Love, Career, and Motherhood: Claudia Gerini's Life Journey

"The love for Linda and Rosa, my two daughters, is a giant push to give my best at work and as a person". And the love for Claudia Gerini was fundamental in her life. Essential. Also that of a couple. "I never have an ideal man in mind. For me, love is an entity that catches you, you don't choose it, it comes and takes you. It presents itself not when you want it but when you are ready to welcome it, if you are not distracted and you are there to tie your shoe. When I hear people say: I don't know if I love him, I say: then, it's not love; if you love, you know it...". In the Corriere della Sera, in the interview with Candida Morvillo, the actress however tells that even she has had stories where she thought it was love and instead it was a carriage: "However, since I was a girl, I have been guided by the passion of my work and this has allowed me to keep myself away from situations that could make me suffer". Then again: "Self-love has strengthened by becoming a mother, with the protection of the nucleus, being in a larger life project, but I have never been self-destructive. I have always been careful not to hurt myself, perhaps because I have always been used to having a professional responsibility". And "already then, if I saw jealousy, I would run away immediately. No one could tell me not to do this or that, nor could it happen that I loved someone so much that I gave up a job opportunity for him. I have never put my fulfillment behind any love. And I could not love a man who does not have the pleasure of seeing me fulfilled. In fact, I have the radar to avoid narcissists and egocentrics". Her first boyfriend at 16, "my buddy who then led me into the magical world of physical love". She had a relationship with Gianni Boncompagni ("The age difference ends up feeling in the long run"), then a flirt with Carlo Verdone "but at 25, I had a bit of a disordered life just like Iris Blonde. I wanted to travel, dance at the Dc10 in Ibiza, he was in a more reflective phase. But we have always been friends and we still are". Then the fathers of her two daughters. On the one hand Alessandro Enginoli a manager in a suit and tie, on the other Federico Zampaglione an artist. "Two very distant planets. They were encounters of souls that brought out something that I could not help but live. Then, you make choices, but the important thing is to remain friends, you have to love the fathers of your children and I always remember what I fell in love with in them". Has Claudia Gerini ever been betrayed? She says no, she doesn't know. And instead she knows very well that she has done it: "I admit it. It happened when love had deflated a bit, in fact, after, we broke up". But today "I could never betray and never forgive...". Because today the actress's heart, who has more than 70 films in her career, beats again... Love has no age and today "I am in a very happy and fulfilling relationship".