This Friday, María Patiño has opened up in It’s not like we were in discussing a deeply personal subject: his struggle with an eating disorder and how her parents coped with, or rather avoided, the reality of what she was going through.
During her speech, Patiño explained how, in many families, children take the difficult step of talking about their problems, only to be met with incomprehension or even silence.
“It’s interesting, because when I read some cases of traumatic childhoods…. Suddenly, it’s true, that most of the kids, boys or girls, who at a certain moment sit down with their father or mother and say: ‘Let’s see, mom, I never dared to tell you this’. The fact that they are not aware of it means that they try to look the other way“, said the journalist.
The presenter has also stressed the feeling of disbelief that this parental attitude usually arouses: “It’s like they say: ‘How can a mother not have noticed’ (…). They always run away“.
Speaking of his own case, Patiño recalled how she experienced this lack of understanding in her own family environment.. “I say this because of my eating disorder problem (…) At the moment when you said something to her. Me, in my house, or girls like me to their parents…. They are not responsible for anything,” she concluded.