Photo: Francisca Méndez-Zampogna / Courtesy
Double dream for Francisca, who from today is not only an American citizen after swearing her naturalization
, but is no longer Lachapel, he changed his last name!
In a day full of emotions, accompanied by her best friend, Taña Orduña, and her husband Francesco Zampogna, who due to COVID protocol waited for her from another room, as we anticipated yesterday, Francisca swore her American citizenship and shared it with her colleagues from ‘Despierta América’, with great emotion she detailed the before , during and after.
“We did it… We did it guys I am very happy, very happy, very excited about my naturalization certificate, now officially a citizen of this great nation that has given me so many opportunities. With great pride raising this flag of a country that opened the doors, and has allowed me to achieve each of my dreams… I cried a lot, the ceremony is very beautiful, I am very happy to being able to share it with you “, Francisca told her colleagues who, from the floor of the ‘Happiest House on Hispanic Television’, were as or more excited than her.
Dressed in a little white suit, waving her American flag and her citizenship documents, Francisca continued telling Karla Martínez, Satcha Pretto, Jessi Rodríguez , Alan Tacher, Carlos Calderón, Chef Yisus Díaz and Raúl González the following.
“I saw this moment very far away, I would have liked my mother to be here because I remember a lot when she and I fantasized sitting in the patio of our house , and we talked about: ‘we don’t have a family, or a cousin far away’, and I told her, ‘don’t worry, one day we will live there’… I did it to make her feel good, but we managed ”.
Already excited to live this great moment, and with a broken voice, she ended up telling her classmates: “ Diosito has blessed us a lot, he has never let us go by hand, and little by little we have achieved the goal… Some 11 years for this moment to pass, I know that many are waiting for more to solve their immigration situation, don’t lose hope, God’s times are completed when they have to be”.
As we told you at the beginning, Francisca had a double achievement today, not only did she become a citizen, but she also decided to change her last name, remember that she used the of her ex-husband, the one she kept, despite the divorce, because that’s how she became famous.
However, since she married the father of her son Gennaro, Francesco Zampogan, and even more so when she became pregnant, she felt that it was disrespectful to her family to continue using it even if it is in an artistic way.
He started removing it from his social networks where from long ago it was just ‘Francisca’, but taking advantage of all this legal process, made her new name official and surname that she assures she will keep forever by right and by love and from today the presenter of ‘Despierta América’ is Francisca Méndez-Zampogna.
SEE HERE THE MOMENT THAT FRANCISCA SHARES WITH HER FAMILY:
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