Luisa Corna, her marriage to Stefano and the choice not to have children

Luisa Corna and her husband Stefano

“Since my husband and his children have been here, I have seen the world through their eyes.” Luisa Corna talks about herself in the round Today, in the issue on newsstands Thursday 18 Junestarting from the children’s fairy tale he has just written, Tofu and the plastic island. «I really enjoyed writing it. I’m very careful in this case, but it’s also a paper, a small map in the unsorted waste, the kids immediately point out to me that maybe it’s plastic instead.”

A different motherhood

This is how she explains the choice not to have children: «When I met him, my husband’s youngest daughter was about three and a half years old, it came naturally to me to look after his children as if they were my own. I have never felt such an indispensable need to have a child myself. I had some thoughts, but they didn’t stay. My motherhood was fulfilled by them, by them being present.”

The cover of the new issue of Oggi on newsstands

Marriage to a policeman

Married to Carabinieri officer, Stefano Giovinothey live in the barracks and he talks about their life: «It’s demanding. First of all because we often move house and therefore we always have to move. I have the possibility thanks to my job, for other women who have more permanent jobs, it would be a little more difficult, right? … With another aspect: it is easy to be in danger and it is always fearful that something might happen… I live in the barracks, together with my aunt and other families. And the force is also a beautiful, large, united family.”