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The first half of the conversation is constantly interrupted.

"Hey, mom," says one of her daughters.

Ariadne Artiles

(41) apologizes: "If you don't mind, let me calm them down a bit."

For this reason, she has written

Pura vida madre

(Espasa), to share her experience from reality with other mothers.

"I wanted to say what not even our mothers or grandmothers told us because of the taboos of society."

- Wanting them to shut up is being a bad mother?

- It's realistic.

You can love your children very much and make it the hardest thing that has happened to you in your life.

Our grandmothers didn't tell us the hard part.

Today we tell the truth: many times you want them to shut up, you want to put them to bed and for the day to end soon.

But that doesn't mean you don't love your kids.

I also have friends who say that if they were born again they would not be mothers, before it was impossible to hear it.

I would have repeated it a thousand times, even with everything that has happened.

That is why it is important to know the reality.

Hospitalization

Ariadne Artiles became a mother on December 31, 2017, when she welcomed her namesake, little Ariadne, who is now five years old.

Her pregnancy had nothing to do with the next one, that of the twins Julieta and María, who have turned two years old.

"The whole process was very hard (...) My daughters were born very healthy but very small. When they took me to the room

there were two empty cribs

: it was a huge downer. On top of that, I couldn't go see them because I couldn't move from the bed.

bed. The aftermath wasn't any better either. I hadn't recovered yet and I was lactating for both of us," she says.

She has experienced motherhood in all its facets and does not hide any.

abortion

When she was looking for a baby with her husband, José María García Fraile Jr -son of the historic sports journalist José María García and Montse Fraile- she experienced her first abortion.

The canary, years later, tells it from the natural.

"When you talk to other mothers, you realize that miscarriage is almost part of the way. Most of my friends have had an abortion when they were looking for."

But she admits that it was very hard: "It's scary, for me it was terrible.

It's a loss, of illusion, of all the time

looking for it...".

When the good news came in the form of another pregnancy she felt the blow again.

"It was incredible but not as much as it could have been. I was left with the thorn of 'let's see if this time'...".

- Has being a mother made you more fearful?

- It has made me more aware of time, that overwhelms me a bit: when my daughters are 40 years old, I will be almost 80. If I will be a grandmother or not... God will say".

Artiles tries to find the positive in almost everything.

He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and most of his professional career has been immortalized by cameras.

The prestigious photographer, Bruce Weber, signed

her when she was 20 years old

for an Abercrombie & Fitch campaign.

Shortly after she moved to Miami, then New York, London, Milan... her success as a model is undeniable but for the Canary Islands she has been the means to become an entrepreneur.

"I always had a very business mind. Being a model seemed like a good profession to save and have a house soon but I didn't feel that it was 'my thing'."

- It seems that everything is so clear... is there something that escapes you?

- I've always been like this.

I have been very clear about my limits.

- Even as a teenager you were not easily influenced?

not a cigarette?

- When I was little... Sure.

I gave my mother a hard time and many times I didn't make it home.

Yes, he smoked tobacco.

But I left it 15 years ago, which is the best thing I've done in my life without a doubt... she was a hooligan, but then I was great.

Artiles has an itinerary of noes.

She was the only one who did not take off her shirt in the Abercrombie campaign that catapulted her to fame because she is modest.

She also hasn't gone where she didn't want to be.

"When I lived in Miami as a model, they told me a lot that if I didn't go to parties you wouldn't make contacts to work. I thought, 'well, if they want me, they'll call me.'"

BOUNDARIES

Now that the model lives in Las Palmas and her daughters' park is the beach, she is still very clear about what she does not want, despite the fact that it does not always coincide with what is usually done.

Artiles, with 624,000 followers,

has never shown her daughters

' faces on social networks.

"I think her privacy is important. That really scares me... You never know who is behind the screen."

There is also no trace in his Instagram posts of the father of his daughters, José María García Fraile Jr.

"What is taught on social networks is not reality either. I experience them as one more part of my business. People are surprised that he wants to be anonymous when anonymity is a luxury."

The part that does not count on the networks is downloaded in his latest book "written as a diary, so that it can be an accompaniment," defends Artiles.

She also extrapolates to her Instagram account, La Vida Madre, an account-community of women who share her story and anecdotes about motherhood "with a touch of humor."

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