Luciana Littizzetto and the difficult but wonderful experience of foster care
The children belong to those who raise them, not to those who make them. Luciana Littizzetto is well aware of this when she talks about her "alternative" motherhood to her friend Mara Venier during a very intimate interview. The Turin presenter and comedian became a mother "suddenly" when, in 2006, she took care of two brothers, Vanessa and Jordan Beljuli, together with her ex-partner Davide Graziano.
"Sometimes I felt lost"
“When you become a mother naturally, things are learned little by little. Sometimes I felt lost. "
It is an unpublished Luciana Littizzetto who speaks to the cameras on Domenica In. The Italian humorist par excellence puts aside the sketches and jokes for a moment and testifies with an open heart what it means to have a "foster care experience."
"They arrived when they were already big, they had wounds that still have not closed today."
In fact, behind her children lies a story of abandonment and the wounds that this somewhat funny mother, as she calls herself - jokingly - herself, struggles every day to heal with all her love.
"I'd do it all my life again"
Despite the ups and downs that, regardless, overwhelm and unite all families, Luciana firmly declares that "Foster care is an experience that I would do all my life and which I recommend". A phrase that, probably, was also heard by Maria De Filippi. The national Lucianina explains, in fact, that it is also thanks to the presenter if she found the courage to "embark" on this experience. De Filippi herself had taken Gabriele into custody together with her husband Maurizio Costanzo and, witnessing their happiness, helped her friend make this very important decision
"Children are children of the heart"
Today Vanessa and Jordan are respectively 25 and 23 years old and are her greatest satisfaction.They met, they spent a lot of time together, they learned to love each other, they became a family and today Luciana can say that “Children are children of the heart, not only children of the belly. The ones you grow up, the ones you cry for, the ones you smile for, the ones you're worried about ".
Motherhood is not a one-way experience
In short, the wonderful story of mother Luciana confirms that there is no manual for the "perfect mother" and that motherhood is not a one-way experience. You can be mothers, biological or otherwise, in many and different forms, each in its own special way.
