- Margarita Isabel and Armando Palomo have been together for more than 10 years.
- Palomo’s desire to see himself as a woman eventually severed his relationship with the actress, who once spotted him dressed and made up in his own clothes.
- Libertad Palomo recalled how they fell in love and the tough moment when she told him she wanted to be a woman.
Armando Palomo was a Soap Opera Heartthrob However, in the 1980s, he decided to change his gender in 2001 after having this thought throughout his life.
The actress who decided on a stage name freedom doveShe spoke about it on the show The Minute That Changed My Destiny. important decision amid his marriage to actress Margarita Isabel.
First up, the actress commented on how she defines herself: “A transvestite is someone who cross-dresses, a transgender is someone who transitions from one gender to another, and a transsexual is someone who changes gender. I am a trans woman“, he explained.
The decision was not easy for him, but his desire made him do it because he had always known that he had to see himself as a woman in a certain way: “I always knew it, but I only discovered it many years later Because it was something that hurts me, because all the values instilled in me at the time were telling me I’m doing something wrong and I can’t, but it doesn’t take away my desire to see myself the way you see yourself,” he said .
Palomo accepted that saying goodbye to his then-wife was the hardest part of the process because he didn’t want to hurt her.When I had to say goodbye to Margarita (Isabel), it was a difficult stage, she was my partner for almost 13 years, twelve and a half years(she was almost 15 years younger, sort of) who was actually almost 20 years younger because she was a very happy, very pretty, very funny woman,” he said.
And he added: “When I knew I was going to pursue acting, which is my passion, as I knew I was going to pursue sports… well I knew that one day I would be a woman, it was a matter of time, I always knew it, it was a commitment…it was very painful because I knew it would make me lose my job, I knew , I would lose reputation, I would lose my family, and the ones who hurt me the most were exactly Margarita and my parents“.
Libertad said she had a moment with Margarita where the actress spotted him dressed as a woman, “Margarita never knew until a situation occurred where she found me very happy to put on a wig… she went to do a movie and I couldn’t find a shirt that I really liked … I go and open Margarita’s closet and then it’s like a kid you leave him in a candy store full of cakes, you say, ” What clothes! ‘ Also, you know that Margarita was a very pretty woman, very sensual, very pretty in the way she dressed and When I saw these dresses I said, “What if I wear one?”… I couldn’t find anything that would fit me until I found a full skirt, I found a wig, I put it on, a sheer blouse, I half make up“.
And he continued: “I’m in full swing in the living room when I see the door is open and it was Margarita, I run out and go to the bathroom, then there Tragedy ensues when Margarita thinks he is dating another girl. then he says to me, ‘Open the door for me and get out that fat old woman you have in there. And I tell him, ‘You just ruined a surprise for me, I was going to throw you a party with characters from Elizabeth of England, I was going to dress up as Elizabeth.’ You don’t know, my face darkened with shame and it was so strong for me that I said, ‘I can’t hurt my partner, I’ll never do it again in my life.’ That’s what was determined never to do“.
Years later, Libertad had to be honest with her then-partner, no matter how painful it was, “Time passed and Margarita saw me with a lot of nerves above me and I said to her, ‘I need to talk to you very seriously. Do you remember how many years ago this happened? I have to go far from here because I’ve been treating myself psychologically, I’ve been trying to know who I am, this happened to me from a very young age and I’ll face hell, but you can’t leave“, Be sincere.
Libertad then spoke about Margarita’s reaction: “She was very surprised and said to me “giving up is a matter of will”, I tell him, ‘Don’t look, willpower is to stop smoking. Right now it’s the last cigarette you’ll see me smoke, that’s willpower, but willpower doesn’t mean quitting who you are and I feel very bad if I don’t fix this situation right away, I don’t know what will happen to me'”.
The actress also excitedly shared how their romance began: “It was a game of destiny that they called me to Isabel de Contradanza’s play, because when I read the lyrics, the first thing I was afraid of was I said, ‘No, what am i gonna do? close to doing a story of this nature if it’s something that’s happening to me?’ I didn’t really know what it was about and when I saw it I said, ‘I don’t want to be close to any of those things and the day we were in the general reading I had to sit next to Margarita and scenes like that, who touched me were with her so first I was struck by her beauty, she struck me as a very beautiful woman, spectacularly beautiful and a phenomenal actress and I left with the intention of saying, “Thank you teacher, but I can’t, I’ll do something else”; But I wanted to leave work Since I had the scenes with Margarita, I said, ‘Yeah, why not? When do we start?’ So I stayed in the job. It’s what suddenly happens to the loved ones of the season, well It came about unintentionally because there was a lot of attraction, there was instant chemistry and we had a nice season“.
After making the decision to see herself as a woman forever, Libertad missed opportunities to “I was looking for prestige, not popularity, and as all these changes happened to me, the prestige went down the drain.”he indicated.
Nevertheless, He is currently in love with his wife and enjoying his life“In love with life, with many things, yes I have a sentimental partner, she is my sentimental and professional partner who I currently share life with and I enjoy life in many ways“, he finished it.