02/05/2021 11:56
Clarín.com
Fame
Updated 02/05/2021 1:23 PM
Her name is
Karina Gao
(36) and she is a well-known influencer in the kitchen on social networks, with followers to whom she shares recipes and different gastronomic projects.
That renown and her friendly personality made her earn a place in
Flor de equipo
(Telefe, Monday through Friday at 11),
Florencia Peña's program
.
However, in recent days, Karina made the news because she was infected with the
coronavirus
while she is in the fifth month of her
pregnancy
, the condition worsened and she had to be admitted to intensive care.
The latest information is dramatic:
on her social media she announced that she had to be induced into a pharmacological coma
.
"Pray for me," wrote the Chinese-born cook.
"This is going to be my last message to this beautiful community, who have accompanied me during these 5 years," he said Friday morning.
And he added: "I am going to ask you one last favor to pray for me. They are going to induce me to eat in 15 minutes, we don't know when I'm going to wake up."
The dramatic message of the cook Karina Gao in her networks.
Kari had to be hospitalized this week as a result of bilateral pneumonia, and on Thursday she was transferred to intensive care.
She was counting the minute by minute of the treatment to raise awareness and inform her followers, who are more than 400 thousand on Instagram alone.
"Yesterday afternoon everything was half to the bottom. I began to not saturate well and it was difficult for me to breathe a lot. The fever continued to persist strong. I was very afraid yesterday, I honestly thought about everything. I spent the night as I could," the cook lamented, before the situation got even worse.
"I'm going to be fine, how could I not be with so many messages of love and support from this community. Thank you, thank you, thank you ... I am very lucky to always have them. In good times and in bad times," he wrote in another post. , one of the last before being induced into a pharmacological coma.
Karina Gao in one of her last posts before being induced into a drug coma.
Karina came to the country in 1993 with her parents, when she was 9 years old.
Although in different notes she said that she suffered adversities due to her oriental origins, she always highlighted the hospitality she felt in Argentina and her history of overcoming made her receive a degree in Business Economics, wrote books and created her own cooking blog.
"When we arrived it was difficult. We had a house there, and here we went to live in a room. I didn't have a bed, I slept on top of a dresser that my parents found on the street, and I didn't know a word in Spanish. Teachers were nice, but the subject of classmates was more complicated. I suffered a lot of bullying and that was quite hard for me, "he said in an interview with
Musa
magazine
.
Karina Gao with her husband Dominique, whom she met in France.
At 22 she went to live in France, where she did a master's degree and met
Dominique
, her current husband.
She spent three years in Europe until, overturned by affections, she decided to return to Argentina, this time accompanied by her partner.
"10 years ago I arrived in Buenos Aires with a concentrate of my French life in two suitcases and with the intention of convincing Kari to return to France. But my power of conviction did not measure up to the love that Karina has for her country" Dominique recently recounted, summarizing the romantic story that linked their lives across the world.
Cook Karina Gao, happy with her pregnancy in a recent photo.
When in 2015 she became pregnant with twins, Karina suffered complications and had to spend a lot of time in bed: there she devised her business projects, which were successfully transferred to the networks and ended up placing her in one of the leading programs on the morning of TV open.
In November 2020, the cook announced on the air that she was expecting her third child, a very celebrated moment in
Flor de Equipo
, where in these hours there are moments of deep anguish waiting for both Karina and her baby to recover as soon as possible possible.
@Karinagao gave beautiful news!
❤ The cook will be mom 👶😍 Congratulations!
👏 #FlorDeEquipo 👇 pic.twitter.com/GWfxL6Wxo1
- telefe (@telefe) November 9, 2020
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