Ivonne Montero became the winner of the Telemundo reality show, The House of Celebrities 2whose prize was 200 thousand dollars. This triumph meant for the Mexican actressin addition to a great victory, a door to be able to help with the surgeries that her little daughter, Antonella, needs.
In the first episodes of the reality show, the famous Mexican actress had expressed her concern for her daughter, who was born with a complex anomaly and needs to undergo further operationsso Ivonne’s main objective was always to get the money for Antonella.
“She was born with both arteries in a single ventricle, so she does not oxygenate well. The pulmonary artery was very narrow, so they had to widen it, fix everything with patches, that is, restructure the heart,” Montero said during his stay at the mansion.
The little girl underwent her first surgery when she was just 9 months old. “They opened and connected an artery so that she could make that ventricle that had no artery work,” said Ivonne. Later, at the age of 2, the girl had an open heart operationat that moment they experienced moments of anguish because everything got complicated.
“And in that surgery he had 5 surgeries, let’s say that in a single week he went into the operating room 5 times to try to save his life. They were very complicated moments”, commented the actress in an interview with the program The minute that changed my destiny.
In fact, such was the situation that the same actress commented to her former classmates The House of Celebrities 2 that he prayed a lot for his daughter to emerge victorious from surgery. “I remember that she was so serious that I couldn’t tell my parents how serious she was. I only asked God: Don’t take it away from me,” Montero said through tears.
Although the girl has managed to cope with life with the disease, Ivonne assured that she needs more surgeries so that she is completely healthy.
“Now in September they are going to do studies to see if she is already a candidate… At the moment in which they enlarged the pulmonary artery, the three valves, which are the ones that open and close inside, fell short, so it has a murmur, but it has a strong murmur and that is what they have to correct now”, Ivonne asserted in the reality show.
On the other hand, The actress went on to explain that the cyst on the girl’s nose is not extended and is only a matter of aestheticsso the same 9-year-old girl told him that she would not like to fix it.
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