Although it is difficult for us to believe it, she says it herself:
there is a calm Ona Carbonell,
who goes to look for her one and a half year old son at the nursery, who makes him dinner and tells him stories, who lives her new pregnancy planning her sick leave maternal...
And then there is the other Ona Carbonell, the synchronized swimming prodigy who has won 23 medals, the one who jumps into the pool wanting more recognition, the one who has just finished her Design degree at the university, the one who is fighting to make the maternity in elite sports, the one that cleans beaches to protect their beloved oceans, the one that knows a lot about healthy nutrition and the one that teaches how to protect themselves from the sun...
"When you put a lot of effort into something you have to go for it. no, why do we do things?"
he wonders.
I could see both of them in the documentary that opens today, entitled 'Ona Carbonell.
Start again'.
"Whoever knows me in the water and not outside, can't imagine what I'm like,
and whoever knows me as a friend when they see me in the water doesn't believe it's me," explains the swimmer.
It was difficult for Ona to agree to make this documentary because she, always jealous of her privacy, gave her a lot of
"respect for stripping naked before the whole world
- it will be broadcast in 50 countries and has been translated into 5 languages - but the cause is worth the pain".
2021, a very complicated year
And what is the cause that now occupies your attention?
To get there, you have to go back to a year ago
- "one of the most difficult of my life",
he says - when he had the opportunity to start over, that is, to return to the Olympic Games, the ones in Tokyo, shortly after being the mother of her first child, Kai.
After months getting out of the pool every two and a half or three hours to express her milk and store it in a portable refrigerator, she found herself faced with the
"impossible" conditions of the Japanese government
if she wanted to go compete with her husband and her son to continue breastfeeding. .
The swimmer, who is pregnant with her second child.
I had previously entered the Internet to search for these words:
'breastfeeding and elite sport'.
She did not find a single reference.
Now there are, many, and they are largely due to her: "My mother made me a home video breastfeeding my son, I explained the situation and it had a great impact. I felt good for claiming this situation and giving it visibility" .
Since then, he has made this cause his banner because "conciliation and motherhood continue to be a
taboo subject
in sport. If you look closely, how many footballers are fathers and how many are mothers".
Their fears
Ona doesn't want her classmates to find themselves in the same situation.
"The decision to go to the Tokyo Games was very hard, I was there all the time expressing my milk to maintain lactation, although they warned me of the risk of cutting it because it was going to have a lot of wear, or that my son would lose his reflex suction, which happened.
This has to change," he
says.
Because Ona has already delayed motherhood because of her profession - "I would have liked to be a mother earlier, but my fears prevented me," she says.
This despite the fact that having a child has made her show her best version:
"Women are prepared for everything
and we have to keep fighting to make it so, so we don't have to give up our personal or professional lives, so that we don't have to be talking about this."
When talking about Ona Carbonell, it is inevitable to remember that she has won 23 medals and compare them with the 33 of another great swimmer,
Michael Phelps.
Has he had it easier?
"Women in sports have had more difficulties and she continues to have them, both financially and in terms of infrastructure, conciliation...", the athlete replies.
other battles
But this is not the only cause of Ona, who says that her life "is water, weightlessness", and that is why she fights for the oceans:
"We are destroying the planet and there is only one.
Along with sponsors such as Isdin clean beaches, we educate in schools, I participate in foundations...".
And he still finds time to become a star in the kitchen - he won 'MasterChef Celebrity' - and be a champion of healthy eating.
"Processed foods don't come into my house,
I'm giving up a lot of sugar, and my son doesn't eat sugar or salt," he admits, "but without hysteria, always with balance."
Nutrition is not the only way to take care of Ona, who
collaborates with Isdin to raise awareness of the dangers of the sun for the skin.
"Isdin and I go hand in hand because you have to be aware that the skin has memory, you have to treat it well from the beginning and protect yourself from the sun every two hours."
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