Bibiana Fernández turns 70: from being a (television) partner of Carlos Herrera to her lesser-known loves

This Tuesday, February 13 Bibiana Fernández He turned 70 and celebrated it with a big party that was attended by his boss. Ana Rosa Quintanawho arrived with her husband, and a lot of colleagues and friends.

Bibiana wore a stunning green dress. Surrounded by intimates such as Alaska and Mario, Loles León, Rossy de Palma, Marisa Paredes, Julieta Serrano, Topacio Fresh and Pedro Almodóvar, among many other guests, Bibi acknowledged on her own networks that this very special figure has led her to look back. Be grateful for everything that life has given you. Or, rather, what she has earned hard, since nothing and no one has made it easy for her in her tortuous career.

Born in the wrong body and with a name with which he never identified, Manuel Fernández Chica came into the world on a cold February 13 in Tangier. Her parents, from Malaga, had already been married for 17 years when they had her, but when she was six years old they couldn't stand living together any longer and separated from her. It was precisely a Twelfth Night, and she remembers with sadness that she left the house crying, holding on to her father and with the toys tightly held in her hand as the only consolation. Her life began to collapse, she went with her father to a lodge where they slept in shifts, since he worked at night as a taxi driver and picked up women from hostess clubs. Bibi, who already had to deal with her own internal battle upon knowing that she had been born in the wrong body (she always felt like a child), also had to face the difficult prospect of having to go out to look for her father for many days. through the bars of the city when he had not returned home. To make matters worse, he did not let her see her mother, but she did it secretly, something that cost her to gain several kilos because, so that her father would not find out, the girl ate with her and Then at his father's house he ate again. She like this, she admits, she arrived at 12 years old with 80 kilos. A year later, she decided to flee that broken home and she went to Malaga to study and fight to be the woman she always wanted to be.

But it was complicated. And even more so in a society that still did not use the concept 'trans' in its vocabulary and had the easy insult too close to the tip of its tongue. However, alert and determined to forge her destiny, she immediately found work to get ahead, first, making beds in a hotel and selling books. Then, putting miles in between and going to Barcelona, ​​where she was offered to work on the stage of a cabaret, and she began to feel more accepted with her body, which she exhibited every night in a show that filled the room. of curious

He did military service for a few months because on his ID he was a man

Her goal was to earn as much money as she could to have surgery and be more of a woman than she felt inside, something that not even the rejection she felt during the few months she was doing in the military could take away from her.
It didn't take long for his talents to emerge and in 1976 he made his film debut. He went hand in hand with Vicente Aranda, with the film sex change. There he would begin his film career. The Almodóvar girl has actually only been under Pedro's direction four times, but she has a whopping 18 feature films under her belt. She even released an album in 1980 called Bibi Andersen, with hits like Call me Lady Champagne o Save us.

The actress, presenter and television talk show host, who finally managed to travel to London in 1991 and have a vaginoplasty, three years later managed to change her name and have a true ID that defined her as Bibiana Manuela. couple of Carlos Herrera as a TVE presenter, with or without an official woman's name, those who never cared about the gender with which she had been born were the three men who marked her heart. The first was Alfredo, who she remembers as a “dead gorgeous” man, although with “dangerous addictions.” Then Cupid wanted her to fall in love with the one who was her representative for 14 years, Javier, but he unexpectedly died, leaving her broken. In the middle of it, some romance that left her unexpectedly. And then she arrived Asdrúbal Ametler, the only one she ever married. It was a model that she met in Havana and with whom she married civilly in the year 2000. Four years later she was single again, and few more – serious – romances are known about her, apart from a Lebanese man named Hussein who he rarely talks about. She also had a flirtation with the soccer player littlebefore he married Arantxa de Benito.

Currently, Bibiana lives alone with her dogs in a home where, as a curious eccentricity, we know that she has placed an altar in her bedroom with images of deceased friends and relatives to whom she puts candles on their birthday. Yesterday they lit up again to welcome some 70 who we hope will be as intense and wonderful as their life journey.