She grew up with an abusive father ("he murdered our soul"), almost gave birth live and reinvented herself in Corona • Anat Madani ("Nati I Came to Perform") conveys values and love to children, and also has a message for women who live in fear: "Do not be silent "
"I took the corona as an opportunity."
Anat Madani as "I arrived, I showed up"
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Eric Sultan, Makeup: Rose in Dosa
When was the last time you said "I love you"?
"This morning. Every morning I say this to both Eyal's husband and children. Every evening I recite a prayer of thanksgiving, which is a prayer that is very important to me, and in the morning I bless the blessing of dawn. These are things that put me in proportion and remind me that nothing is taken for granted. It's the little things, like hugging the immediate family, kissing mom and going to the playground, that matter.No day Eyal and the kids do not tell me they love me, even yell at me from the computer when the kids are home and learning to zoom in. We really have a house of love.
Eyal came into my life when I was 24. He was divorced with two children who came to see a show I participated in. At the end of the show they came to ask me for an autograph behind the scenes and his kids wanted to be photographed with me, meaning he wanted and they collaborated - and the rest was history. Our love, I was a young bachelor and he was already divorced with two children, but I saw that a serious and mature bond was formed. The connection between me and Eyal, our similar past and the love he showered on me gave me the confidence I needed. Today we have three children together, only "Waiting for their big brothers to come. I won, and the big kids say they won too."
When was the last time you showed up?
"I had a show at home last Thursday and I do free live shows every week for my Facebook, YouTube and Instagram subscribers. I decided to do a regular show every Thursday at 5:30 pm and it has activities, songs, dances and creation. In front of an audience I performed before the last closure In Mini Israel, in the open air, and I felt like it was like the first show in my life. In between I did a tour with a truck in all the settlements in the Gaza Strip. For five days I went through dozens of settlements and delighted families celebrating birthdays, bar mitzvahs and more. "And the father said that I made his daughter happy when she was sick and they did not forget it, even though quite a long time has passed since then. The love and joy I shed returned to me in a huge way."
When was the last time you were ashamed?
"Until I became 'I came I showed up' I was ashamed of my height. I am a meter and 53 cm and I was always on my heels.
I was also looking for a boost in sneakers.
It's been eight years, since I've been Nati's character, that I do not want to go on heels.
Something in me became the character of this girl, who is a kind of patch for my childhood.
I feel at the height of the kids and want to convey to them the content at their height, literally.
Today I understand that if you can take your weaknesses and turn them into strengths, you will be the strongest.
I did it naturally, once I got into Nati, and I'm not ashamed anymore.
In high school I was called a smurf and there were times when I felt less beautiful and successful than others, who were taller.
Once it sat on me, today kids tell me I'm tall and it's funny to me.
I even got to play a giraffe in a children's show, it was a bit of a closing circle. "
When was the last time a dramatic event happened to you?
" Nine months ago I gave birth to my youngest son, Gal Lee-On, and I had live episodes, in the middle of an interview with Paula and Leon Rosenberg.
I told them ironically, 'Be careful I do not give birth to you on the broadcast,' and so it was.
Paula handed me a glass of water, Leon cleared me out of the studio and I drove to Ichilov.
I am a believing and very traditional person, and when I read the birth prayer that opened with 'Give me strength, give me strength', it connected me with Leon who helped me.
"After the birth we went back to making the covenant live on their show. Except for the cut, because it's private, they showed everything - the blessings, the announcement of the name. We chose the name Lee-On because as its name implies, it is my power. Seeing and smelling it is a pleasure. .
"I hope I am a good mother, kids say I do, but we, the mothers and parents in general, there is always guilty.
The corona period and closures are very not simple, during the day there is almost nothing I can do for myself, just move from child to child, take care of them and help them.
It is difficult to maneuver in between and it was not easy to find time to create or be Nati and photograph greetings and send to the people who ask. "
When was the last time you fulfilled a dream?
"I'm fulfilling a dream now. As a child I was once and only in a hotel, at the age of 12. I sat mesmerized in front of the show that was there and wanted to do it. I dreamed of being on an entertainment team, I knew that was what I would do the day I was discharged from the army. I was exposed to plays, musicals, dancing and singing. I was very enthusiastic and very quickly found myself starring on stage, and could not believe it was happening to me. I felt like a child star there and even then I knew it was my mission.
"I later returned from Eilat to the center of the country. I studied and did a degree in business administration and a teaching certificate, but the bacterium did not let go.
I studied acting with Yoram Levinstein, did a acting course in front of a camera and played in children's and adult plays, but I always knew I wanted to focus on the world of children.
When I worked as a caller I wrote down my future in a notebook, planned what I wanted to do to conquer the children and even what outfit I would have.
I knew exactly what I would be, I was always looking for what and today I know I fulfilled it. "
When was the last time you visited your mother?
"Last Friday, after two months of not seeing her. My mother, Jacqueline Shoshani, lives in Bat Yam. I was with her with my four sisters and all the nephews, as every Friday when possible. I was so missing in the closure, I did not see my mother for two months. "Because we kept her in Corona and it was a very difficult time, which I hope she's behind us. Mom has the most delicious couscous, the best cup of tea and the softest cookies.
" Of my sisters, none in the field of entertainment.
I have a nurse nurse, a lawyer nurse and two high-tech nurses.
They are all very supportive of me and come to all my premieres.
We grew up together and there are three sisters in the room, but Mom did not let us feel distressed.
If I needed anything she bought it for me, and when we had nothing to pay bills for, after Dad stopped giving money, I helped my mother with a mortgage until a late age and financed everything myself, including a driver's license, car and studies.
He who comes from difficulty knows how to appreciate more, and is also easier for him than he who encounters an unexpected difficulty.
I feel like I can handle a lot of things in life, like the corona, for example, which even made me realize that there is a power within me that others may not have. "
When was the last time you experienced violence?
"At 13. my life is divided into before and after this day, and there I started breathing. I grew up in a violent home and I bite my nails to this day because of the fear I have from age 6. It's something that always accompanies me. My father was an unexpected man and I was afraid of him coming home, Because we did not know what mood he would come in. He could throw something, curse and beat my mother. That day he was finally taken out of the house and given a restraining order. It happened after he got home nervous and for no reason threatened and threw things at mother. She She was beaten and we girls went into the room and defended her. Mother slipped away from him and turned to the police.
"Whenever she called the police after violence on his part, they told her, 'Ma'am, you should come to the station,' but she was afraid to come.
She had five little girls at home and he always apologized, but that day she brought police home and for the first time they took him out.
Since we started living, I have slowly returned to breathing.
Until then it was a different childhood.
He hurt his son in other ways, not physically.
There was verbal violence against us, but to see your mother in such a situation, it's worse for me than if he had hit me.
It is to murder the soul and always live in fear.
I remember I just wanted him not to come home.
When I was 15, he divorced my mother. "
When was the last time you were angry?
"The last anger I felt was about the murder of Diana Deadbeev. I was just thinking about the children, how could the killer leave four little orphans without their mother? No one would treat them like a mother. I thought how could such a terrible thing happen again and another woman murdered, and more One. This murder brought me back to the scared girl I was, who saw everything. My father threatened Mom and told her 'I will kill you,' and I could be like Diana's children.
"I appeal to mothers and women who experience this fear - do not be silent!
Tell someone, do not keep this nightmare to yourself.
Do not be silent, because it does harm to children.
With us the neighbors heard and chose to ignore, perhaps because they were afraid to put themselves into it, but today there is more awareness.
My mother did not complain because she was very afraid that if she complained they would not do enough and he would come back and avenge us.
The police should do more and not turn a blind eye when there are recurring threats.
Every complaint must be examined in depth.
"Today I believe I went through what I went through because my mission is to pass on the messages, not to be silent in the face of violence, to save families, to pass on values of caring, of devotion, of love."
When was the last time you received or gave good advice?
"I gave myself good advice after canceling 40 shows at the beginning of the corona, and then during my maternity leave I realized I needed to reinvent myself. Parents wrote to me that I was the heroine of their children, and their blessings and reinforcements helped me understand that I needed to show up again and not worry or cry. There's a well-known Winston Churchill phrase, 'a pessimist sees difficulty at every opportunity, an optimist sees opportunity at every difficulty,' so I took the corona as an opportunity. I started creating at home, with all the clutter and clutter and the new baby. I started doing live broadcasts, I recorded 700 Congratulations videos with names for children, I created a new series called 'Nati's Challenge' - and all by myself. I wrote, filmed, directed, acted and put on my own makeup, I just took an editor, and that's it. "OK. I became more funny and flowing, a lot of new things came out of me and I discovered things I did not know about myself."
When was the last time you failed?
"I have ADHD and also 'hyper'. I'm on turbo, and it's kind of a daily sense of failure because I can't finish tasks. I answer an email and suddenly something else pops up in me and I go to it and forget to answer. I wash dishes and suddenly jump in. A song in my head like "What a happy day, everything is blooming, the birds are singing too, a new day is heralding." If I hadn't been disturbed I might not have been able to write songs while washing dishes. "
When was the last time you got excited?
"At Hanukkah I shot a clip with my Variety kids. We did a remake of the song 'LIGHT A CANDLE' with kids with special needs and created a lovely song that got a lot of reactions. I have a special relationship with kids like that, also because my mom worked with them and saw how she takes care of them. Trying to incorporate them into the usual things I do, even if they are different, I insist on attaching them so they do not shy away from them.I take this as a life project because I want them to know how to accept the other, even if externally it looks different.In general, it is important to me that children know how "Connect with each other, respect each other and remember not to boycott any child. I am in contact with many children, including a special boy named David whose parents asked me for a blessing and I decided to surprise him and come home to him, and since then we are in a very exciting relationship.
" I'm done, because it's squeezing and I'm crying.
There was a mother who asked me to come to her daughter Schneider.
She suffered from a serious illness and had to have tests done, and thanks to me she did them all.
It excites me very much that I manage to touch people.
"I grew up on Uzi Hitman and Yigal Bashan, and today when I am told that they are growing up on me it is the happiest and most exciting, and reinforces the feeling that this is my mission. I was born to make children happy, make them laugh, have fun and pass on values."
When for the first time?
When did you first work?
"At the age of 13. I worked as a babysitter and gave private lessons to small children, after that I worked at Burger King and Superland, and when my mother would go cleaning stairs and work in the household, I came with her voluntarily because I wanted to both help her and be with her. But she, unlike me, puts pots for Friday dinner at an hour and I do like her, only it takes me seven hours. My mother worked all her life, a lot of jobs, and today she is very happy. She recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from her job. She works at Confectionery at Coffee. "Ruthie's Bar Bro, and Ruthie is the woman with the biggest heart I've ever seen. She raised my mother's confidence and I thank her for that every day."
Anat Madani // 37 years old, actress and children's star in the form of "Nati I arrived I performed".
Lives in Rosh HaAyin, married to Eyal Madani, CEO of Mini Israel, and mother of Agam (9), Uri (7) and Gal Lee-On (9 months). She studied acting at the Yoram Levinstein Acting School and played in plays and series for children. Of Nati "directed by Shlomi Laniado, will soon release a series of books based on the series" Good night with Nati "and will soon be filmed for a children's film directed by Kobi Mehat.
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