Until before October 2023, Antonella Guebara He had never stepped foot in a hospital with his daughter. olivia. The woman spent her days preparing cakes to order, while she took care of her two children and her husband worked outside the house. “We took Oli straight from the garden, from her preschool, to practically live in Garrahan“, he told Teleshow in reference to the treatment being carried out by the 6-year-old girl, who suffers from a rare cancer, known as Wilms tumor which, in his case, is housed in both kidneys.
Since they started the treatment, Antonella has been in each of the 22 chemotherapies that his daughter faced. In those long hours of waiting rooms and televisions on mute, the girl had an epiphanic moment. “I want to be like her” he said, pointing to the screen. That was when Fury, Juliana Scaglione from Big Brother, appeared in his life. The crush was immediate.
Like something out of a Marvel comic, or an episode of Jem and the Holomgramsthe participant of the reality show inspired Oliva with her pink hearts on her bare head, blue eyes framed in a face of lines and shadows in vibrant tones. Some kind of rock star glam in “the most famous house.”
Thus, in the painful process of seeing how her daughter’s hair began to fall out, Antonella discovered how the girl was reflected in the character of a TV show, which was not from Disney, nor from Discovery Kids.
“One day we left intensive care, they took us to a common room and the TV was on. Fury just appeared and my daughter’s hair was falling out. She was shocked. In other words, she was amazed by what she was seeing.”, he recalled. “Oli saw her, he was suddenly happy. She fury gives that image of a strong, powerful woman, completely shaved. Precisely in her innocence, he told me that he wanted to be like her. ‘I’m not going to be bad, I’m not going to cry because I want to look like her’”, he repeated his words.
Since the diagnosis, family life has been dedicated to accompanying the youngest in the house 24 hours a day. Antonella’s pastry business, on pause. Her husband lost his job and Santiago, her oldest son, 14 years old, was left in a routine that she was unaware of until a few months ago. “All this turned our lives upside down and we tried to adapt“, the woman told about the situation they are going through.
From the first day, Olivia continues her treatment at the Garrahan Hospital, but the expenses are not small. “She is undergoing a treatment that, thank God, is covered by the institution and we do not have to pay for it. So far no drugs have been missing.. Before the surgery she did a treatment that didn’t work and then we started new drugs. Next Tuesday we are going with chemo number 23. In total there are 36. Being out of work, the complication is transportation because they are outpatient treatments.“We have to go every week for 3 to 5 days,” he said.
Having very low defenses, Olivia cannot be outdoors or receive visitors, and spends most of her time at home. Making up like her GH idol and painting her dad and brother with her “angry look” became her hobby, while she asks if her “superhero” is still in the house.
“We accompany my entire family with what is good for them. Olivia loves makeup, loves watching Fury. The only thing he does is watch some of his clips, the ones I allow him, which are the funny ones. Then he goes to the hospital with hearts on his head and with glitter. He loves all of that. “She says that Juliana is a strong and brave woman and that she wants to be like that too,” Anabella told Teleshow.
“Olivia is a smart girl. Now you’re asking why there are no skinned dolls, without those long hair that Barbies, The Little Mermaid or Elsa from Frozen have. Dolls like them and like many of their colleagues and friends at the hospital. He asked me why the dolls don’t have scars. In her world, in her little six-year-old head, she considers all of that,” Antonella explained, about her daughter who religiously goes to all the chemo sessions with a Furia doll that another “furiosa” knitted for her.
And although her mother has no answers to give her about the toy industry, other than “they are going to release a hairless doll,” the girl did not wait: she renewed their image and stripped them all of their hair. “She cut her hair because she wanted her dolls to look like her,” she highlighted.
About the latter he theorized Laura Mulvey, feminist film theorist and pioneer of the analysis of the role of women on the big screen in the seventies: she called it “similarity and recognition.” “Curiosity and the desire to look mix with fascination with similarity and recognition: the human face, the human body, the relationship between the human form and its environment, the visible presence of the person in the world,” he wrote. her in her book Visual pleasure and narrative cinema.
In those intersections between televised reality and real life, Olivia found out that Furia “was sick” while it was news that the contestant on the Telefe program had been diagnosed with leukemia type 1. Antonella confesses that when she learned of her diagnosis she cried: “It was very hard to hear the positive diagnosis. For me, as a mother, it was removing everything that I had gone through with Oli, what we families went through. “Olivia sensed something because you turned on the TV and everywhere they were talking about the same thing.” After a very simple explanation, the girl wrote letters to her idol and drew hearts on her paper, wishing her a speedy recovery.
Through your account TikTok (@anto.guebara), Anabella uploads her daughter’s daily life, where she is seen with her Juliana-style flower headband or smilingly drinking from a cup where (attention) there are no Mickey or Peppa Pig, but a version cartoon from the coach. Due to Olivia’s fanaticism, Antonella was questioned as a mother, given the high profile of the participant and her most controversial media. Antonella, however, is not bothered by the haters or what they will say.
“We don’t hurt anyone. My daughter has the right. Just as a child is a fan of a soccer club and she wants her team to win, my daughter simply chose Furia and I am going to accompany her in this, whoever likes it,” she said. And she closed: “She tells me and she doesn’t tell the family. Oli wants not to be ashamed, she wants that if she goes out on the street they don’t look at her as if it were strange to be bald with a tube in her nose. She wants us to stop looking at the other, she believes that you have to be happy with who you are.”
