13 sept. 2024 – 17:20 hrs.
Julia Vial Fourteen years ago, she became a mother with her ex-husband, film critic Leopoldo Muñoz, to Julia, a teenager who was born with Down syndrome. In a recent interview, the journalist revealed how she reacted when she learned of her first-born’s diagnosis.
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An expected daughter
The journalist and her ex-husband, Leopoldo, were married for seven years before making the decision to expand their family. It was not easy and they had to resort to science, specifically, in vitro fertilization to achieve it.
After several attempts, they managed to conceive Julia, Vial recalled in a Canal 13 program. While she was pregnant, on a trip to Cuba, a woman, to whom she had not told her pregnancy status, found out that she was expecting a baby and also that she had a way of knowing if she had Down syndrome. “I didn’t know what to say,” she recalled.
Upon arriving in Chile, she went to the doctor and was told that her daughter had a disease. “The doctor did an ultrasound and told me ‘yes, the baby has trisomy. Pray it’s Down’and leaves. It was like a bucket of cold water, “I was 32 years old and we never put ourselves in that situation. I left that consultation crying, not understanding anything, alone, I was like knocked out, like someone hit me with a punch,” she confessed.
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The suspicions were confirmed and when Julia found out, she could not contain her grief, spending four whole days crying.I would wake up with my face covered in dirt, go to work, do the program as if nothing had happened, and come home to cry.”he recalled.
Fortunately, her family managed to open her eyes and show her that her daughter would not be a problem. “They told me, ‘So what? What’s the point? What matters is that you’re pregnant, let’s get out the champagne.’ That’s when I realized that I was just giving it my all. And since then I started to think, investigate and see how to make my daughter as happy as possible, as independent as possible and the best person possible. That’s when another Julia started, another pregnancy, another process,” she said.
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