The newspaper archives confirm that the second week of January 1956 Madrid suffered the coldest day of the last century. An icy fountain on the Paseo del Prado was on the front page of newspapers and attests to the ten degrees below zero that the thermometers showed. In those days a woman came into the world sometimes considered cold, Ana Rosa Quintana, He turns 67 next week.
But Ana Rosa does not seem so icy in the interview given to her friend the journalist Rosa Villascastin for Ten minutes, in which it opens in meats. That Usera baby is today one of the most influential communicators in Spain, queen of the mornings for 18 years (its premiere on Telecinco’s mornings will be on January 8), successful businesswoman, happily married and mother of three children. . And she, above all, is a tough fighter, capable of facing the disease and winning two battles. She talks about that and much more in the weekly, which brings the presenter to its cover this Wednesday.
In 2022, she had to deal with breast cancer that kept her away from television, but she has come out stronger, supported by the audience. Ana Rosa’s program It is the last bastion that resists and maintains an indisputable leadership, an island in the midst of the debacle suffered by Mediaset, in full transition, after firing Paul Vasily: “I am very sorry that he is leaving,” repeats Ana Rosa. But despite the affection that she has for the outgoing CEO and that she shared tears with the Italian, the journalist and the producer of her Unicorn are very well positioned in the new stage led by Borja Meadow.
“The first day I got to the bathroom, and I was left with a lock in my hand, I decided to shave my head”
“I always said: ‘When I leave TV I’m going to cut my hair short and I’m going to dye it blonde’. I held my hair almost until the end, but the last four chemos were different. Dr. Antonio González told me, my oncologist. The first day I got to the bathroom, and I was left with a lock in my hand, I decided to shave my head,” he explains: “I didn’t want to go through that moment of seeing your locks fall out,” says in the interview.
“I prefer that it happened to me, that it did not happen to anyone in my family”, he says in his conversation with Villacastín. She also tells that when she finally joined the program she “was quite nervous” and that the night before she did not sleep. She also speaks Ana Rosa de the importance of feeling covered by your loved ones, especially for her husband: “Juan has suffered a lot, he has not said it or shown it, but he lost a lot of weight, more than me, I suppose it is an effort to have a person, in this case me, who does not Neither the boys nor Juan nor my friends have stopped worrying,” she adds. “She has made me feel the best in the world, when I turned blonde she told me: you have a beautiful head, it is true that I have never had a bad face, or a bad color, but when my hair and eyelashes fall out…”.
The healthy diet of your naturopath
“This year we have spent Christmas almost like when I was a teenager, because we have taken the opportunity to take a trip to Thailand with the whole family, my three children, my husband and I,” she declared in Ten minutes. “I have been quite lucky, the operations have gone well, the treatment, I have had no side effects, I have had company, a lot of love, and on the other hand it has been very exciting,” she congratulates herself. “For me, getting up early is a prize, being able to get up every day to go to work, is the best thing that could happen to me,” she reflects. “You have to take care that you don’t (your head) go away, be busy, do things. There were days that I didn’t feel like moving from the sofa because they had given me chemo, I was a little more tired, but I haven’t stopped doing sports and to take care of the food, based on a supernatural diet”, he confesses. “I went to a naturopath, he gave me many supplements for defenses, to be well, vitamin C, turmeric, a lot of things. He put me on a plate with pills in the morning, but all natural. I have removed red meat, sugar , fats, I am intolerant to gluten, I don’t eat gluten or alcohol either, in the end it was boring, I had kefir with fruit for breakfast every day, and at noon, vegetables with grilled chicken or fish”.
Felipe VI and Letizia yes, Emeritus no (but come back)
Pointed out on occasions for being somewhat leaning to the right, Ana Rosa is forceful: “I do not charge from any party”, sentence, and stands up for the Kings: “Felipe and Letizia are embroidering it in a very complicated political situation.” When they ask him if King Juan Carlos should return to Spain, he says that “it would be a disaster if something happened to him outside of Spain. Having said that, everything he has sought for him alone”, he declares. But if he gives the Emeritus a slap on the wrist, he says of the current Monarch that he has had a very hard period, and that he and his wife are giving the best image of Spain. He says of Letizia that she has matured spectacularly and praises the role that she is also playing as mother of the Princess of Asturias and the Infanta Sofía.