“I became obsessed with food”

The model and also Tertullian in the Sonsoles Onega program has opened her heart this Wednesday to narrate the nightmare she lived after her coronation as the most beautiful woman in Spain, in 1996: “I was tremendously unhappy for an episode that I had of eating disorder. I became obsessed with food.”

It was one of the most difficult times in the life of Sevillian and has suffered silently until this moment. María José Suárez He recalled that the rhythm of his agenda after being crowned was frantic and did not have time “or to rest.” He was then 21 years old and great enthusiasm for carving a career and a future in the world of fashion and show, so he never rejected a project: “I felt that they abused that I was not complaining because I was young.” Young and also naive, because María José says that, at that age, she didn’t even know where her limits were: “We were not educated in putting limits. To say: ‘I will not do this.’ As I did not complain, I paid it In solitude. “

A feeling of lack of control and helplessness that culminated in a toxic relationship with the food: “I got up at night and ate a yogurt package, mixed with a tuna and cookie sandwich. Everything without meaning already hidden,” he confessed. “At the end of my reign, I had taken 12 kilos,” he recalls.

Advised by her family, María José sought professional help and received a diagnosis: depression. After months of treatment, he managed to rebuild and resumed his career with more force than ever: “What helped me most was learning to say ‘No’. When I delivered the crown, I decided to stop and went a month with my mother to Japan. I needed Feeling my life, “he finished.