On her podcast Maria Solomou “Maria at night” was found Despina Vandi both women had a lot to say.

After some teasing about Mente Fuerte – with whom Despina collaborates – and “Full Moon” released together, the two women started talking about everything.

“I was heavy in a way, now that I look back. Probably in the 40s-50s. You get fat when you’re not having a good time, no matter what decade you’re in. It doesn’t mean you’re a bad mother because you do things for yourself. I didn’t allow things to be done for me. I was for my childrensaid Despina, who lately seems to want to get things out of her and continued:

“Myself was finished. This is not good! Yes, it’s good because I raised two children who have self-esteem, stand on their own two feet. But it is not bad to give time to yourself, to pay attention to it, to take care of it.

I had lost myself, I didn’t take care of myself. There wasn’t even time to think. For myself, the time has come in my 50s.
At 50, what happened to me is that you realize that the things you grew up with were somehow planted in you without you realizing it, even from fairy tales… I generally write and at some point I want to publishi”

And then he elaborated on what he has written:

“I like to write. But that was something that was eating at me and I wrote it in the covid, it’s kind of like a play. They are dialogues because I had many voices inside me and I wanted to vent it all.

The title is F@ck Cinderella. Because we grow up one way and Cinderella is the most wrong fairy tale we can read to girls. That they lived well and we better, find a rich man. And after the frame what? What do you say; This should no longer be read.

You have to be the princess, claim your happiness, step on your feet. Don’t look for anyone rich, don’t let him lay out your life, lay it out for yourself. The goal is not marriage but happiness. At 50 I realized this. It’s everywhere and at some point you have to look and say I must be a happy person.

Because no one sowed this thing in me! You have 500 musts and you don’t have one direction. Be happy. The greatest value in life is not love but respect. In the name of love they have become…

In the name of love we slaughter the other, in the name of love we beat. Respect is the greatest value. This is the magic! If you can respect him that means you love him deeply. If there is no respect, everything else is boring»