Laly Ruiz: "The husbands liked my gym because it gave their wives a beautiful body"

• Aristocracy Marta Chávarri, from star of the 'biutiful scandal' to discreet housewife

Before the cross fit, the

, Patry Jordán and the

gurus

, she was there.

And there it continues, because, at 77, Laly Ruiz continues to shape bodies, as she likes to say, as she did in the 80s, when women from the

Madrid

queued to join her gym in Madrid. Lagasca street.

It was 1984, he had just landed in Madrid from London and his center was a bombshell.

All the aristocrats and celebrities of the time wore colorful leggings and leggings to emulate Marta Chávarri and get the great guy that Laly had gotten for her.

"Ahhh Marta", she exclaims, "she was very cute and how charming ... She appeared shortly after opening the gym, she was never missing and I changed her body. I put a dreamy silhouette on her."

It was the time of the

Los Albertos and Mario Conde.

Bankers and businessmen who boasted of balls and cannon women.

Like Marta.

"The husbands liked that they went to my gym because their bodies were very beautiful," Laly acknowledges.

The fact is that

who took and picked up those very lined ladies.

"There was no room in the locker room for fur coats, how he wore that," he recalls.

Of his current clients he does not loose a garment "because they would get angry", although he assures that he has many politicians and businesswomen hooked on his method, which he continues to teach at the Womanspace gym on General Pardiñas street.

In the good old days, it had four centers - "It was very good for me, but I didn't get rich because I didn't have an efficient payment system, they paid me when they wanted" -

, María García de la Rasilla and

to Lourdes Arroyo -Mario Conde's wife- and her daughter, Esperanza Aguirre, Veva Longoria, Carmen Sevilla, Isabel Sartorius or Ana Botín.

"I did not know anyone, I lived many years outside of Spain and did not find out about the celebrity. Besides, I have never been frivolous and did not read

so I had no idea who was coming."

The first VIP client was the

,

.

"I put him at the door to inform all those who came asking what had to be done to sign up. I did not know that she was a duchess or anything and I said 'Piedi, go report'. He brought me all his friends," he recalls.

And with so much marquise and

she also became famous as

.

Does it bother you to be called that?

"Not at all, for me she is a pride because she was the first but she was not an expert, her technique was not very refined and she has caused many injuries.

, ever", he presumes.

He fondly remembers his former students.

arrived at the gym before me, she was demanding and rigorous in person.

and she left a minute earlier, so that no one would notice her. She always had one limousine at the door.

, and Carmen Sevilla ... was not very disciplined but she was a sweetheart. One day I drove her home and she asked me to do her biography.

In addition to being a

expert

, Laly is a voracious reader.

From a young age she was a pioneer and her native Lorca soon became too small for her.

to live

, where

and

, and later to London.

"I have always been studying, I am passionate about literature, but during those years, I also did gymnastics and I ended up patenting my method".

He is capable, he assures, of correcting almost everything, like

.

"Sure, I would get him right in three months. Every time I see him on TV I think, 'Pablito, baby, why don't you come to the gym? From the first class I was going to notice it."

Laly Ruiz, in the 80s.

And since you are an expert in body modeling, what do you think of Queen Letiza and her

?

"It would be an honor to have her as a student but I have nothing to improve her, she is wonderful," he says.

Of course, he makes a request: "To her majesty the Queen, who is very loved, followed and creates a trend among young women, I would ask you to

."

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