“That’s how you sometimes get to the moon”, overcoming a mountain of failures. With these words and an illustration of the cartoonist René Merino shared on social networks, the journalist Sara Carbonero in a nutshell what is seen as your current emotional present, a phase of renovation in which the Spaniards shine and have started several projects after overcoming cancer and after his divorce from Spanish ex-goalkeeper Iker Casillas.
Based in Madrid after her five-year residency in Porto, Portugal, the 37-year-old model has just signed her divorce and today enjoys several getaways to paradisiacal destinations. After visiting dream spots along the coast of Almería or the Canary Islands, the presenter arrived in Morocco for several photo productions for her fashion company Slow Love, which she created five years ago with her partner and friend Isabel Jiménez. And although the brand was sold to the Tendam group, with a strong presence in the Spanish market, they continue to have creative control over the collections, in which the style that made Carbonero the fashion icon in Spain is present.
“It is a very good time. I want it all. I’m signing up for a blitz! There are times when we are in a stage that is more inward-looking and in others now, when we are exploding more. Let’s see how long it takes, ”the journalist said in an interview with the newspaper El País this week.
Along with caring for her children, Martín, 7, and Lucas, 4, the fruit of a ten-year relationship with the footballer, the communicator is combining her textile project with a new phase as co-host of the program Let the dance continue, by Radio Marca. In this space, the presenter talks to different personalities of her country’s music and culture and, among her guests, the actresses Sara Sálamo and Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, the singer-songwriter India Martínez and the humorist, cartoonist and actor Joaquín Reyes have recently passed on ., who this week shared his desire to get to know Argentina, “the home of Perito Moreno and Messi.” “I started as an intern at Radio Marca 15 years ago. Going back was a bit crazy, a colleague suggested to me. In the same vein and ‘I sign up for everything’ I saw that Radio Marca was the place because it was home. I don’t want stress. I enjoy going back to a familiar place as a child, ”the journalist told the Spanish newspaper.
How does Sara Carbonero combine her work and her personal efforts with the care of her children? ‘Like so many women. And probably with luck because I have help at home. Also take away hours of sleep; although now I take better care of myself and sleep is important. What happens is what I do is visible, but it’s the same thing that happens to any woman who works. I succeed! He revealed.
While nowadays it turned out that Iker Casillas has started a new life in a luxury apartment of 300 square meters in an exclusive urbanization near the former marital residence, in the city of La Finca, in Madrid, Carbonero is the protagonist of an intense activity, both in real life and in the virtual world, where he shares profound reflections on love and existence.
New times for love?
“I see so many colors and all my senses will explode loving you so much,” reads the excerpt from Mon Laferte’s song “Complete Love”, which Carbonero chose this week to share on networks within a series of publications with a similar show.
“These are atypical times, but in the middle of winter I finally learned that an invincible summer lived in me,” he wrote on his Instagram account last Wednesday, citing Albert Camus to celebrate International Kiss Day, also with loving postcards. to celebrate.
“If the only script is good attitude, when authenticity comes out, when you surround yourself with a team that becomes family. When all this happens, projects are born that are truly worthwhile. This’ pending trip ‘provides a lot of laughter and unforgettable moments’, the presenter also wrote together with a post about the promotion of her new clothing collection.
“Let’s see if life just starts laughing and we are looking for other explanations here,” the model also thought on the same social network at the end of March, two weeks after the official announcement of her divorce from the former Real. Madrid player.
It was then that the couple shared a joint statement in which, in Sara’s case, they said, “Both Iker and I are immensely proud of the family that we are and the fact that we have been able to share a love that has fulfilled us. happiness during all those years of association. Today, our love as a couple travels in different but not distant ways, as we will continue together in the wonderful task of remaining devoted parents, as we have done so far. It is a very thoughtful decision that we have taken in concert, ”he said on March 12.
A day later, the journalist posted an image of her playing music, accompanied by a fragment of a song from the Chambao group: “I fall in love with life …”, Carbonero wrote, replicating the beginning of the song’s lyrics, which she left behind. incomplete, and that continues with a: “… although it hurts at times.”
The game seems to have been left behind for the Spanish woman, who told El País newspaper her wish that the expected summer in the Northern Hemisphere and some relaxation from the pandemic in her country will keep her enjoying the coming months. heat of new and promising “weekend getaways, the sea and concerts”.
The divorce agreement and a millionaire’s estate
Sara Carbonero and Iker Casillas reached a friendly agreement after they broke up and the ex-archer left the marital home, but he settled very close to be present in his children’s daily lives. According to the press of his country, the athlete opened a luxury apartment with four bedrooms, six terraces and a swimming pool, worth more than 1,700,000 euros and located near the house where his ex lives with his two children, to whom each morning leads to school.
According to Diez minutos magazine, the ex-partner signed the divorce papers by mutual agreement before the courts of Pozuelo de Alarcón on April 6. The journalist was left with custody of the children and Casillas would bear the cost of their education under a flexible visiting regime that allows her to visit them whenever she wants.
Casillas, who retired in Porto de Portugal after heart problems, is said to have assets worth over 350 million euros, with real estate and businesses as his investments. It has four companies relocating approximately 25 million euros in addition to huge equity in Spain for real estate investments.
Carbonero, for its part, is also a millionaire’s creditor, albeit on a smaller scale. His main earnings include that of his company Memories of South Africa SL, which he founded in 2010, after covering the World Cup where he started his relationship with Iker Casillas, and his fashion company Slow Love.
Before they met, they were both recognized professionals, she in the media and he in football. The infatuation was immediate. The year was 2010 and Carbonero should have covered the news from Real Madrid and the Spanish national team. “Then we started messaging each other and one day, without realizing it, the love story is running,” Casillas said in an interview published in El Español.
The sentimental relationship began to take hold and became official with a kiss in front of the cameras that made history at the World Cup in South Africa. In January 2014, the couple’s first child, Martín, was born, after which rumors arose of a secret and intimate wedding in Boadilla del Monte. Two years later, the family moved from Spain to Portugal when he was signed by FC Porto. Soon after, they announced they were expecting their second child, Lucas, who was born in June 2015.
In May 2019, Casillas was training in the facilities of Porto when he developed chest pain and was taken to a hospital. He had had a heart attack. Fortunately, everything could be checked and the football player was fired. A few days later, bad news shocked the couple again. On May 21, Carbonero announced on his social networks that he had been detected malignant tumor of the ovaries and that he had already undergone surgery: “We caught him on time but I have a few more months of struggle while I follow the corresponding treatment. I’m calm and confident that everything will be fine, ”she said.
The family returned to Madrid in December 2020. Casillas started working at the Real Madrid Foundation as a deputy to the general manager and the journalist returned to her origins, Radio Marca, resuming her presence as the image of brands and fashion entrepreneur she upholds today.
Last February, Carbonero had to be admitted to a clinic for complications arising from the ovarian cancer diagnosed in 2019. Once recovered, the model returned to the family home. A few weeks later, Iker and Sara announced their breakup and a few days later certain rumors pointed to the existence of a third party, Sara Denez, who publicly denied these claims.
From then on, Carbonero and Casillas showed that they maintained a good relationship in view of some crossed messages dedicated on social networks, on one occasion on the occasion of Father’s Day in Spain or through certain compliments that the ex-footballer dedicated to who was his married for ten years in some of his publications. Everything seems to indicate that the duel has been overcome and that both are ready to start a new life.