthful than him. “Journalists are very clumsy after they do not ask Risto Mejide if he has ever fallen in love with a 60-year-old girl. And so perhaps we start to see who the ageist is. “I’ll consider what he says when he falls in love with a girl older than him, 60 or 70 years previous, do not we see it? There is, love…”, two Twitter customers uncovered lately.

Journalists are very clumsy after they do not ask Risto Mejide if he has ever fallen in love with a 60-year-old girl. And so perhaps we start to see who’s the ageist

— ladypalo (@ladypalo) March 26, 2023

Risto Mejide and the distinction in age, there are a lot of prejudices, too unhealthy they do not perceive that he falls in love with very younger girls, I’ll consider what he says when he falls in love with a girl older than him, 60 or 70 years previous, why not? we see? Oh, love…

— Maria Elena Castillo (@ElenaPuyol2) March 20, 2023 Reveals that he was married to a girl older than him

The subject of the age distinction of their newest relationships is a recurring theme in all of the interviews that Mejide is giving lately on the event of his new guide, by which he addresses exactly the love of the musician Johann Sebastian Bach with a youthful girl. When El Periódico asks him by likelihood that he “reoffends” together with his new companion, “27 years previous, once more”, the presenter responds with a sure irony and weariness: “How many am I allowed to have?”

And that is when Risto reveals an unknown truth of his life, which proves that he too is able to falling in love with older girls. “In my first marriage – that she is aware of of nobody – she was two years older than me. The mom of my first baby, two much less,” he says in reference to the presenter Ruth Jiménez (46 years previous), mom of his son Julio (12 years previous), and to a earlier marriage, of which he had not spoken till now, with a girl older than him, who will now be round 50 years previous.

Before starting his relationship with Laura, Risto spent six years with Ruth Jiménez.divinity.es

Risto Mejide shouldn’t be very given to speaking about his non-public life, past carrying his relationships naturally, since he doesn’t conceive of life if it’s not with a companion. “I wish to benefit from the journey with somebody,” he mentioned on Cuatro. But he needed to supply this details about his previous sentimental life to defend himself in opposition to those that insist on labeling him the stereotype of a person who seeks youthful girls, or seeing one thing detrimental or suspicious in relationships with an age distinction, particularly when the person is older

Before, same-sex {couples} had been discriminated in opposition to and right now we not do it

“Before, same-sex {couples} had been discriminated in opposition to and right now we do not do it, proper?” Risto says within the aforementioned interview, hoping that ultimately society will find yourself overcoming this prejudice.

Laura Escanes and Risto MejideInstagram

As he himself says, with out aspiring to, he has turn out to be a standard-bearer for the protection of affection with an age distinction, and there are a lot of people who find themselves writing to thank him and inform him about their very own related experiences. Some testimonials that he’s sharing in his Instagram tales, and that, as he has revealed, have inspired him and the staff of his program Viajando con Chester (Cuatro) to dedicate a program to this matter.

“Privately, many {couples} with an age distinction write to me each week telling me about their dramas. They inform me ‘How do you do it?’, ‘Thank you for normalizing one thing that must be regular’. Because what’s behind the discrimination as a result of age distinction is machismo ”, she laments.

“When a younger lady falls in love with an older man, the suspicion is that she is after cash, that she is searching for one thing. She has no standards, nor freedom to fall in love with whoever she needs. That is to say, she is a whore, it’s machismo in disguise! “, denounces Risto, whom they’ve generally come to accuse of” pedophilia “, when how he says,” I solely specific my love, who am I hurting? “.

Allegation in protection of his present girlfriend, Natalia Almarcha

The sufferer of this discrimination based mostly on “ageism” is commonly the youthful girl, as is the parallel case of Marta López Álamo (26 years previous), the fiancée of Kiko Matamoros (66), and now Natalia Almarcha, the Risto’s new companion, who on account of her public look with him final week, has additionally been the topic of criticism on the networks.

Natalia Almarcha, Risto Mejide’s new girlfriendGetty Images

That is why the presenter additionally got here out in his protection right now, highlighting his 27-year-old resume. “Associate Pharmacist. Graduated in Pharmacy, Orthopedics, Nutrition and Dietetics. Classical guitar on the Conservatory. Master’s diploma in instructing Self-sufficient, emancipated and economically impartial for years. Mom chargeable for Kairo, a good looking Shiba Inu. And for that matter, with this nice expertise for illustration ”, Risto describes the trajectory of the younger girl with whom she is presently courting.

“And even so, my poor factor, for some folks they nonetheless do not have the lights to know what they need, neither in life nor in love. She urgently wants others to level it out to her. Luckily there are all the time good folks desirous to information and shield helpless, ignorant and defenseless girls in order that they’ll understand what actually fits them. Who can they love and who cannot”, Risto says satirically. “The wonderful factor is that these identical persons are those who’re distributing macho, normative cisgender hetero playing cards – and subsequently, they are saying, privileged – or, merely, manipulator. Anyway. Love extra and fuck much less, come on. We do our factor ”, concludes his plea in protection of the liberty of two adults to like whoever they need, no matter age.

Happy in regards to the success of his new guide

Apart from the talk on {couples} with an age distinction that has reopened their new relationship, Risto Mejide is devoted to selling his eleventh guide, Sixteen Notes, celebrating the great reception it has had within the few days it has been on sale.

“He has solely simply left and he’s already giving me a lot pleasure… thanks, thanks, thanks very a lot. Whether you purchase the guide or not, take heed to Johann Sebastian Bach. You can be doing your self a favor and bettering on the within, ”he says in a earlier publish.

His newest work is impressed by a love story by Bach with an age distinction. It is about within the yr 1720, when the musician accompanies a nobleman in a spa and when he returns they inform him that his spouse has died. But there’s a hole in his biography till he seems, a yr later, in love with Ana Magdalena, a girl he’s virtually twice his age.

As the Mediaset presenter (Everything is a lie, Got Talent, Traveling with Chester) already recounted in an interview with NIUS, it’s in his function as a author the place he reveals himself probably the most as he’s, and on this newest guide, it’s “the place I’m extra me”. “It has been a remedy. I clarify my means of understanding love, friendship, household and success, ”he says about his new novel, with autobiographical overtones that he doesn’t wish to specify. He assures that he “helped him shut his stage with Laura Escanes”, with whom he maintains a powerful relationship. A guide by which he additionally acknowledges that he addresses indirectly the start of his new sentimental relationship.