Such were the loves of Maria Jungner’s life – 2024-03-05 05:05:01

by Maria Jungner, 50, life could hold many loves. The TV announcer’s death was reported on Sunday, March 3.

Maria’s first Spouse was a French-born childhood friend. The union signed in 1999 ended in separation seven years later.

Maria had two children from the union, daughters Rebecca and Joanna.

– I started the relationship that led to my first marriage in my twenties, when I was still a child myself. I missed my youth. With the first union, I disappeared to Karjaa with my husband for years. I had a huge desire to become a mother, Maria said in an interview with Me Naisten in 2023.

Around the same time Maria was going through the divorce process, one Mikael Jungner moved out her and her then spouse Jenni Rousu-Jungnerin from a shared home. Soon the television announcer fell in love with Yle’s CEO.

The relationship between Mikael Jungner and Maria Matthes started as a workplace romance. ATTE KAJOVA

Love

Maria and Mikael had met for the first time in early 2006 at a fair. At that time, no more than a few words were exchanged, but in the fall, at Yle’s 80th anniversary party, Mikael seized the opportunity.

– Of course I was talking about something when Maria and her friends walked by. Our eyes met, and for some reason that I still don’t understand, I reached out and stopped Maria, Mikael described in the 2010 Outolinin his book.

The two quickly moved on to painful topics in their discussions. In the book, Mikael describes Maria as his soul sister.

Even though things warmed up, Mikael was reserved about his feelings.

– Something moved in my soul, because while drinking coffee I told Maria decisively that I would never fall in love with her. A couple of hours later we kissed, a week later I confessed my love and a month later we lived in a shared apartment, Mikael described in his book.

The relationship between Maria Matthes and Mikael Jungner was widely reported. The couple declared their love to the media. After half a year of dating, Mikael officially filed for divorce.

Quick wedding

In August 2007, Mikael announced his intention to get married in an interview with the magazine My Suomi.

– We will get married if I gather enough courage to propose and if Maria answers in the affirmative, Mikael said at the time.

According to Mikaeli, proposing to Maria was a scarier idea than receiving the letter from Yleisradio’s CEO.

However, some courage was found. The wedding plans had time to take a backseat when Maria fell ill with an intestinal infection during the party. The bride spent the eve of the wedding in hospital examinations.

The wedding vows were sworn on December 8, 2007 in the German Church of Helsinki. Two days earlier, the couple represented together at Linna’s party.

Maria got dressed Johanna Lattin to design a champagne gold colored wedding dress.

In the summer of 2009, Mikael made a love video for his wife and uploaded it to the internet. For the video, Mikael had compiled videos of the couple’s evening parties and newspaper headlines. In the video, Mikael summed up the couple’s story: the workplace romance deepened into love.

In 2010, Mikael moved from the position of Yleisradio’s CEO to SDP’s party secretary. Maria, who was influential in the Espoo city council at the time, said that she herself dreamed of joining national politics, but ended up burying her dream for the time being. Now it was Mikael’s turn.

– In a relationship, two people cannot strive for such responsible tasks as the work of a member of parliament requires, at least when the children are still this young, Maria told Ilta-Sanom in 2010.

Ero

The married years were stormy. At some point, love stopped working.

The couple filed for divorce together in November 2012, which took effect the following summer. Despite the breakup, both Maria and Mikael spoke warmly of each other in public.

– At the moment I am not in a relationship, but Mikael is an absolute great love for me, and I wouldn’t give anything away for that love, Maria told Me Nais in the spring of 2013.

In the spring of 2014, Maria told Iltalehte that after the breakup she experienced crushing sadness and a sense of shame that she had failed again.

In the summer of 2014, it was reported that the couple had gotten back together. Soon, Maria and Mikael went their separate ways again.

New relationships

Two divorces did not mean that Maria had given up on love. In the years after the divorce, Maria was engaged to a photographer Andreas Janettin with. Andreas proposed to Maria on her birthday trip in Paris. The relationship ended in separation after a year of dating and four months of engagement in 2015.

In 2017, Maria dated a Finnish businessman who worked in a Swiss private bank and later a film director Kjell Lagerroosin with.

At the beginning of 2020, love was in full swing, again in Paris. The new gold was French Sebastien. When Corona struck, Sebastian moved to Maria in Finland for a couple of months. The relationship ended in divorce in October 2020.

– There was nothing dramatic about it, but it is difficult to maintain a relationship between two countries. It was an impossible equation, Maria told Seiska in April 2021.

In 2022, Maria said in an interview with Iltalehti that she is open to new love. At that time, she lived alone with her younger daughter.

– I think the word single is completely absurd when talking about an almost 50-year-old, twice-married mother of two children. I think being single is wild and free. I don’t feel that I am either, Maria said at the time.

In 2023, Maria told Me Nais that she is on good terms with all her ex-husbands. He called Mikael one of his best friends.

– For a long time I had the idea that I must always be in a relationship or married. Little by little, the belief that life is only good when I find a wonderful man has faded away. I understand that I have to be the most dear to myself. I already have all the ingredients for a good life, and I don’t need to get them from outside, Maria told Me Nais last year.