“I am happy to be alive and that cancer has not needed more aggressive treatments, although the operation was. After four months it continues to hurt, but living such an experience makes you minimize everything, on the one hand, and take it to its fair measure, ”he said MILLENNIUM María Fernanda Ampuero (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1976), who due to her illness canceled her visit to Mexico.
The writer looks happy after overcoming evil cancer that prevented her from continuing her life for a while; In a crisis where she was accompanied by her mother and a “tribe” of people in Spain that helped her in a country that is not theirs.
“It is bittersweet. It makes you think, on the one hand, how fragile we are, in what could be happening inside our bodies without knowing it, and it makes you much more aware of your body. I would present visceral in the Fila Guadalajara and suddenly they tell me that I have an uterus cancer and it was unlikely; I have a text called ‘uterus’ in the book, ”he added.
In addition, he revealed that It also affected him in the issue of motherhood, because the whole process of cancer in the uterus It is carried out in obstetrics gynecology, where pregnant women are.
“I lived things like going to make me a 3D ultrasound with a lot of pregnant women and it was very rare because I would have wanted to do it to see a baby, and it was like saying: ‘Well, the possibility of gesturing that is, goodbye’; it is not the end of that duel, this duel will never end.”
Visceral, a war cry
María Fernanda Ampuero’s most recent book is called Visceral (foam pages)where, from four vital organs (lungs, heart, intestines and uterus), it plays issues such as violence against women, the ultra -raised body, mental health, obesity, childhood, depression, feminism and motherhood, in a crude and direct way where nothing is stored.
“For me it was important to publish this book, because there are many kids, young women, my age or older, who have never forgiven not being perfect, something that is absurd, and accept domestic abuse, family violence or whatever, because they feel they are not worthy of anything better and then you spend your life hating you, saying: “I am vague, careless, a monster, I don’t love myself” … and that has to change, because women are very, very valuable, “said the author.
For María Fernanda Ampuero is crazy that “we normalize that people mutilate a stomach piece or that people take drugs or laxatives to be thin.” So, women all our life make super restrictive diets. I think we have a culture where we teach us some things that we will never use in life, but they don’t teach us to love ourselves. ”
Despite the issues that they have and that have caused many women to approach the writer, the interviewee denied that Visceral is a self -help book.
“I am not a self -help author, but what I have seen at this time is that there are many people suffering from this stupidity. Basically, you spend your life by giving money to the industry that lives from beauty, of thinness, of impossible things, you suffer, suffer and then you die.”
And he added: “I suffered a lot writing the book, I do not think I healed my wounds, it is more, to say: ‘I have these wounds’ and hopefully help someone, because the book is more about what it means to grow as a woman and realize that you are able to do whatever it is: trucking, astronaut or writer, whatever you want. Dignify the feelings of childhood and adolescence.
On the raw and powerful form in which each story faces, he commented: “Visceral is a cry of war and that is why there are things that cannot be counted softly; there are very hard parts of the book, such as that of rape when I am an adult, which is very beast, but if I use euphemisms or vagueness, I am being a bit complicit in the usual speech of blaming the victim.”
But one of Visceral’s most important parts is that it is a book above all that systematic process where women do not let them enjoy.
“You are fat, you have to eat lettuce. You are not married, you cannot have sex; if you leave the norm, we are going to punish you and then the thing of being a desiring woman, of being a young woman who does not have a stable partner, because you are committed to endure you. Which that does not happen to you. You, if you have a blind appointment with someone, do not have to send your friends the location in case you kill them. We are sending messages where we are and is scary, ”said the author.
María Fernanda Ampuero said that it is very important that parents or adults “That they mark your life they tell you that you are valuable for many more reasons than your body, because you are brave, empathetic and intelligent; that will prevent you from being victim of fools who give our hearts, life and our soul.”
Finally, the writer commented that, after her recovery, she worked as an editor and advising different writers, while with the Everand platform she recorded the visceral audiobook, among other works.
“I am freelance, you have to do everything to survive. I am writing a half strange thing, of terror, so that it is an enlightened and good book; there is always the theme of a novel, but I do not know, maybe I just be a storyteller, we’ll see.”
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