The presenter is embarking on a new program 'Love Island', a reality in the style of 'The island of temptations' and is an ambassador for Intimina, a brand specialized in menstrual cups and Chinese balls.
Why have you chosen to be an ambassador for a feminine intimate hygiene brand? It is still a taboo subject and it should not be.
It is a care for the health of each woman and for the environment.
We do not stop to think what we contaminate with other types of methods that are never destroyed.
I'm
I am very proud of my career path in general, but specifically with the issue of the menstrual cup, I am beyond proud because I am changing the lives of many women.
I would have liked to have it changed earlier because I discovered it when I was 28 years old.
We women keep hiding that we have a period.
When my period was lowered in high school, a classmate gave me an eardrum as if it were a drug.
It's stupid.
I have been a very warrior and when I realized that I was hiding it myself, I would go with my tampon in my hand for everyone to see.
Nothing happens.
If you have to change your menstrual cup in a public bathroom, nothing happens.
It is blood.
Like if you cut your knee.
In fact, that blood is prettier, more sacred and has more feeling.
Explain to us what are the advantages of the menstrual cup to women who have never used it and to whom it gives us a lot of qualms.
I have been that woman.
The cup can last eight to ten years and you don't need to change it as often as tampons.
One thing that changed my life, apart from yoga, was reading the book 'This is my blood' by Elise Thiébaut.
If you read it to yourself, you never put a tampon back on again.
Is it easy to place?
The first day it was a bit of chaos and I was thinking, "Where is it? Is it gone?"
You start to get nervous, the muscles start to contract and it goes up a little more.
But, the cup is not going anywhere.
The first month is complicated.
But also this way you know yourself better and you know the color of your ruler.
Every woman has to listen to her body to know what she wants and to set her limits.
I often do yoga with my period and they tell me I'm crazy.
But it is that my body asks me for it.
Can you have intercourse with a menstrual cup?
There is a type of cup, which is flatter and you can put it further inside, and you can have penetrative sex without any problem.
Feminists claim menstrual pride and stop seeing the period as something dirty.
For me it is something of the most natural.
But I'm not proud of having my period either.
I have it because I am a woman and that is how nature has given it to me.
But I don't always feel very good, because I have a lot of hormonal changes.
Suddenly, I am very nice or very angry.
I cry, I laugh or I am extremely hungry.
It upsets me a lot.
Should we women use pelvic floor strengtheners more?
Chinese balls sound like porn, but they have nothing to do with it.
First of all, women and men have to be aware that the pelvic floor exists.
Just like you apply cream for stretch marks, the pelvic floor has to be strong and cared for.
I hardly use them because I do a lot of hypopressives and a lot of yoga.
I am extremely aware of my pelvic floor.
I am now talking to you and I have it tight.
And if I want to relax.
It is like a zipper.
I control it very well.
Do you suffer the tyranny of having to show off a perfect body?
No, I feel the tyranny of wanting to be a better woman every day.
I look back and realize that I have not always been the woman I like to be today.
I have not always had the values that I have today.
Life is maturing.
I read interviews and think: "What a girl!"
I'm not saying how silly, but a little bit.
I would like to go back 11 years ago and take the Pedroche from before and say to her: "Sit here for a moment that you and I are going to talk about. You are going to read this book. Don't talk about topics you don't know."
Before I talked about everything and they have given me a lot.
Now I'm not like that.
If I don't know about something, I have no opinion.
You said that phrase that you were neither a feminist nor a sexist, which was later repeated by Paula Echevarría.
We live in a very macho society and very marked by heteropatriarchy and among women we have to help each other.
When I said that phrase, the journalist could have stopped me and said: "Cristina, what you want to say is this ...".
But he preferred to publish it and give me hosts.
In the case of Paula Echevarría, what I did was help her and write it privately.
"Paula, I know what you meant."
We always get on the bad side and feel very offended all the time.
Isn't it better to understand what he's trying to say?
She was expressed badly because years ago you did not have the same knowledge that you have now about feminism.
I am grateful that this topic is hot and that we are taking big steps towards equal rights.
The man and the woman are not equal.
What we want is equal rights.
Paula Echevarría also said that those who stoned her in the networks were feminists.
Are they also the ones who stoned you?
I like to think not.
Feminists, among whom I consider myself, are more about sisterhood and helping each other.
Who stoned me?
People who need a hug.
People I know who are happy and have a good life don't mess with other people.
People who have a hard time and have problems are the ones who put all their anger on social networks.
Does the criticism affect you?
I'm not made of stone.
The other day someone put a phrase that became very viral: "That I can with this does not mean that it does not weigh me down."
I carry a backpack with a lot of criticism every day.
There is a day when, suddenly, I explode, everything affects me, I think that they are right and I think horrible things.
Luckily it doesn't last long because I have my feet on the ground and a family that loves me and many friends who know how to take me to the right side.
The
haters
They do not deserve the worst, but life goes well for them.
If they do well, they don't mess with others.
Reporting these attacks is very difficult, right?
It is not that complicated.
The same account usually has multiple accounts associated with a single email.
The Police are doing a great job in this regard.
Social networks like Instagram and Twitter have more and more filters.
But sometimes I like to make it public so they see that it is not always free.
If you're not going to say something that builds, don't say it.
Contribute or set aside.
Your nude photo in the snow was also highly commented on.
For me it was an artistic photo, period.
I was not looking to open a controversy about whether the woman does it, all the comments are "dirty" ... And if a man does it, they are "how funny you are and how good you are!".
He didn't want to open that melon.
I am not looking for polemics.
Come to me.
I was just sitting in my house meditating naked and I thought: "It would be super nice to meditate while it is snowing in the garden!"
I took the photo with a tripod and a timer in the most shabby way.
It gave me a very nice feeling.
You can't see anything in that photo.
I have uploaded other more uploaded photos of all.
I didn't think it was going to get messy.
For me it was poetry.
Many women condemn that you make a feminist speech, but then that your clothing encourages female stereotypes.
Is it really all for a piece of cloth or is it the eyes you look with?
I love my body.
It is the one I have, it is the one I love, the one I care for, the one I pamper.
I do not hide.
I work a lot on it inside and out.
I take care of my diet.
I am better than ever.
I look divine.
I have taught cellulite and stretch marks, but I don't care.
Thanks to him, I will be able to live a long time.
It is a body, both mine and yours as well as everyone's, which is perfect.
The imperfections and machismo are in the eyes in which they look, not in me.
Nobody forces me to wear one clothes or another.
I decide.
You are going to present 'Love Island', a kind of 'The island of temptations'.
What is it about?
It is a format that is having great success in other countries.
The difference with 'La Isla' is that here they are all single and no one is fooling anyone.
Do you like 'The Island of Temptations' or does it exploit the lowest instincts of the human being?
It's entertainment and that's it.
Not hurt anyone.
Those who are there are because they want to be and are having very good audiences.
People endorse it and like to see this type of content.
Hopefully mine will also pass.
What shows would you remove from television?
None.
What I want is more entertainment programs and contests and if I can present them, all the better.
I've been asking for a format for myself for a long time.
With this program, the butterflies and the desire to eat the world have returned.
Why don't presenters with a long career like you or Nuria Roca have their own program?
The bosses are the ones who rule and the ones who decide.
I suppose this is also the whiting that bites its tail.
Is the program consumed more with a male figure or as the male figure is already consumed more?
They should open their minds and let totally valid women present.
If you see the grill, there are not so many women.
Little by little, that will change.
Is loyalty overrated?
Not for me.
Being faithful and being loyal to your principles and the people you love is basic.
For me they are the two most important things, loyalty and fidelity.
What things do you no longer want to fight?
I always say that I no longer fight and right away, I go in.
I try to be a more moderate Pedroche, more measured and calm and who thinks all things.
It is true that I meditate every day.
I'm doing a challenge and I've been meditating for 21 days in a row.
What challenge is it?
I have marked it myself.
I've been meditating for four years, but when I wanted to.
Meditate has to be every day and take five or ten minutes to do it.
I am learning a lot.
I have decided to get serious and do it every day.
It takes a lot of discipline, right?
I am a very good student in practically everything.
I like things to be perfect.
I am very organizing.
I like to see how I complete things.
As with the menstrual cup.
I want it to go well.
Well, I take it off and put it on 100 times until I say: "Now I just understood."
Meditation is something else.
The mind is designed to run away and escape.
Controlling it is very complicated.
Closing your eyes, breathing, even for four minutes, totally changes your attitude.
How?
I try to be more patient.
When I get angry, I think why should I speak badly to that person.
For example, I get angry with my mother.
We are arguing every day because I am an only child.
I am quite spoiled.
But before we argued more and worse.
Now I let her speak and say to her: "But mommy, do you love me?"
"What else in life," she answers angrily.
"Then let's stop arguing."
The pandemic has also had to teach us things.
That tomorrow we may not be here.
What is the failure you have learned the most from?
I don't like to take things as failures.
I have gotten into many controversies, but you learn from everything.
Sometimes I sit down to talk to journalists and when it passes for a while, I think they are my friends.
I think anything goes and I make jokes.
While it is being recorded, we are in an interview, there are jokes that do not have to be done anywhere.
We are on our way to the fourth wave of the coronavirus and people are increasingly discouraged.
What advice would you give them?
Everything comes out.
It's bullshit.
I'm sad and depressed because this sucks.
The important thing is the attitude.
The path of life is very long and in it we do not make most of the decisions.
Obstacles are coming, but what you do decide is the attitude.
It can really upset me that there is this fucking pandemic and that I cannot travel or be with my parents.
But if I'm angry all the time, I'm going to be bitter.
Breathe and turn the tortilla.
How do you do it?
Now you spend more time at home, then take the course you've always wanted to do, learn to cook, read ... Watch a series, which is what happened to me with 'This is us'.
I love that series.
If outside of the pandemic they tell you that you have to see that series that is five seasons and that each season is 20 episodes, you don't have time.
And all of a sudden you come across a wonderful series.
It's just that I get goose bumps.
I'm so in love with Jack.
You put yourself in their shoes all the time.
When the fifth season ended, I thought: What will become of my life now?
It is that you are missing a piece.
That had only happened to me with Jane the Virgin.
I have not seen that.
Very good.
It is a comedy, which also has a lot of drama.
A Miami soap opera roll.
You have to turn things around.
If it hadn't been for the pandemic, I wouldn't have spent so much time with David.
He always asked to spend more time with him.
It's a bitch that the hotel business is closing, but I've spent more time with my husband.
How are you living the crisis in the hospitality industry?
I hope you help them.
In Spain, the tourism sector is fundamental.
We need to help hoteliers who are really having a hard time.
I'm not going to ask for help for myself, because things are going well for us.
We have reinvented ourselves and we have invented the Goxo.
But not everyone has that ability to reinvent themselves.
We will eventually go out, but what about the bass bar in my house?
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