ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THALIA'S "HOLA" INTERVIEW!

Thanks Jacqueline/Jacqui/Jacquelinefan for the ENGLISH translation!

Part 1

Hola: Congratulations Thalia, you are going to become a mother...

Thalia: Just to imagine it, it feels like I have a knot in my throat, and I feel that my eyes are filled with tears, it’s a complete happiness.

Hola: What do you feel?

Thalia: I feel at peace, I feel I’m a complete woman, feminine, voluptuous. I think this is the best body I have ever had in my whole life. I love each new curve that I discover in my body everyday. It’s something amazing. It’s the biggest blessing, the most wonderful gift that I had received in my whole life, because you can read it, you heard to it from your parents, from your sisters, but you don’t understand how big it is until you live it.

Hola: Do you have annoyances?

Thalia: In the first trimester was terrible for me. I couldn’t move from a sofa of my house because I felt the worse nauseas, since I opened my eyes until I close my eyes. I just ate yogurt, olives, rice with egg and avocado and anything else, I even got anemia. It was something curious because I was very happy but I couldn’t enjoy it, until now that I’m gonna have six month of pregnancy I’m enjoying it.

Hola: Tell us how did you learn you were to have a baby?

Thalia: It’s incredible and it’s a God’s perfect work. I had to suffer a skiing accident in Aspen to get pregnant. I had a little fracture so I had to be immobilized, and to be focused in my recovery, so I had to calm myself. It was unexpected and painful, and there were many therapies and treatments, so I started to eat more, I started to ask for enchiladas, mole, tamales. So I relaxed myself and my body was ready. Tommy and I, we had like a year and a half trying to have a baby and it was because of our insistence and obsession that we didn’t get it. While you want more of things, those get away from you. God had everything calculated. I learned about the news in February in a very curious way, my mother had given me in the winter my favorite perfume ( De Clive Christian Number One which was designed specially for Queen Isabel from England). I was very happy with that gift and I wore it everyday. But the day that Tommy and I came back to New York, in the way from the Airport to our home the scent became unbearable for me. I felt nauseas. I asked to open the windows, and I try to take away from my body with kleenex, furthermore when I arrived I took a shower, but I didn’t suspect anything I thought it was a virus which I had gotten, so my husband and I that we are always together, we went to the doctor to make some analysis and some days later he asked us to go to his office to give us the results and when we arrived the first he told us was "Congratulations you are going to be parents!"

Hola: I could imagine your faces.

Thalia: It’s funny because Tommy is like a Magdalena he cries abut everything, but what is happening to us is too emotional that it was a love’s reaction, when we learned about it we embraced each other and we started to pray and thank God for this beautiful gift. It was beautiful & the poor doctor just said to us "Excuse me I’m leaving guys". After that we went to a restaurant to calm ourselves and to celebrate. The only bad thing was that I couldn’t give to him the surprise.

Hola: After a year and a half that you were trying to get pregnant without getting it, did you get worry about it?

Thalia: No, in an obsessive level, and it was not the only thing which was in my mind, but yes I was worried, because I’m a woman who doesn’t smoke, I do exercise, I drink a lot of water, I do yoga, I take care of my feeding, I like the sports, and furthermore I have a healthy husband, I didn’t realize that the stress was altering all my hormones, so I had to have an accident to relax myself and to get pregnant.

Hola: He already have children how was it for him to know about the news that he is going to be a father in his older years?

Thalia: Unfortunately, when he had his sons, he was involved 100% in his work, trying to be what he is now a days, one of the most important men of the entertainment industry, who is recognized in the whole world and who is beloved by all the artists. Those were the years in which he couldn’t take care to some of his sons’ ages. Now a days, we both are living in another age as couple, and as human beings, we are involved just to live a life and to enjoy each other, and to enjoy the simple things in life, without obsessions about work like some years ago. This news arrived in a moment of maturity, wisdom and balance in our lives.

Hola: Do you know what your baby is going to be?

Thalia: Yes, and it’s exactly what I had been asking God for so many and many years it’s a girl¡¡ and it’s funny because since the beginning Tommy started to talk to her, as she was a girl. He always knows she was to be a girl.

Hola: Did you already decide the name of your daughter?

Thalia: Tommy and I, we both already decided it, but we are going to say it later.

Hola: How has this changed you as a human being after this news?

Thalia: I’m very receptive to the wind, to the sound of the water, to the birth’s chant. It’s funny but I feel my self in harmony with nature. I see the trees it’s green color, with the sun through it, everything it’s too big now.

Hola: It’s totally happiness?

Thalia: Yes definitely, this is the happiness without make up, without masks. It’s just the happiness.

Hola: After Tommy who was the first one who received that news?

Thalia: My mom, she was in her house in Mexico and when she picked up the phone she told me she was looking for pictures of when I was a baby and she told me "you were so beautiful with your curly hair" and I told her well, so get ready because a new baby is coming soon, so she threw the phone and she started to cry and just listening, she was running all around her room, since that moment and until now she has kept the secret because I asked her to do it and each month she took a picture of me, that had been our complicity.

Hola: Did the rest of your family in Mexico know about it?

Thalia: Well now they are going to learn about it. I want to be the one who is going to tell them the news, so before this report comes for sale, I’ll call all of them to say "Surprise!".

Part 2

Second part in English translation of the iHOLA! Interview of Thalia dated June 21, 2007. iMuchas gracias Jacqui otra vez!

Hola: Where is your daughter going to be born?

Thalia: We don’t know it yet, but it will be in the United States, because I don’t want to travel, and less I want to travel on an airplane, I want to be relaxed and calmed.

Hola: And are you relaxed?

Thalia: It’s funny because all this is very beautiful, but at the same time it is stressful. I think I have never been too nervous in my whole life. If I bend down, I start to think if I shouldn’t do it. If I wear tight suits, I’m worried if the baby is ok. If I eat something I’m worried that maybe the baby could get sick and I want to go to the doctor. All the time I’m nervous. Even I was not too nervous when I have sung at the Grammy’s Awards, or when I had been with Presidents like the President of the Philippines or in the White House with George Bush. That’s why I’m trying to live the day I’m living and I don’t make big plans.

Hola: Why do you think this is happening to you?

Thalia: Because this is life, something great is growing inside of me.

Hola: Do you think you are going to be an apprehensive mother?

Thalia: (She laughs) I’m an apprehensive person. I’m very worried about everything. To be pregnant it has helped me to calm myself in some way but I think that as mother, I’m going to be very apprehensive in things like why didn’t she eat? why is she crying? Does she have a stomachache? but I think I’m going to be a lovely and comprehensive complete mother.

Hola: You say that you and your husband are together always. Do you think it will be the same after your daughter is born?

Thalia: Yes, because we have already planed it, we want to be always together and supporting each other. Maybe the one who is going to travel to promote an album is going to be me, because the one who is going to stay with the baby is going to be him. He always makes jokes about that, but our plan is to be always together, and to educate her, & to be a family.

Hola: What would you like your daughter to inherit from you and from your husband?

Thalia: From Tommy, his happiness for life, love for the home, for the family, his brain, his sense of humor, and his way of thinking that is too avant-garde, and from me the tenderness, the intuition, the love for work, love for life, the love for God, and the love for the mother, physically I like more from my nose than my husband’s nose.

Hola: all the mothers we call our kids in different ways, have you invented a name for your daughter?

Thalia: No, we just call her baby.

Hola: Will you educate your daughter like you were educated?

Thalia: My mother made an excellent work with me and with my sisters, because all of us we are professionals, and we love what we do, so in some way I’m going to follow in her footsteps. On the other hand, I would like to know where is the point between the sweetness and the discipline that had to be the most difficult thing of being a mother, to learn to be too friendly with her because I can lose her respect but neither to be too strict because I can lose her love. I think it must be a very complicated balance, but I think I’ll be getting it along the way. I would like to be everything for my daughter.

Hola: Do you think in giving your daughter more siblings?

Thalia: The first trimester was very difficult for me, it paralyzed me, but at the same time it’s incredible when you feel she is moving and she is jumping in your belly, it’s like to have inside a little bird that is opening its’ wings or like to have a little fish in your hands it’s too exciting.

Hola: What will the first thing that you are going to say to your daughter?

Thalia: I’m going to scream, I’m going to cry, I’m going to want to be the one who is going to cut the umbilical cord, I’m going to & want to do everything by myself, I don’t know.

Hola: You have been always a woman of dreams to come true. Is this the biggest of your dreams?

Thalia: Really this is the biggest of my dreams. I always have it in my heart and God has given to me that blessing.

Hola: You have seven years of marriage, when did you both get the wish to become parents?

Thalia: Tommy wanted a kid since we married. He wished to start a family with me immediately, but I didn’t pay attention and I was involved with my projects, releasing an album or a tour, or a line of clothes, because I don’t want to become a mother too young. Now, I’m ready physically, mentally and spiritually. My daughter is arriving in the best moment of my life and also in Tommy’s life.

Hola: Is your husband going to be with you at the childbirth’s moment?

Thalia: Yes, of course, I hope he will not pass out and the doctors will have to leave me to take care of him (she said laughing)

Hola: Which song do you think you are going to sing to your daughter?

Thalia: I’ll sing to her all the time, but I don’t sing my songs. I invent songs for her, and I also play the music of Bach and Boss nova.

Hola: What will happen to your career?

Thalia: I have some years in this, when I was five I started making movies with my sister Laura, when I was 9 in the group Din Din, when I was 9 in Vaselina, when I was 15 in Timbiriche, when I was 16, I made Quinceañera. So I think the people know me very well, and the people are happy for what is happening to me, and with all the love in all the world they are going to wait for my next project.

Hola: It’s said that a baby is a candle but also it’s an anchor what do you think about it?

Thalia: The experiences of people which whom I share my private life with and they had been parents, had freedom to share, to learn, to grow up, and I’m looking for that positive way. I don’t think a baby could be an obstacle to grow up professionally. It’s just a balance.

Hola: What do you think is the most important thing to teach to your daughter?

Thalia: for me the most important is to transmit to her that there is a God who loves her, that nothing is impossible in this life, that she can get each one of her dreams.

Hola: Do you think that the birth of your baby will help heal the wounds in your family?

Thalia: Yes, the announcing of a new life always is happiness, illusion and I hope it will be like that for each member of my family, and I’m sure it will be like that, because there are very deep bows of love between all of us, in spite of circumstance and any distorted image that the media creates, I think it will be a celebration in all my family.

Hola: The past years have not been easy for you and for your family after the kidnapping of your sisters. Do you think that someday there will be peace between all the women of the Zapata-Sodi clan?

Thalia: I hope that, I wish for that. But it depends in each one of us. I don’t have any problem with any of my sisters, and with any member of my family. I have a personal relationship with each one of them it’s a relationship of respect, and to know each other everyday, because I’m not the same Thalia like before, and neither they are the same ones. All of us we have changed.

Hola: You don’t go often to Mexico. Now that you’ll have your daughter will you go to Mexico?

Thalia: Yes, of course, she has to know and to love her country, she has to know her traditions, to go to the ferias, to eat algodones de azucar, to drive a boat in the Chapultepec’s lake, to know Xochimilco, and at the markets she has to take the fruit between her little hands that’s something that I visualize and I wish as a mother.

Hola: What would you like to say to your daughter in these moments?

Thalia: That I love the way she moves inside me. That I already want to have her in my arms & that I’m in love with her.

End of Part 2