He speaks slowly and always has a smile on his face. This is how it presents itself Mariana Genesio Penevery time he gives an interview or speaks through the television screen. After the success that she reaped in little victory and later in the second season, small victorieshe said that he received a wide variety of proposals from then on.
On this occasion, the actress was invited by Andy Kusnetzoff a PH, can we talk?, the cycle that is broadcast on Saturday nights by telefe. And there, next to Marcelo Polino, Sabrina Carballo, Nancy Pazos y Lucilla The Torah VillarMariana was encouraged to tell part of her life.
“Being a trans woman is not easy anywhere in the world, and neither is it here,” began the actress who is married to Nicolas GiacoboneAlthough they currently do not live together. “We are in a very beautiful moment. The truth is that we have a love for life, we already know that we are going to be together for life, in one way or another, in whatever format it is,” said the artist.
Regarding her sexual identity, Mariana said that at this point in her life she had already made friends with her masculine and feminine part. “I do not feel that I was born in the wrong body, on the contrary, I live it in a very proud way and I even feel better now. What’s more, sometimes I think I’m a superior being because of that,” the actress confessed. And she added forcefully: “It does not offend me at all that they know that I am a trans woman”
At another point in the night, Mariana talked about her childhood and the economic needs she had to face with her family when she was a girl. “I grew up in a very humble environment, my paternal grandmother inherited a small fortune when I was a girl and she suddenly had a greater purchasing power and she helped me a lot. That was how I went to a private school then but lived in a very poor house, ”she recounted.
That contrast between poverty and wealth made Mariana today have a very versatile personality but at the same time she cares about money to live better. Always remembering her grandmother Lucia from her, the actress revealed that she provided everything any child needed but that she was also a great emotional support for her. “My grandmother always gave me the freedom to be who I wanted to be and in that sense, during my adolescence she was a great support for me.”
Laughing, Peña assured that fortunately she never had to tell anyone in her family that she was a trans girl. “She was too noticeable, since she was a girl that everyone could always notice it,” she proudly acknowledged.
Although she lived for many years in New York with her husband Nicolás, her beginnings in Buenos Aires were not easy. When she left her native Córdoba for the Federal Capital, she went to live in a pension because she had no money to support herself. “I was very focused on the fact that I wanted to progress and that I was going to get out of that place. I remember that every morning after taking a shower, I would buy myself a coffee and go sit on a bench in a square on Libertador Avenue. From there I meditated, I wanted to absorb the energy of the rich people who lived in the area, ”she confessed.
In the beginning, Mariana also spoke of her relationship with Valeria Mazza. “My grandmother’s family had always told me that we were distant relatives with her, so one day in an interview with Roberto Piazza I told her. It is clear that he told some journalists because a few days later I was participating in the Pride March and some people approached me with a photo of Valeria and they took a photo of me with her. I still remember how surprised I was when a few days later I saw myself on the cover of a magazine as “Valeria Mazza’s transvestite cousin,” she recounted with a laugh.
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