The new life of Sara Carbonero, after her separation from Iker Casillas

“That’s how you sometimes get to the moon,” overcoming a mountain of chess. With these words and an illustration by designer René Merino shared on social networks, the journalist Sara carbonero recently summed up what is perceived to be your current emotional present, a stage of renovation in which the Spanish shines and embarks on multiple projects, after beating cancer and after separating from former Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas.

Based in Madrid after her five-year residency in Porto, Portugal, the 37-year-old model has just signed her divorce and is enjoying various escapades to heavenly destinations these days. After visiting dream locations along the coast of Almería or the Canary Islands, the presenter arrived in Morocco for various photo productions for her fashion firm Slow Love, which she created five years ago with her companion and friend Isabel Jiménez. And although the brand has been sold to the Tendam group, with a strong presence in the Spanish market, they continue with the creative control of the collections, in which the style that has made Carbonero a fashion icon in Spain is present.

“It’s a great time. I want everything. I sign up for a blitz! There are times when we are in a more inner stage and there are times when we are more exploding. Let’s see how long it lasts, ”the journalist said this week in an interview with El País newspaper.

In addition to taking care of her children, Martín, 7, and Lucas, 4, the result of a ten-year relationship with the footballer, the communicator combines her textile project with a new stage as co-host of the program. Let the dance continue, by Radio Marca. In this space, the presenter talks with different personalities from the music and culture of her country and, among her guests, actresses Sara Sálamo and Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, singer-songwriter India Martínez and comedian , designer and actor Joaquín Reyes recently passed., who this week shared his desire to know Argentina, “the home of Perito Moreno and Messi”. “At Radio Marca, I started 15 years ago as an intern. Going back was a bit crazy, a colleague suggested it to me. In the same vein of flow and “I sign up for everything”, I saw that Radio Marca was the place, because it was my home. I don’t want stress. I like going back to a place well known as a child, ”the journalist told the Spanish newspaper.

How does Sara Carbonero combine her professional life and personal efforts with taking care of her children? “Like so many women. And probably with better luck because I have some help around the house. Also taking hours of sleep; although now I take better care of myself and sleep is important. What happens is what I do has visibility, but it’s the same with any working woman. I manage! », He revealed.

While these days it appeared that Iker Casillas has started a new single life in a luxurious 300 square meter apartment in an exclusive urbanization very close to the old marital residence, in the town of La Finca, in Madrid, Carbonero is the protagonist of intense activity, both in real life and in the virtual world, where he shares deep reflections on love and existence.

“I see so many colors, and all my senses will explode by dint of loving you so much”, we read the fragment of the song “Complete Love”, by Mon Laferte, that Carbonero has chosen to share this week on the networks within a series of posts with a similar tone.

“These are atypical times, but in the depths of winter, I finally learned that an invincible summer was living in me”, he wrote last Wednesday on his Instagram account, citing Albert Camus to celebrate, also with affectionate postcards, the International Kissing Day.

“When the only scenario is a good attitude, when authenticity emerges, when you surround yourself with a team that becomes family. When all of this happens, projects are born that are truly worth it. This ‘pending journey’ leaves a lot of laughs along the way and unforgettable moments, ”the presenter also wrote with an article about promoting her new clothing collection.

“Let’s see if life will just try to laugh and here we are looking for other explanations”, also reflected the model on the same social network at the end of March, two weeks after the official announcement of her separation from the former Real. Madrid player.

At that point, the couple shared a joint statement in which, in Sara’s case, they expressed, “Iker and I are extremely proud of the family that we are and to have been able to share a love that has held us apart. filled with happiness during all these years of union. Today, our love as a couple takes different but not distant paths as we will continue together in the wonderful task of continuing to be devoted parents, as we have done so far. It is a very considered decision and that we have taken by mutual agreement, ”he underlined on March 12.

A day later, the journalist posted an image of herself playing music accompanied by a fragment of a song by the group Chambao: “I fall in love with life …”, Carbonero wrote, reproducing the beginning of the songs. words she left. incomplete, and which continues with a: “… even if it sometimes hurts.”

The duel seems to have started to be left behind for the Spanish woman, who told the newspaper El País of her wish that the expected summer in the northern hemisphere and a certain relaxation of the pandemic in her country allow her to enjoy in the coming months of hot new and promising “weekend getaways, sea and concerts”.

Sara Carbonero and Iker Casillas came to an amicable agreement after their separation and the ex-archer left the matrimonial home, but he settled very close to be able to be present in the daily life of his children. According to the press in his country, the athlete opened a luxury apartment of four rooms, six terraces and a swimming pool, worth over 1,700,000 euros and located near the house where his ex lives with his two children, whom he takes to school every morning.

According to the magazine Diez minutos, the ex-partner signed the papers of their divorce by mutual agreement on April 6 in the courts of Pozuelo de Alarcón. The journalist has been given custody of the children and Casillas is said to bear the costs of their education under a flexible visitation regime that allows her to visit them whenever she wishes.

Casillas, who retired to Porto de Portugal after suffering from heart problems, is said to have assets valued at over 350 million euros, with real estate and businesses among his investments. It has four companies that move around 25 million euros, in addition to having a huge capital in Spain for real estate investments.

Carbonero, for his part, is also the creditor of a millionaire heritage albeit on a smaller scale. Among his main income are those from his company Memories of South Africa SL, which he founded in 2010, after covering the World Cup where he started his relationship with Iker Casillas, and his fashion company Slow Love. .

Before they met, they were both established professionals, her in the media and he in football. The crush was immediate. It was in 2010 Carbonero had already had to cover the news of Real Madrid and the Spanish national team. “Then we started texting each other and one day, without realizing it, the love story turns,” Casillas said in an interview published in El Español.

The sentimental relationship began to settle and was formalized with a kiss in front of the cameras who made history at the World Cup in South Africa. In January 2014, the couple’s first child was born, Martín, then there were rumors of a secret and intimate wedding in Boadilla del Monte. Two years later, the family moved from Spain to Portugal, when he was signed by FC Porto. Soon after, they announced that they were expecting their second child, Lucas, who was born in June 2015.

In May 2019, Casillas was training at the facilities in Porto when he started to experience chest pain and was taken to hospital. He had suffered a heart attack. Fortunately, everything could be checked and the footballer was fired. A few days later, bad news rocked the couple again. On May 21, Carbonero announced on his social networks that he had been detected malignant tumor of the ovaries and that he had already undergone an operation: “We caught him in time but I still have a few months of struggle to follow the corresponding treatment. I am calm and confident that everything will be fine, ”she said.

In December 2020, the family returned to Madrid. Casillas started working at the Real Madrid Foundation as an assistant to the general manager and the journalist returned to her origins, Radio Marca, and has strongly resumed its presence as the brand image and fashion entrepreneur that it maintains today.

Last February, Carbonero had to be admitted to a clinic for complications from ovarian cancer diagnosed in 2019. Once cured, the model returned to the family home. Weeks later, Iker and Sara announced their breakup, and days later there were rumors of a third party, Sara Denez, who publicly denied the allegations.

Since then, Carbonero and Casillas have shown that they have good relations in view of certain crossed messages that were dedicated in social networks, on an occasion on the occasion of Father’s Day in Spain or through certain compliments that the The ex-footballer has dedicated to who his couple was for a decade in some of his publications. Everything seems to indicate that the duel has been overcome and that the two are ready to start a new life.

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