Ana Obregón strikes a summer pose in Mallorca with her daughter Anita: "She's a clone of her father."

PalmAna Obregón has once again struck the summer pose in Mallorca on the cover of the magazine Hello! with Anita, her two-year-and-five-month-old daughter, born from the frozen sperm of her late son. Five years after Aless's death, the actress and biologist opens the doors of El Manantial, the family residence on the Costa de los Pinos that she and her siblings have for sale. "It makes me very sad that this house is being sold. It will be difficult and hard, but I understand my siblings. It's hard to maintain such a large house, and above all, one with such an enormous emotional burden. Too many things are being said about the sale because there's nothing left to say. People from outside have come to see the house; none of them are Spanish!" the photo shoot in the mansion's gardens and pool. "What will I do in the summers with Anita? Look for somewhere else!" I would like Mallorca because it's like my second home, but I'm also very much in love with the north, for example, Cantabria..." she says about a future without El Manantial.

During the conversation, Obregón describes in detail her daily life with her daughter, amid baths, walks, and doctor visits. "She's very tall, weighs 17 kilos, and is the size of a four-year-old. I call her 'Anita Dinamita,' as they called me at university. She has more energy than her father—and he had a lot—and I combined. Anita is a miracle; she looks at me and it seems as if she's resurrected through her eyes," she says of her little girl. She shares her desire to dedicate time to herself and the need to keep an eye on her health for the little one's well-being. "I take her to the pediatrician every three or four months. My sister tells me I'm overdoing it, but I think it's logical and humane. Anita is the only thing I have in the world, and I don't want anything to happen to her." I need an hour to put her to sleep, but it's my wonderful time of day. She asks for applause. I don't know what she'll be, but I think she'll go more for an actress than anything else," she recounts in her favorite magazine.

The text reveals that the family home by the sea is a living memory of her son and, at the same time, a difficult decision to sell it to move on to new summers. "This house represents so much of my parents' and my son's lives," she states during a conversation in which she also shares her vision of grief: "Mourning changes when it's for a father, a mother... but for a son, mourning never changes. Bless me, Aless."

Intelligence quotient

Obregón also shares how, every day, she talks to Aless—who died of cancer five years ago—and tells Anita stories about her father to keep his legacy alive. She justifies her decision to use a surrogate mother with Aless's sperm and have Anita: "I inherited a high IQ from my father, and someone with that IQ doesn't make such an important decision in their life without thinking it through a lot. I thought about it for two years." She also reveals her recent career decisions, always prioritizing time with Anita and the responsibility of raising a two-year-old doll, when she is 70. "The only thing I regret in life is all the hours I worked instead of being with my son. I don't regret anything else. Now I don't want to miss anything about Anita. They will remember, and I said: 'Like the woman who lived intensely, who died with her son and who was resurrected with her granddaughter.'"