Ah, Hiba Abouk! A name we’re all becoming increasingly familiar with, much like that awful friend who keeps popping up at parties you thought you’d escaped. But fear not, because unlike that pesky party crasher, Hiba has a story worth hearing!
So, apparently, the world of acting is so difficult to break into that 77% of artists earn less than twelve grand a year. Twelve thousand euros! That’s not an annual income; that’s an all-you-can-eat buffet of disappointment. I mean, if I were Hiba, my parents would probably be more supportive of me becoming a professional juggler—instead of just juggling bills due to my acting career.
Speaking of parents, Hiba’s journey to stardom began with parental disapproval so strong, it could probably have powered a small village. “Mom, I want to be an artist!” she says. And what did they respond with? “An artist of what? With your brains, you should be doing something respectable—like brain surgery or accounting!” Because nothing says ‘good parenting’ like forcing your child into a profession guaranteed to give them existential dread well into their forties.
Imagine your dad looking you in the eye and saying, “But do medicine!” This is family support at its finest! Who needs the warm, fuzzy encouragement of a loving family when you can have ‘get-a-real-job’ stares instead? Forget about cancer research—let’s see you take that hefty student loan and turn it into your next dramatic monologue!
In Hiba’s case, wanting to be an actress was akin to saying, “Hey family, I’d like to jump into a fiery volcano!” But she had the resilience of a cockroach—altered but not squashed! Determined to pursue her penchant for poetry and characters, she fought her way through. If her family had strong opinions about her career, perhaps they missed the chapter on ‘Following Your Dreams’ in the parenting handbook. Or perhaps they were on the ‘Control Your Child’s Life’ edition!
As for the relationship with her parents, well, it’s about as smooth as a bag of nails. At one point, Hiba claimed it was “null,” which sounds less like a relationship and more like she was simply talking to the wall. They could start a support group for aspiring actors whose parents think “getting an education” means watching reality TV. But time is a funny thing, isn’t it? Relationships shifted; Christmas dinners commenced, and voilà! Acceptance settled in, like an unwanted guest who raided your fridge.
You see, life is like a three-act play: Act I, the struggle; Act II, the battle with family expectations; and Act III, the dramatic reconciliation where everyone finally understands your dreams—kind of like getting to the end of a Netflix series and realizing you’ve cried through most of it.
So here’s the takeaway from Hiba Abouk’s story: Follow your passions, no matter how many well-meaning parents you have telling you to pick something practical (sorry, mom and dad). Because if at first you don’t succeed, you might just have to sit your parents down and remind them that the world needs artists. After all, who else is going to provide the drama?
It is not usually easy, as a general rule, to find a place in worlds such as interpretation but, from time to time, new faces emerge that end up finding a place in a tough profession, where, according to the latest AISGE report, 77% of artists earn less than twelve thousand euros a year. One of those lucky ones has been, for years, Hiba Aboukwhich carries more than a decade and a half of career as an actress. He recently spoke about these difficulties and their beginnings, also explaining, How his parents took the fact that he wanted to be an artist when he told it to him when he was young, something that had already been confessed about before.
These are the children of Hiba Abouk and Achraf Hakimi, Amín and Naím
Abouk has opened up about different issues related to his work during a conversation with Dani García in ‘Desmontadito’the gastronomic podcast that the chef has started. In the second broadcast of the format they have had her as a guest, and together they have talked about gastronomy, now that Hiba has delved into her culinary side, as well as the Madrid native’s work and artistic career. Among other issues, he has spoken about How were your acting beginnings?o the weight that her Arab origins have had (she is the daughter of Tunisian parents) when they offered him projects.
This is how Hiba Abouk’s parents took it that she wanted to be an actress
And another of the topics they have addressed has been how his surroundings received the fact that he wanted to dedicate himself to this world. As García explained, his mother did not want him to be a cook. “And I think yours didn’t want you to be an actress either, right?” he asked her. “Man, ‘Mom, I want to be an artist,’ they told me: ‘an artist of what? With the education we have given you, with the languages you speak, with how intelligent you are…“, he remembers that was the initial reaction of his people.
Hiba Abouk’s words on the conciliation between the personal and the professional
In his words, his parents preferred him to dedicate himself to other types of fields. “My father: ‘But do medicine’, my mother: ‘But do anything else’ and I wanted to be an actress.” she told the chef, remembering that she really liked cinema and theater, which she had already started to practice. Hiba remembers that he was “very sensitive” and that he was enthusiastic about reading, literature and poetry. “I wanted to dedicate myself to something that had to do with words, with characters.with what I felt when reading, was what made me happy,” he revealed about a passion that allowed him to “disconnect” and it was “where it was best.”
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What is Hiba Abouk’s relationship with her parents like?
The bond between the protagonist of ‘The Prince’ and her parents It has been an issue that has generated significant interest in the media in recent years, following some statements made by Abouk herself. In 2014, in an interview for Marie Claire, He admitted that the relationship with them was “null”. And precisely he pointed out how reason for the distancing that initial reaction to his desire to enter the world of actingensuring that his family was not “easy.”
Things would change as the years went by. Thus, a few months later he would talk about there was no “bad relationship” and that they would see each other for Christmaspointing out that the press had misinterpreted things. In later years he would give more details about his estrangement: “I simply decided that I was going to try and that time would put everyone in their place“, spoke about his vocation in 2017, while to Icon in 2018 he revealed that They had been “angry for a couple of years”. In 2014, in an interview with Vicky Martín Berrocal, he acknowledged that his parents “had no other choice” rather than accept it, speaking of his bond with his mother as a “normal” one.
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