“I’m engaged now, but when we get married I’ll never change my name. I’m not going to give up all the negativity you get with an Arabic name like that. I didn’t wear that name and then part with it. I wear that till the end.”
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Her possible future children will therefore also have to deal with it, the 37-year-old confirmed after presenter Özcan Akyol asked her about it. “Then I say: man upof woman up† It’s possible.”
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It remains to be seen whether there will ever be children. Nadia and her fiancé Geert Broertjes have been working on it for ‘a few years’. It is difficult because Geert has a hereditary form of cancer and the two do not want to pass the gene on to their child. They use embryo selection for that.
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“That is very heavy and very shit,” said the presenter. “Also what you have to undergo as a woman, all those hormones and needles.” Because it’s taking so long, it’s hard to stay optimistic. “It is very exciting, especially because we have wanted children for a long time. I am almost 38, it will become increasingly difficult. The opportunities are not inexhaustible.”
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