Because of violence against women, Ariadne Diaz is afraid of becoming a mother to a daughter in Mexico. (Photo by Carlos Tischler/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The femicides recorded in Mexico are a topic that is not indifferent to entertainment personalities. On the contrary, they are raising their voices against this increasingly growing and alarming phenomenon in the country. Ariadne Díaz is so worried that she is afraid of having a daughter.
During the red carpet of On a trip with the Derbez: Looking for Santa, the actress was asked about her feelings regarding the disappearance and murder of Venezuelan Guillki Maika Torres in Jalisco. Díaz replied urgently that it broke his heart.
Ariadne was one of the stars joined the murdered girl's friends to report her missing on her social networks when 12 hours had passed without hearing from her. In his case, the injury is even worse because the body was found in Chapala, a place he particularly loves because he grew up there and regularly vacations there.
“It hurt me a lot because I said to myself: 'Maybe it's too early, maybe they just won't contact her' (…) I tell the story and the next day, a few hours after I told it, I find out this (that she was found dead). Apart from Chapala, a place I like so much because I have lived there half my life.”
Moved and affected by the event, Díaz became aware of this event an event “so heartbreaking, so powerful” that forced her to reflect on her own desires for motherhood. On previous occasions she had expressed that she liked the idea of expanding the family into a couple with a daughter, since she is the mother of little Diego, but now she thinks differently.
As is the case with hundreds of couples who are embarrassed when they learn that the gender of the baby on the way is female, Ariadne puts herself in these people's shoes. The motive is the fear of suffering violence or having their lives taken away in a country that does not ensure the safety of women and on the contrary, he left her alone.
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“I would love to be a mother to a girl, but this got me thinking. Yes, I would like to become a mother, but without a doubt this fear that I have with my son would increase a hundredfold because It is true that women are not safe in this country, and unfortunately there is no voice saying, “This is going to change.” or 'We will conduct a thorough investigation to determine what happened with this femicide.'”
Ariadne Díaz's words resonate in a special context that connects women from the artistic field and television with women from civil society to strengthen ties in the search for missing women; Lucero and Olga Tañón are also celebrities who have joined this situation. Díaz also does this to denounce the insecurity they feel and the panic this creates in the illusion of motherhood.
