Alma Gómez, better known as Cositas, was one of the celebrities in the third edition of MasterChef Celebrity on TV Azteca in 2023 (Source: Adrián Monroy/Medios y Media/Getty Images).
When you turned on the television in the distant 1990s, a very special woman with a big smile and a delicate voice appeared on Channel 5 and told us. invited us to let our imagination and our flat scissors run wild. Little things He always trusted that the girls and boys on the other side of the screen would comply with his vehement suggestion… and yes.
In front of this woman with pigtails, a hood and pompously dressed, we learned that tongue depressors, straws, white glue, buttons, pipe cleaners, yarn, colorful leaves, watercolors, empty milk cartons, any material can be molded and formed into a portrait, a stroller, a Doll, this style is free and nothing and no one could stop us from creating incredible things.
But with the turn of the millennium and the introduction of new technologies, imagination diminished and Cositas seemed destined to be the memory of a generation in its natural aging process. It went off the air, but the woman who always championed imagination and creativity followed suit and started taking over social media.
Small things cannot be understood without it Alma Gomez Fuentesthe kindergarten teacher who lives with the lovable character.
In the mid-1980s, a colleague – and Gómez’s children’s teacher – also worked as a content researcher for a children’s program Openness produced by Javier Toledo. “When he told me, ‘Ma’am, don’t you want to be on TV?’, I said no.”
Despite the blunt reaction, they managed to convince her and go to the casting, where she fell in love with everyone and soon arrived at Rainbow of the Imagination. The character stood out so much that those in charge ordered to give him his own room, where we not only learned how to build boats or planes, but also puzzles, simple cooking recipes and a gallery where the photos and paintings were displayed were sent to him.
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“The idea came about to bring Cositas to Channel 5 and create the connection between the cartoons and all the children on the other side of the screen. It was a direct communication from Channel 5 to all of you,” he said in a memorial capsule. Regarding the character, he recalled that he did not take inspiration from anyone in particular, but simply conveyed the idea of being a person from a time long gone, but always respecting the motto that he should have a lot of imagination.
But if One person was involved in the creation and it was Alma’s mother, a fashion designer, who gave her the idea for the first outfit. “My fifteen-year-old dress that my mother made for me is exactly like Cositas’sIt was inspired and fit the figure well and that’s how the Cositas outfit was born. I have many aprons, vests, complete aprons and a lot of imagination! Since my clothing is temporary, i.e. Day of the Dead, Christmas, and Spring, I will always be dressed for the occasion.
The name also has its own history and arose from confusion. “Toledo told me, ‘You have the freedom to dress how you want and you will do little things.’ And I thought he was going to tell me that he was going to call me ‘Cositas’ (‘being little things’) and that’s why the name stuck,” he revealed.
The Cositas Room was on the air until 1992; He was also part of the game show Super Holidays, the capsule called GC and his Rainbow of Imagination; and from 1991 to 2007 he starred in Club Amigos de Cositas, in addition to appearances on other Televisa programs.
Accustomed to the kind, sweet and vicious side of Cositas, Adal Ramones caused a stir on Televisa with his participation in the parody “El gran carnal”, which abused double entendres, swear words and physical aggression. A similar situation was repeated in Eugenio Derbez’s programs.
Gómez Fuentes has assured that this was not the reason for his departure from Televisa, but somehow he found that the audience of 5 people had also grown and Cositas began to conflict with future projects.
“Through the development and new projects of the station, it became more youthful. I left television, but my image was still present. In my capsules I had a lot of contact with children and they started inviting me to their children’s parties where I gave presentations and games, but these children grew up,” Cositas said for TVNotas.
The Covid-19 pandemic helped her resurgence as she took advantage of the isolation to create content through YouTube and Instagram and then ventured into TikTok.
With the help of her husband and daughter, Cositas improvised a recording set in her own home, looking for the brightest room, adjusting a tripod, microphone and spotlights, rearranging a desk, trying out different cell phones and cutting her first videos herself from the tablet. “It’s a complete task. “First I have to choose what craft I want to do, go through the steps carefully so that the capsule is not too long, and then I characterize myself, apply makeup and start recording,” she shared in an interview TimeOut in 2020. .
She said she knew this new phase wouldn’t be easy, but she was ready to learn a lot about everything that comes with creating content on the internet. “The only thing I want is to be part of their families, to enter their homes and for them to see me as if I were in the room. That’s part of the essence of the character that I don’t want to lose.”
It has not failed and now has a base of more than half a million followers across its social networks.
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And he has returned to television, but not in a defined space. Sometimes she is invited to interviews that end with her guiding adults to become children again and let their imaginations run wild, or as a contestant on reality shows like MasterChef Celebrity, where she sometimes amazed the judges with her culinary creations .
But what Cositas loves most is staying present, staying informed and living a good life. “How many things I have to learn. Just like age, it’s all a question of attitude. “You can see all the beautiful things, but you have to be realistic and committed and not wait for things to come from heaven and for everything to happen.” No. You have to be realistic and responsible, but you have two options: you can see the negative things all the time, or you can see the positive things.”