Galilea Montijo: The Star Host of the Latin American Music Awards and Her Inspirational Journey

2023-06-30 22:31:57

Galilea Montijo prior to the Latin American Music Awards in which she served as the star host in April 2023 (Credit: AP Photo/John Locher).

maybe Galilee Montijo She is the presenter with the greatest media exposure in the show and that is not a complaint. She stands out for being one of the veterans in the morning magazine Hoy y es one of the most experienced drivers in front of the realities of Televisa, as The House of the Famous or at events like the Latin Grammys.

Those who deal with her on a daily basis or have gotten to know her a little describe her as a beautiful human being, with a kind, simple soul. “Galilea has something else that I even care about pimping because she’s going to give it to you; you can’t tell her ‘how beautiful your pants’, because she’s going to give it to you,” shared Natalia Téllez, her partner in divine net.

It was in this very space where Gali opened her heart once again to explain why she almost always seeks to be the provider of her environment: due to the precariousness she experienced as a child.

Montijo was born and raised in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Even with how hermetic she has been about her family life in that western Mexican city, she has always maintained that she grew up without a father and it was her grandparents who raised her along with her brother, since her mother, Rebeca Torres, was the one who went out to work as a Secretary. The driver had two sisters later.

However, in those years he also had to take care of his siblings and start contributing to the family economy, because due to his father’s abandonment there were always deficiencies. “I saw my mother cry many times because she didn’t have anything to eatso I always do… because everyone tells me ‘but why does there always have to be food in your dressing room?

“In my house I have something that if I arrive and see (in) the refrigerator an empty part, something like a enters me… it takes away my peace. I do go (to the supermarket) and buy and I tell everyone ‘do you want eat, do you want to eat?'” added Montijo.

His concern has become so much that even in dreams he also feels the need to resolve this lack. In the program, her partner Daniela Magún revealed that that same day, when she entered Galilea’s dressing room, she was asleep and suddenly woke up to offer her something unusual: “Do you want chicken?” She told him.

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“I was asleep but I was dreaming, I don’t know, I had chicken, I stayed (with that idea) ‘there is chicken’, I want everyone to be well fed,” she added, somewhat embarrassed and amused by the experience.

Fortunately for Gali, her childhood is behind her and little by little her wounds have healed, one of them with her father.

Gustavo Montijo Talamantes searched several decades later for the family he abandoned. “I accepted it for the happiness of my mother, that has always been my intention, to see her happy. Only they (my parents) know their stories, I did not get involved there, I just wanted to see my mother happy always,” she said in 2021. in Hoywhen he shared that his father had died from the covid.