She is a model, mother of three children, wife of Real Mallorca footballer Dani Rodríguez and has two hearts beating in her chest: the Spanish Cristina Word Born in Gelsenkirchen, she lived in Germany until she was fourteen before returning to her southern European homeland. She sympathises equally with both countries, as she herself says, and knows the advantages and disadvantages of both from personal experience.
“My grandmother emigrated to Germany when she was young. She had nine children in total and was looking for work, because the economic situation in Spain was not good at that time,” explains Cristina Palavra, whose mother is Spanish and whose father is Croatian. He was the third generation to grow up in Germany.: “My childhood was great, I had a great time,” recalls the 35-year-old, who seems to blossom emotionally when she starts talking about her German background. Although she finds it easier to keep the conversation going in her native Spanish, she also interjects snippets of German. “My parents still live in Gelsenkirchen. That’s why I fly to Germany twice a year to visit them and my cousins,” explains the influencer (@cristi_palavra14).
This year, on June 29, he married the love of her life, the footballer Dani Rodríguezcaptain of RCD Mallorca. Other teammates and friends of Rodríguez, such as striker Vedat Muriqi, Uruguayan Giovanni González and Slovakian defender Martin Valjent, were also invited to the magnificent ceremony in Mallorca Cathedral, to which the bride and groom arrived in a Rolls-Royce. As a surprise, Cristina Palavra performed a flamenco dance for her husband at the private ceremony.
The young couple has three children: two boys aged 12 and 6 and a girl aged 4. When they travel to the Ruhr area, the whole family always goes. “Especially the public playgrounds, with their swings, seesaws and slides. These are facilities and play equipment that I miss here on the island,” she says. Dani Rodríguez also speaks highly of Germany, as Palavra confirms. It is not only the country’s typical beer that appeals to the footballer, other aspects have also seemed very positive to the couple. “We love German culture, it is so clean and tidy there,” she says.
“We also have three four-legged friends and we have seen that in Germany there are free bags for dog waste in public places. We need something like that in Mallorca too,” she says. “The bottle deposit system is also great. My mother keeps her used mineral water bottles and always gets 20 euros back this way,” she says.
By the way, Palavra began her modeling career in 2006 She was a contestant on the reality TV show “Supermodel”, the Spanish equivalent of Heidi Klum’s “Germany’s Next Topmodel”. She also won first place in the Miss Illes Balears beauty pageant in 2007, which opened many doors for her in the world of fashion and advertising. She was also seen on German channels, appearing in a video for pop singer Mark Medlock. “At first I put my career on the back burner in favour of Dani and the children’s upbringing, and now I want to push it forward,” says the cheerful young woman from southern Europe. “Whenever I can, I support my husband at the stadium and try to send him positive energy at the games. That goes down well with football fans too. We often hear that we are a fairytale family.”
Currently, Palavra He often travels between Mallorca and Madrid to work on his latest project“I recently completed a three-year fashion design course and now I want to launch my own handbag brand,” says the entrepreneur. At the same time, the model takes part in photo shoots and works on her health card. To keep fit, Palavra does a lot of sports and follows a diet, which is definitely noticeable in her figure.
