2023-09-16 22:09:03
Dreams and thoughts know no barriers.
Verona Pooth, then still Feldbusch, born in La Paz in Bolivia, grew up in Hamburg, was a happy, bright child with a lot of imagination.
“I was full of energy and had a lot of crazy ideas in my head,” she tells BILD. “I always dreamed of opening my umbrella like Mary Poppins and flying from one great place to the next.”
Verona as a little girl on her first bike
She remembers: “My first report card said: Verona is easily distracted, but is enthusiastic about creative work. And she distributes her lunch to socially disadvantaged children.”
Her friends said she had “helper syndrome,” said Verona Pooth. “I actually wanted to study psychology and deal with children who were difficult to raise.” The studies didn’t work out because Verona decided to drop out of higher business school.
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She was committed to SOS Children’s Villages and has been an ambassador for over 25 years. “In my home country of Bolivia, an SOS Children’s Village was named after me: Veronas Casitas. I collected a million euros in donations in one year and invested part of my advertising income.”
Verona Pooth – advertising icon of the 90s
Because Verona Pooth was THE advertising icon of the 90s and 2000s (“Here you will be helped”, “Iglo Cream Spinach with the Blubb”). She was discovered as a model at the age of 15 and became, among other things, Miss Germany, singer of the band Chocolate (“Ritmo De La Noche”), TV presenter and actress.
The one with the Blubb: Verona’s spinach ad became cult
Foto: action press
Today she is a successful entrepreneur: “The feeling of slowly rising from the bottom to the top was a wonderful feeling. I’ll never forget that. From little Miss Hamburg to multi-millionaire.”
1990: Verona, then still Feldbusch, sings “Ritmo de la noche” at a performance
Foto: PB Archive/Getty Images
And yet the feeling of “not knowing how I’m going to pay my rent” remains etched in her mind to this day. “When I was 21, I opened a fashion studio with my girlfriend. The rent was very high and I had invested all my savings in the deposit, sewing machines and fabrics.
There were often problems paying bills and rent on time. With hard work and discipline, we finally made our breakthrough as designers. We were invited onto television shows and the media reported on us.”
Were her parents ever afraid that she would go astray? “Never. I always had concrete plans and was a kind of entrepreneurial child from an early age. My parents were always proud of me.”
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The parents’ divorce, Verona was ten, and their deaths (Ernst Feldbusch died in 2003, Luisa Feldbusch in 2015) are still influential in Verona today. “My beloved dad had a similar sense of humor to Harald Schmidt on his late night show. My mother developed dementia when I was 30. That was a difficult time for me.”
At around the same time she met her future husband, Franjo Pooth. “Franjo is the love of my life,” she says. “We swore our love for each other in 2004, in good times and bad. I took his name. We don’t have a marriage contract, we have two wonderful sons and we believe that only death separates us.”
So romantic: Verona marries her Franjo in Vienna
Photo: Schneider-Press/S.Rex
Short marriage to Dieter Bohlen
In May 1996, Verona married pop titan Dieter Bohlen (now 69) in Las Vegas, and after four weeks she filed for divorce.
“This short marriage catapulted me into the media, all the way to the top. But don’t forget him too. The divorce was the big bang of nothingness, overnight there was no other public issue.”
Verona and Dieter Bohlen were married for a year
Foto: PB Archive/Getty Images
May 13, 1996: Verona marries Dieter Bohlen in Las Vegas
Photo: BILDARCH
She sometimes smiles about how she managed to make the public think she was a “stupid”: “I loved the era of underestimation. Nowadays I rarely feel this. Even though women are unfortunately still underestimated compared to men. No matter how successful they are.”
Happy family: Verona with husband Franjo (54) and their sons San Diego (20) and Rocco (12)
Photo: Frank Fastner
What do you do after work?
BILD: What book are you currently reading?
Verona Pooth: “The proofs of my own book.”
The book will be published on October 18th
What are you particularly looking forward to in the coming week?
Pooth: “That from Tuesday you can pre-order my book ‘Die Supermilf’ (meaning: The super woman in life).”
Do you have a Sunday ritual?
Pooth: “Yes, doing things mainly with the family. For example, a bike ride, washing the car, having a barbecue or going on a sloop to the lake in Holland.”
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This article comes from BILD. The ePaper of the entire issue is available here.
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