Well-being influencer Sonja Aiello makes a podcast together with her mother Pia. Now the two talk openly about the difficulties of Sonja’s teenage years.
– After a long time, we had an argument in the car on the way here. Now it’s good to come to this kind of mother-daughter interview, welfare influencer Sonja Aiello laughs.
– I said don’t say anything at all. We were silent for a while, Sonja’s mother Pia Hänninen laughing next door.
It’s fun to watch mother and daughter talk. The two are currently doing the Eiks nii mäiti podcast together, where they talk openly about their relationship and family life.
Sonja Aiello and her mother Pia talk openly about their lives to each other. Sometimes we also take them together. Bibi dog is also in the picture. Pete Anikari
Although there is plenty of laughter and noise, both admit that there have also been difficult times in life.
When Sonja was about 7 years old, her parents divorced. Sonja and her sister Sofia, who is four years older, stayed with their mother to live with the three of them.
– The quarrels of my parents remain in my memories. I have no memories of us doing anything fun together as a family.
Pia listens quietly next to her.
– It feels terribly sad, he says.
According to Pia, the end of the relationship was a hard blow. However, he wanted to put the children first in the situation.
– My job is to protect my children. It wasn’t good for me to be in that explosive atmosphere, but neither were the girls.
Sonja has sometimes asked her mother why she is not angry with her ex-spouse.
– Bitterness doesn’t get you anywhere in life. If I always carried that kind of burden in my life into a new relationship, nothing would end well.
Pia is grateful that she can now be friends with her ex-spouse.
Invisible Sonja
– Sonja was adventurous and really curious as a child, but at the same time a bit of Hulda Huoleton, which she still is today, Pia laughs.
Sonja admits that going to school did not interest her when she was younger. Hanging out with friends was more important than studying. As a teenager, the situation escalated. When there was a stupid whim in the group of friends, Sonja was the first volunteer to raise her hand.
– I had a need to show off and applied for approval. I ran away from home and didn’t believe anything, Sonja continues.
– Yes, mother started to run out of resources when she was alone with us.
Sonja’s teenage years were difficult for Pia, but she got through them too. Pete Anikari
Sonja admits that she behaved badly towards her mother as a teenager.
The daughter’s defiance came as a surprise to the mother.
– At the time, I did wonder how I would survive this situation, Pia recalls.
In retrospect, Sonja has thought about where her bad behavior stemmed from. Pia asks if the daughter felt that she was being overshadowed by her big sister.
Sonja nods to her mother.
– My sister was always the girl in her twenties. I got along with him a lot and he was always trusted. I always got yelled at and I was treated harshly. I felt like all my relatives adored my older sister. Little Sonja was not heard.
– In a group of friends, my courage was admired and that’s what I sought.
When Sonja found exercise, the teenage defiance subsided.
After painful teenage years, mother and daughter found common ground. Pete Anikari
Attention is pouring in
Sonja found bikini fitness with her sister, for which they started training hard. At the same time, Sonja started publishing training videos on social media, which gained huge popularity.
The mother was worried about her daughter’s new hobby. Despite prejudices, she has always encouraged her daughters.
– Members of my own generation may wonder if it’s healthy to frolic on stage in a bikini, Pia admits.
For Sonja, social media videos brought joy and attention from followers. People were also interested in the woman’s relationship with the rapper William’s with. Soon, however, the rut broke out.
Sonja and William’s relationship ended and the two ended up in court, where the incident between the couple was investigated. In the end, Sonja was fined for assaulting her ex-lover.
The number of negative social media comments and news headlines increased. Publicity, which had previously seemed wonderful to Sonja, showed its dark side.
– This wasn’t what I wanted, Sonja reflects that she thought.
– I didn’t recognize my child from that headline, Pia commented.
– Yes, those negative headlines felt bad. No mother feels good when their own child is criticized, for example, because of their appearance, even though they don’t know the person, says Pia.
Sonja has also experienced the dark side of publicity. Pete Anikari
At first he read things written about Sonja, but after a while he decided it was better to skip them. No stranger has dared to criticize Sonja Pia face to face.
– Maybe that says a lot about a person who criticizes someone online.
Have you ever said that Sonja should leave the public eye?
– As a grown woman, she makes her own decisions. Even though I’m a mother, I’m not the right person to advise how another person should live.
Here and now
The family was faced with great sadness a couple of years ago, when Pia’s husband, Sonja’s stepfather, died unexpectedly. The daughters were a great support for the mother.
He describes how his dreams were shattered in that moment. However, adversity taught me that one must live in the moment.
– I can only now see in my mother that she has started to dream a little again. You are completely different from a year ago, says Sonja.
He wants to give thanks to his mother.
– When I was young, I didn’t understand how much my mother worked for us and always put me and my sister first. Now that I have come of age, my world of thought has changed and we have found a new level in our relationship.
Sonja and Pia love to watch TV series together. Laughter is fresh in the filming, when the two pose for photos. Pete Anikari
