Everything is almost ready to unite her life with the father of her son Gennaro, Francesco Zampogna. But before and exclusively, Francisca Méndez-Zampogna, from ‘Despierta América’, confesses with us: “There is a Cinderella who lives in me and the wedding will be a fairy tale”.
This Dominican Cinderella, in addition to this interview, starting this Monday, May 2, and from the place where the great religious event will take place, Francisca will begin a segment called ‘The Wedding Diary’ on ‘Despierta América’, where she will reveal all the details and will even show reality type what will live until reaching the altar.
Next, you can read, and at the end see on video, an interview that will make you laugh and cry from more than one talent on TV, a woman who fought hard to be able to live her own fairy tale.
-Francisca, congratulations, we are days away from the wedding.
Francisca: Yes, days away, a little, a little, a little, excited, nervous because it is a great responsibility but also anxious and happy, because I’m going to close r like that chapter, and give way to other blessings that I know that Diosito has for me.
-At 2 years old and a little more, you have the dream of being able to get married by Church with the love of your life.
Francisca : Yes, to get married now, finally, God understood that this was the perfect moment, this was supposed to have happened a long time ago, but well now the story that we have all been victims of, which is the pandemic that caught us , changed all the wedding plans, and we have done it in part, but finally, with the religious wedding, it will be completed. I say that we have done it in part because you well know that we got married in December to prepare for our wedding, which was going to be in Italy and it did not happen, but now, the time has come to complete it and I am sure it will be a ceremony. special, I’m going to flow, whatever God wants to happen that day.
-Are you very nervous? what makes you most nervous?
Francisca: What is normal for brides, is that first of all it is a responsibility, because you are inviting people to go to another country, so you want to feel good, that everything is perfect, that nothing is missing, because they do say that the most important thing is the couple Francesco and I, in this case, but also for me and for us, especially for Francesco, that his family is well , that his friends are well, that’s something like it kind of keeps us awake at night, but I think it’s normal. When the day comes, what we want is to flow and understand that everyone who is going to go loves us, and everyone who is going to be an effort, then I don’t think anything bad is going to come out, because the only reason is to be there celebrating our love, regardless of anything else that works out perfect for us.
-Also, ‘Despierta América’, the happiest little house on Hispanic television, will accompany you, and you will be part of them, and all of us of your wedding, because from Monday we are going to find out little by little about everything.
Francisca: Of course, it’s because I came here: “And I’m going to tell him that starting Monday on ‘Despierta América’…” and you already knew it (laughs)… Well yes, as of Monday we will begin to reveal details of what the wedding would be, for me it is very important to communicate everything that is happening with the people, because I am here for the love of the people, and that will never be known to me You can forget, that’s what people always say, they love me from ‘Nuestra Belleza’, and it is a very beautiful community, which has continued to grow, continue to support me, for which I feel very grateful. I swear that if I had the opportunity to get married like this openly, in an Olympic stadium, where everyone who loves me could come, I would make it happy, what happens is that it would take me about 2 more years to plan it, and even then it would not be perfect. What better way to do it than in the same way that I enter people’s houses every day, through my house, ‘Despierta América’ also to share my happiness, my wedding, the moment, any type of stress, that if the dress, I want to share everything because it is my way of making my people feel that they were with me that day.
-What can you tell us in advance?
Francisca: I can tell you in advance that on Monday, in ‘Despierta América’, we will already reveal the exact date of the wedding, the day, the details, just like that, so that from that moment on they start sending me pure positive energy, many beautiful things, I am happy because I always say that I am like a kind of frustrated princess, there is a Cinderella that lives in me, so this is like the truth, it is like the fairy tale of the movie for me, so the emotion to Sometimes it beats me.
-What is the segment that is going to be your wedding going to be called, all this coming week?
Francisca: It’s ‘El Diario of the Wedding’, then there are going to be like little chapters of the things that are happening, what if the dress, what the decoration, little things like that so that people can see how the week before the wedding is doing.
–You speak of the story of the princess, your life has not been easy, you have been given many tests, that you have overcome some with more ease, others a little more complicated and this is like a cherry on the cake, if you look back at everything you’ve lived through and everything you’ve had to go through to get to this day, what do you feel?
Francisca: Oh my God… I feel everything, it feels like a lump in my throat, but not sadness, it’s a lot of gratitude, a lot of gratitude, I feel a lot of pride, I feel very grateful to God, that really, no matter how dark they were those moments, my way of believing and way of having faith, of seeing with such certainty things that did not exist at the time but that were like that in my head, is what has brought me here, so I feel extremely blessed because God has given me more than I imagined, I feel that everything I experienced has been worth it, that it was a good decision to come to this country when I had 21 years old without knowing what was waiting for me, that selling pots on the streets of New York was also part of my learning, of what I needed to live to build the woman I am now, that he is not wrong about anything, so my heart is full, that is, it comes out like this from all sides of gratitude, because there is nothing else. My life has changed in a way that if I think about it and I say: “My God, but you went too far, but keep going, because I like it, keep going” (laughs).
-will there be someone who was not invited 2 years ago and whose name is Gennaro, your son?
Francisca Méndez: Oh tell me if it’s not the most special and the most beautiful!… I don’t even know how I’m going to react that day when I see him, not to walk because we were praying that he would walk, because he is already standing up and he is super strong, thank God, but when I see him, what do I know there at that moment… He is the proof of our greatest love, and generally children, parents tell me, who complain about that “and where was I?” when they see the photos, they ask their parents, and Genaro is going to say: “Oh, I was there, you kind of skipped a step or went ahead”… It’s very special for us, because it’s in front of our families and our friends, there with a name and surname with a little face and a lot of hair is the proof of our love, so that is what makes that day, which in itself was already a dream, which in itself was special, unique and unforgettable.
-Let’s imagine that you are at the altar dressed as a bride, what does that Francisca say at the altar, with her love next to her, with her other love, her son on the other side, to the Francisca who sold pots?
Francisca: Oh… I would say, “we made it”; she would tell him, “you did very well, I am very proud of you and happiness did exist for us”, that is what she would tell him.
WATCH THE VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH FRANCISCA HERE:
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