NAtolia Estrada celebrates his own today, September 3 53rd birthdayfar from the spotlight that made it An icon of Italian television in the nineties and two thousand. The former Spanish showgirl, born in Gijón in 1972, chose to abandon the world of entertainment to chase his passion for horses, living today between a riding riding in the Asti area and a ranch on the hills between Forlì and Predappio. A decision that, as she herself said, gave her an authentic serenity: «On TV I preferred horses and I’m happy. My daily life is the result of a targeted choice».
Natalia Estrada, the former showgirl turns 53
Natalia Estrada has His career as a dancer began, graduating from the Royal Conservatory of Madrid. Her talent for dance brought her to television, first in Spain with programs such as the fifth Marccha and Belizas al Agua on Telecinco, and then in Italy, where In 1993 he made his debut as a presenter de The game of couples On Rete 4 next to Giorgio Mastrota.
It was right on the set of Beauties in the bathroom that the two met, giving life to A love story that led them to marriage in 1993 and the birth of her daughter Natalia Jr. in 1995. “Natalia and I did everything together. We were beautiful, we worked on TV, we were famous and above all we had a beautiful girl, “Mastrota told the time ago Corriere della Seradescribing those years as intense and overwhelming.
The career of Natalia Estrada
Natalia’s career in Italy has quickly taken off. Has conducted successful programs like Do you know the last one? With Gerry Scotti, Paper And Blessed among womenand starred in films like The cyclone by Leonardo Pieraccioni (1996) e Paparazzi (1998). In 1997 he also released an EP and an album of the same name, Natalia Estrada, participating in the Festivalbar with the song Banana y Frambuesa. However, his last television commitment dates back to 2004 with the Sitcom the Mammo next to Enzo Iacchetti, followed by an apparition in 2007 in the Spanish version of Dancing with the stars.
Farewell to TV and love at first sight for horses
The turning point in the life of Natalia Estrada came thanks to A fortuitous encounter with horse ridingsuggested by his friend Claudio Lippi. “It was like a love at first sight that it happens to you or does not happen to you,” he told the Corriere della Seradescribing his first experience in the saddle. This love for horses has pushed him to found the Italian Western Academy, of which he is president, and to manage A riding school in Cortazzone, in the province of Asti, together with his partner Andrea “Drew” mixed. The couple, who also lives in a ranch between Forlì and Predappio, made the center of his existence of the edition. “It is priceless: I live in the countryside, I take care of my horses and I live with the cowboy hat on the head, if I take it off I feel uncomfortable,” he told the weekly People in 2024.
Despite the numerous offers to return to television, including reality show invitations and two proposals to co-study the Sanremo Festival, Natalia has always refused. “I confess that I was attempted,” he admitted to Courier Speaking of Sanremo, “I would have agreed to do the festival if there had not been all that collateral blender that leads you to be overexposed and engaged on a thousand fronts, like clothes, heels …”. His choice of life, far from the frenzy of the show, reflects a search for authenticity that he found in mixed, described on who in 2022 as a man with “a wild soul” and “primitive and simple qualities”.
A private life in the spotlight
The sentimental life of Natalia Estrada has often been the center of media attention. After the separation from Giorgio Mastrota in 1998, marked by difficult moments for both, as he admitted himself (“I spent bad moments, I was sorry, I accused the blow”), Natalia had a relationship with Paolo Berlusconi from 2001 to 2004. Since 2006 he has been linked to Maming Drew, With which he shares the passion for horses and a life far from gossip. “What did he conquer me about him? Probably his wild soul, “he revealed, underlining how they do not feel the need to formalize their union with a wedding.
A choice of freedom
Today, at 53, Natalia Estrada lives a life that reflects her deepest values. His “equine family” is constantly growingdespite a serious accident in 2001, when a fall from the horse caused her the fracture of ulna and radio. «I was maciullata. I told myself: ‘I continue with the horses and leave the rest or do I continue my career on TV?’ I chose the horses, “he told the courier. A decision that has never regretted, as evidenced by the serenity that transpires from his words: “Every day I am in the size and with the people I want to have next to it, and I am happy, without distractions”.