DOpe the debut of Antonella Clerici and Gerry Scotti, two columns of television that broke the ice, The Sanremo 2025 festival passes the witness of the second evening to the trio composed of Bianca Balti, Cristiano Malgioglio and Nino Frassica. At the press conference for the presentation of the cast, Balti appeared particularly excited, observed with a special eye for the disease which has documented on social media in recent months.
Sanremo 2025, Bianca Balti at the Festival: “I want my presence to be a celebration of life”
But the model – 40 years – He immediately clarified that the goal of his participation is far from compassion for poor star affected by the disease. “I want my presence to be a celebration of life”said with a great smile. By pairing with what he had said to the announcement of his casting, namely that Bianca is “A warrior”, and that The second evening of Sanremo 2025 would have been a show “Particularly strong precisely due to the presence of an extraordinary woman”.
Target of questions, Bianca clarified The post on Instagram of days ago in which he wrote that some fashion brands, with the disease, have not called it anymore. «Yes, but maybe they moved away for us – he specified. Maybe for regard, rather than for a real deliberate and petty action. What is certain is that I was still ready to resume work ».
Bianca Balti and Eleonora Giorgi feel?
Speaking of courage and illness, he is in contact with Eleonora Giorgi (Giorgi is in the last stages of cancer, editor’s note)? «No, with her no. But I feel with a lot of women who operated on the same day and who are doing the same therapy as. It is nice to force yourself. That’s why I say that in Sanremo I really want to convey a desire for life. And the thing I want to underline is that I have not received any criticism from sick people like meOn the contrary. But if you have the number of Eleonora, contact you willingly ».
Bianca Balti at the presentation of the second evening of Sanremo 2025. (Getty Images)
On how this vitality will present on stage, The model did not hide that she likes to be at the center of attentionbut that when he saw the lineup he frightened that he should also speak. «I will be very elegant, with Italian clothes. And then I will try to have fun ».
For Balti Sanremo 2025 he represented a return to the Ariston Theater 12 years after his first participation. It was 2013 and had been a guest at the final of the first Sanremo conducted by Fabio Fazio and Luciana Littizzetto. Above all, It returned after complicated months, in which she had to face the disease. Last September, through a post on Instagram, He communicated that he had an ovarian tumor in the third stage.
From then on, He informed the followers of the various phases, from chemotherapy to the new hairless look. All this, without ever losing the smile and transmitting strength. In the weeks following the announcement of his participation, Conti stressed that there would be no monologues or references to the disease. A turnaround compared to the Amadeus festivals, in which the monologues were an integral part of the show.
Balti’s supermodel career
Bianca Balti has been on the scenes for twenty years. Born and raised in Lodi, after the high school his way he was in charge with that of fashion. Merit of A lucky casting that immediately launched it into the Olympus of supermodelle. Together with Mariacarla Boscoono and Eva Riccobono, he characterized an era. His face soon became recognizable thanks to the professional partnership with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, for whom he almost became a muse.
From then on, one contact after the other. Has become testimonial of several high fashion brandsin addition to being the first Italian model to parade for Victoria’s Secret. Unlike many colleagues, however, he has adopted a different communicative line. It has never been the unattainable top model, but she has always shown herself as the girl next door.
Strabiliating beauty aside, she showed up to the world showing her smile and funny personality, sometimes even clumsy. He never wanted to represent an ideal of perfectionfar from it. Memorable an interview a The witness of pif in which he ironized on the commonplaces concerning the models. Beautiful as a goddess, yes, but in addition to the image there is (a lot) more.
The wounds of the past, the disease, the daughters and the strength of his smile
Over the years he has continued to tell himself and he has done it with courage and without hypocrisy. First in the podcast One More Time by Luca Casadei and then a Belve, He revealed several wounds of his past with whom he had to learn to live together. First of all, A rape immediately as a teenager from whom a destructive phase has sprung up dotted with abuse, between alcohol and drugs. He did not escape the questions and retraced that long period always with a smile that illuminated his face.
It is not one who lets himself be killed, Bianca Balti, nor does he hide behind a finger. Indeed, it is she who shows herself for what she is, even in difficulties. In December he was the protagonist of a service of The hyenas Signed by Nicolò de Devitiis in which he made the cameras enter his new daily life.
From checks from the oncologist to dinners with their daughters, from walks in front of the ocean to a touch and escape to Milan for a job. I work that – by his own admission – since he revealed that he has a tumor he has thinned out. In the middle of, gratitude for life and fervent will to face the disease Looking at the glass always half full.
Bianca Balti guest at the final of the Sanremo Festival 2013. (Getty Images)
Word of order: authenticity
Furthermore, For a couple of years he has been carrying out his format, In bed with whiteavailable on its YouTube channel. In each episode, he meets influencers, singers, show characters with whom he en ensete fun, but also interesting chats. And has achieved its goal, that is unhook the cliché of the model reduced to simple mannequin.
At the Sanremo Festival 2025 no space for monologues, but Carlo Conti explained several times that it is possible to send strong messages even with small grafts. And Bianca Balti’s choice finds her raison d’etre in what she herself decided to want to communicate.
Sanremo 2025, Bianca Balti: daughters and boyfriend
Regarding his private life, Balti has maintained the same coherent approach in showing his family team. In 2006 he married the photographer Christian Lucidi and the following year he became Matilde’s mother. After the separation, which took place in 2010, the daughter lived in Paris with her father, but now she lives in Los Angeles with her mother.
In 2015 he gave birth to the second daughter, minehad from the second husband, the American Deejay Matthew McRae, from whom he separated a few months after the wedding, celebrated in 2017. Today she is engaged to Alessandro CutreraFerrari Challenge pilot.
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