“I don't know what I was doing trying to cover the sun with a finger”dice Toni Moreno about his 'coming out', which became official in 2018 after the memorable moment he starred in with Laura Pausini on Telecinco. The Canal Sur presenter published this Friday on her Instagram account her interview with Shanghaia magazine specialized in the LGTBIQ+ collective, which was made before this week's controversy and for which it has lost forgiveness both on social networks and on its program: “Have you had a filter? Tell me the truth, you are much thinner (…) Or is it the lentils with chorizo, because you have had many dishes”Moreno commented to an American TikToker, who showed her indignation on social networks at the communicator's unfortunate comment.
In this interview, the presenter speaks openly about her sexual orientation and her process until she felt free: “Now, with the girl, who is already turning four, I have a commitment to her to be more activist than ever.. There was a time when I didn't feel like sharing my sexuality with anyone,” she says, posing with the collective's flag.
Little Lola was born in January 2020, making the presenter, who was 46 years old at the time, a single and first-time mother: “The birth of my daughter has changed my mind; I don't want him to go through the ordeal that I went through. I want her to be free from a young age to decide naturally what she is, how she feels, who she falls in love with and not have as many mental problems as I had.“. Toñi is clear about the values she wants to convey: “I want her to feel proud of the family she has, the origin of her life, why she is here and what her mother is like”.
standard bearer
Regarding his new protest facet, Moreno adds: “Last Pride I gave the proclamation in Chiclana and I felt very good, because I felt that this was the inheritance that I was going to leave to my daughter. This next one, I will give the one in Torremolinos. Now I feel more relaxed, more free. I don't know; with more commitment to who I am”.
Regarding the stage in which she did not speak publicly about her sexual orientation, she gives her great friend as an example. Maria del Montewho came out of the closet in 2022 in her historic Seville Pride proclamation: “María del Monte always insists that straight people don't go around saying 'Hey, I'm straight'. Well, this is the same thing. I have never felt that I had to share that, which seems very intimate to me.“.
On this point, he clarifies: “I'm referring to the stage in which I dared to live it, because I also had one in which I didn't even dare to do it. I studied at a nun's school until I was fourteen. And there were many years in which I was not comfortable with what I felt or who I was attracted to. It was a fairly long process, it was not an easy thing. Because of my Catholic upbringing, because of everything. And look, over time I discovered that it was more in my head than in my environment.”
Thus, he reveals how he shared his most intimate side with his family: “When I tell my father – who was a country man, who had not gone to school –, my mother – who had worked like a mule in cleaning houses, taking care of people – her response was 'my daughter, we know that and what we want is for you to be happy'. I have never felt rejection in my environment, it was more me: not accepting myself“.
He also opens up about the first time he was aware that he liked women: “The first time I realized I liked a girl was when I was twenty-seven or twenty-eight.which is enough… Now, with time, I think about it: 'That nun that I loved to see every morning…'he points out between laughs.
Single mother
About her decision to be a single mother, María Casado's ex [que en septiembre se convirtió en madre con su ya ex, Martina diRosso] and Rosana also explains: “I have had several moments of wanting to share motherhood with a partner I have had., but things in life are for a reason. In the end I didn't get pregnant and then it was the couple that didn't come to fruition.”
That being the case, he dared to take the big step of his life: “What happens is that at the moment I said to myself, I'm 45 and I'm going to try for the last time, because I'm missing not the rice, but the chickpeas [risas], I am alone sentimentally. And since I'm alone, I face it alone. If at that time I had had a partner who had accompanied me along the way, I would not have had any problem sharing motherhood.“.
Open to love?
In this new stage of his life, he is clear that he is no longer going to hide for love: “When I fall in love (I hope I fall in love, because I really want to fall in love), then I will share it. I have fifty tacos and I need to fall in love“Of course, he also clarifies: “Maybe I know someone and I say, 'well until we see that this is consolidated we are going to be cautious, but for the families of both parties.' But I have nothing to hide.”
In short, the presenter is not closed to new relationships and makes it clear: “I really want to fall in love, because I believe that love is the great driving force of life. And I am full right now, with my daughter. I believe in love as a healing force. I am full at this moment in my life, more than ever. Full. With my girl, with my work. I am happy. But the love of a couple is necessary. I have felt it several times and I am very open to feeling it again. But you can't look for that, nor plan.“, sentence.
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