clinical tests, rumors of leukemia, silence on social media. Anxious Argentina – Corriere.it

He seemed immune to pain, almost always declassified as gossip. Stories of broken hearts, alleged or real quarrels and betrayals, like an infinite number soap opera south american. As a diva she has always played with it, giving smiles and sighs to her 16.4 million followers on social networks, hungry for provocative photos and granite truths, good only until the next episode of an infinite show. This time for the serious, worrying situation of Wanda Nara.

Famous, loved and hated in Italy for her turbulent marriage with the former Inter captain Mauro Icardi, the showgirl is waiting for the outcome of the medical tests she underwent in recent days at the beginning of next week, when she was hospitalized in the Los Arcos clinic in Buenos Aires for stomach pains. It didn’t have to be anything that, rather regardless for Wandita n for the five children, the local media ran forward, shooting out the sentence: leukemia. High white blood cell counts and enlarged spleen helped write an early diagnosis.

The truth will come in days, for now speculations are flooding, doctors are consulted and the indiscretions of a nurse are recorded, according to which the idea of ​​intervening on the marrow is being evaluated. Too much, even for a gossip queen like Wanda who has silenced her social media and wants some privacy. The beautiful 36-year-old retired with her children, her husband Icardi and her mother Nora to the house in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, to protect six of her boys: the first three Valentino (the oldest by 14 years), Costantino and Benedicto from ex-husband footballer Maxi Lopez, Francesca and Isabella (the youngest of 6 years) born from the union with Icardi.

The 30-year-old Galatasaray bomber by his side and he won’t go anywhere until the clinical picture is clear. The couple had reunited after a divorce announced and never arrived. Mauro and Wanda always together, this time tried by a pain and a media frenzy incomprehensible to them. When leukemia hit the former Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic, confidentiality was absolute and the announcement of the disease came from the person concerned. The couple’s children are the most shocked, Wanda tries to isolate them, as a caring and present mother as she is.

In Argentina, however difficult, she is as popular if not more popular than Pope Bergoglio: not an exaggeration. an institution for television audiences, like Maria De Filippi in Italy. A few days ago she had triumphantly closed MasterChef, winning the award for best presenter of the year. Wanda is not the wife and agent of the footballer-husband, who, moreover, has earned millions with fabulous contracts in defiance of those who say she ruined his career, a money machine, a purebred animal from social networks and TV, any program he touches becomes gold , a planetary icon. When in 2016 the Chinese of Suning bought Inter, one of the first marketing ideas (which didn’t go through) was to brand the group’s appliances with Wanda’s face to sell them in China. Not to mention the quarrels with the club when she negotiated the renewal of her husband Icardi’s contract and we ended up discussing social media and the reckless use she made of it: Can you explain to me how they work? But if I have twice your followers.

Argentina with bated breath. Politicians, singers, actors, sports and entertainment people flooded her phone with messages. Father Andrs, with whom the relationship was recovered after years of detachment, had tried to reassure: It was just a check, otherwise she would not have been discharged. Her words in the wind. For once for Wanda she asks for confidentiality. The world champion of gossip and washing dirty laundry in public is a mother worried about six children and determined, if she really has to, to play her battle in respect of the silence, also due to the social media star.