Independent Perspective News

Translation by Carolina Friszman.

Son, OK, but not a husband.

He, the father of her eldest daughter, will only agree provided that they become a family.

All children of separated parents have the secret hope that mom and dad will get together again. In the case of Sasha Szafir Meneghel, her famous parents give her good reasons to do so.

Xuxa, a children TV shows hostess and actress, gorgeous and the owner of one of the greatest fortunes of Brazil, said on TV a week ago that she would like to have a second child, and that the father was Sasha's. That is, his partner for an extremely brief time, Luciano Szafir, who she divorced even before Sasha was born, on July 28 1998. However, Xuxa, who at 39 has never been married, stated publicly that her new child wouldn't entail the couple's make up, and certainly not their marriage.

Luciano, 33 years old, a very handsome model, an actor (he will be playing a co-leading role in the soap The clone), and a businessman, did not phone her ex, but preferred to answer her via a magazine. He said he accepts gladly, but on one condition: "love and the constitution of a family ".

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Five years ago Xuxa was, as she is now, Brazil's great star. She had also succeeded in Argentina and other countries of Latin America. Her contracts (from dolls to tooth paste carrying her name) multiplied, encouraged by her ex manager, Marlene Mattos. Xuxa, who had been the woman of two of the greatest Brazilian icons -Pelé and Ayrton Senna-, only craved for a child. The issue would come up again and again in her comments: that she had been thinking about adoption, that she had been thinking about insemination, etc.

One day Xuxa introduced Luciano as her boyfriend. He had worked as a successful international model, doing campaigns for Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren, to name only two. And besides carrying his wealthy family's business in Sao Paulo, he acted in soap operas. A couple of months later, the couple announced the pregnancy. (...) By Sasha's birth is had all ended. They were still in good terms, though.

"If I had to choose someone to have another child, it would be Luciano. It wouldn't be convenient that Sasha had a brother of a different father. But we have different life projects. His dream is to fall asleep, wake up with a person next to him and get married. Mine is not", said she. "You don't get a brother in the mall. Having children is a part of a process that needs love and family stability. I've had a child with Xuxa because I imagined we would be together forever", said he. Now what?