Mara Venier: “I am fat? Those who insult are almost painful”

“When I have it, I will be there”. Thus comments, in La Stampa, Mara Venier, the exchange of jokes via social with two ladies who told her to cut their hair and go on a diet and to which the presenter responded in kind, sending them to that country. His response sparked a chorus of interventions in his favor, with phrases like “Mara you are all of us”, “you are a myth” and so on. “I can’t stand the obsession of you’re old anymore, you’re fat, you have long hair – explains Venier – I honestly don’t have many haters, but at a certain point everything becomes unpleasant and you know why? Because women are not too young to write these things . I have not been well for three months, I have a damaged nerve, I am taking drugs, I spent an uphill summer with my husband. mojito, and here comes the comment ‘cut your hair because you are old’. It hurt me, but only for a moment, then I said to myself, what do you want? punishment, they are poor things “.” If you go and see – continues Venier, who will start again on 19 September with the conduct of ‘Domenica In’ – it is always women who have gone through menopause to offend on the subject. Offenses do not come to you from the girls, who actually adore Aunt Mara. But I at my age have nothing to lose, so I went on the attack and replied, but why do you have to break me on the photo with my husband, but why? Then a trashy site ran it and it got a big prominence with lots of funny comments in my defense and the consequence was another attack. One wrote to me ‘don’t drink and go on a diet’, I replied to her too and I must say that there was an ovation. Why are women offending? I don’t know, but they are women. In my opinion they are unhappy women because it is unhappiness that leads to being so resentful towards others. One even wrote to me: ‘But how, with the paresis that you have had you drink?’. Except I didn’t have any paresis but a facial nerve injury, are we kidding? Do you even bring up health to attack a person? “.” I think that everything starts from unhappiness – the presenter continues – I thought, and I said it during Sunday, that with the pandemic we would have become better, more generous with the others. I was wrong. There is a lot of nastiness around. That of hair and age really can not stand anymore. Once upon a time they write about a man. One may say ‘I don’t like you as a presenter’. I accept it if you question my work. But about age and physical appearance it really becomes bullying, like what kids go through. Enough, you broke up with age and overweight. When I turned seventy, I, who as a character have never kept myself so deep inside, said enough is enough, I don’t have to answer anyone for anything. I am proud of my wrinkles, I am against plastic surgery and I would never give myself a bite or a facelift, even out of fear. I live well with my age, I am a fulfilled and happy woman and a grandmother, I do not hide the fact that the greatest joy is being with my grandchildren. “So you don’t feel hurt?” I would like to answer in a vulgar world. Let’s say I don’t see them at all. And sometimes I even enjoyed answering. But I wonder: how would other women feel? “.” And then there is worse, much more serious that circulates on the web – continues Venier – Three weeks ago I received an audio from a doctor who said that I was hospitalized at the Polyclinic because my paresis problem was due to the vaccine. This audio has been around the web. That doctor must be reported, I have never been admitted to the Polyclinic and the vaccine has nothing to do with what I had. These are the things that need to be checked because it is clear that someone falls for it and thinks it is true. Those who insult, on the other hand, almost feel sorry for them, they are poor things. I block a lot of them, but when I have fun I leave them there. But the speech is much more serious. I am an armored woman, but all these insults can hurt and also lead to very serious reactions. So there should also be a minimum of control. My vaccine case is emblematic. There are people who have written to me ‘but why don’t you say it was the vaccine?’. But as a vaccine, I was fine, I had to put an implant and from there started an odyssey that I’m still experiencing. I took lawyers and filed lawsuits because that’s serious. But phrases like ‘you’re old, fat, cut your hair’, well, I don’t care. At seventy, you don’t care. I have never based my work on physical appearance even as a girl, you will never see a sexy photo of me on Instagram, I don’t give a damn about physicality. My success is due to the public’s affection for an aunt. There are not many of my colleagues at seventy who are still here. And I want to say one thing to all women: I have never had so many job offers as in this moment and not only from Rai “.