Aruca Fernández-Vega: “Being a young lady doesn't suit me”

Only because of her daughter has the Asturian broken up Aruca Fernandez-Vegagranddaughter of the ophthalmologist Luis Fernandez-Vega and wife of Emilio Aragonhis proverbial discretion. Macarena Aragon and his mother have stood before the cameras and talked about family and fame in the magazine “Vanity Fair” to advertise the firm LexDeux, of the Madrid couturier Juanma Capon, with which the young woman, who studied Fashion at the Camilo José Cela University and completed a master's degree in styling at the Marangoni Institute in Milan, collaborates. Aruca, who acts as godmother of the firm, reveals things like she has never done before, talking about her courtship with Emilio Aragón, her relationship with fame and her recent love for the mountains.

“We have been very reserved. We have never wanted to give any interviews. Not even when my children were born. 'We pay you,' they told me. No. I want to have my private life,” says Aruca, married to the actor and producer for 35 years. The Asturian woman remembers her first encounter with the press, in the midst of the success of the series “Family Doctor”, in which her husband starred with Lydia Bosch. “I couldn't take it anymore. We moved and the door was filled with paparazzi. I had to be behind the fence, half hidden, giving directions to the waiters. What do people care about the table I have in my living room?” , account.

To escape that fame, the family went to live in Boston with their children, and the paparazzi followed them there. “The word spread that we had family problems and they were watching us for a month, but we didn't see anyone. We found out when we found a note in the mailbox at home congratulating us on the family we had. They left. They gave us impossible,” he comments.

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Aruca Fernández-Vega says that the friendship between the two families, the Fernández-Vega and the Aragón, came from a long time ago. “When Miliki settled in Spain with his family, my grandfather hired them,” he says. “My uncle Manolo He fell in love with Rita, Emilio's sister”, and he played the piano at their wedding. Aruca and Emilio met there for the first time, although she doesn't even remember. “Then I saw photos. She had long hair and a beard. She looked like Jesus Christ,” she jokes.

When they started dating, she was 16 years old and he was 17. “It was very fun. He was fooling around all day. He was driving along Castellana, he got out and started dancing with the music at full volume. I thought: 'This one is like a cricket,'” recalls Aruca Fernández-Vega. During their years of courtship, Emilio took Aruca to eat paella in San Javier, in Murcia, by plane, because he already had a commercial pilot's title at that time.

Aruca Fernández-Vega talks about her tastes in fashion. “I always go flat, but here I seem Gasoline“, she comments during the posing session. “Looking like a lady doesn't suit me,” she admits. Aruca runs between eight and ten kilometers a day, despite being a chain smoker. She also likes the mountains, and has climbed the Kilimanjaro, Tubqal and Kenya. Her children consider her a woman of character. “At home we call her Lieutenant Aruca,” says her daughter Maca.

The young woman remembers her grandfather Miliki with an anecdote related to his destiny in fashion. “She always told that one time we were walking through London and I was stunned looking at a pink dress in a shop window,” a story that ended with her grandfather buying the dress for her granddaughter. Maca Aragón remembers the success of “Family Doctor”: “We watched the episodes together at home and when she kissed Lydia Bosch It was like, 'Dad, what are you doing?' “she says.

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The passion for family is shared, Maca has five points tattooed on her arm that represent her parents and siblings; the word “ohana,” which means “family” in Hawaiian, and his grandfather Miliki's signature, which all cousins carry.