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The influencer, fashion entrepreneur and journalist Paula Ordovás (38) received the Fearless magazine award on Tuesday, opening up on the channel, as she had never done before: she confessed for the first time and before all those attending the gala of the aforementioned medium that she suffered sexual abuse during her childhood.

After years of therapy, she ended up understanding what happened to her when she was just a helpless child: "I had been abused by the person who was in charge of taking care of me," she said upon receiving the Influencer with Values Award. Precisely what Ordovás wanted to achieve last night with this confession is to help people who have gone through the same situation.

A child does not understand that he is subjected to a series of behaviors and scenes that are not normal and that generates a trauma in you

"People close to me, my close friends and my husband knew it. But saying it out loud has been for me a liberation and a very big step," he told Esradio-Libertad Digital after the speech.

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He has also said that the sexual abuse occurred from the age of four to six. And it didn't end there. He relived another similar episode in adolescence. "A married couple who was taking care of us at home abused me. I was very young and didn't understand anything. And since the mind is wise, it ends up erasing many memories from our head. Only later, when I started treating myself psychologically, have I been aware of everything. Even what I had erased from my mind, "moves the aforementioned media.

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The influencer has said that she came to normalize "situations that were not normal." Something very common. "In the end a child who is not trained does not understand that he is subjected to a series of behaviors and scenes that are not normal and that generates a trauma in you ... And on top of that, you have feelings of guilt. They make you feel like this: 'You can't tell this, it's wrong,' and a four-year-old girl, which is the age at which I started suffering from this, can't defend herself."

MAKING DEPRESSION VISIBLE

280 million people worldwide suffer from depression, almost 4 percent of the population, according to the latest study published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2022. More and more influencers are giving voice to their mental health problems but a utopian world continues to be drawn in social networks.

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Ordovás in reference to these criticisms has been clear: "There are many people behind the screen who accuse me of being unreal, of having three companies, dressing up, doing marathons, recording content, having my perfect house and adoring my husband. What I show is real, I am like that. But in the bad I'm also like that."

"It is precisely that search for perfection that led me to have depression in the last three years, perhaps to flee, then unconsciously, from all the imperfection in which I had lived," the influencer told Esradio hours after her speech.

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