Love for Leontine

I was also curious about the new LINDA., because I also had my ideas about the fact that our Minister of Health was on the cover (that costs you a day, which you could have spent on combating corona, it seems quite vain and it's not like your job is done, there were a few of those, and on the other hand: if this is his hobby, who am I to begrudge him, the man works incredibly hard and really does what he thinks is best and if he enjoys seeing this period documented: let him), but mainly I immediately flipped through – after reading Linda's foreword, which I always find such an honest and delightful introduction to the magazine – to the interview with Leontine.

A few things that immediately stand out. 1. The photos taken by Philippe Vogelenzang: what a beautiful whole. Woman, composition, light, emotion… I hope Leontine hangs them on the wall.

Then 2. The last name. Ruiters. Here no Hollywood wife clinging to her husband's name like a drowning person to a lifebuoy. Nothing. Straight shoulders, same back and her own last name. Firstly, Leontine has enough name recognition to manage without the addition Borsato and actually she still has a right to that last name because the two are supposedly cautiously dating again. The chance that that last name will become hers again is therefore considerable. But hats off to female independence.

But then the interview itself. Just a few statements. ‘If someone is unfaithful in a marriage, it doesn't mean that person is just bad. There are reasons for it. Our family has been through a lot in the past twenty years, we have lived in a pressure cooker together. Marco wasn't always there for me and I wasn't always there for him. And then he chose a different path. A wrong path, he thinks so too, a bit stupid, but we are all human.’

And then about the fact that she didn't feel humiliated. ‘Not at all. Because it doesn't have to do with me. It was also his pain, his sadness.’

And when you think: it can't get more generous than this, she talks about her meeting with Iris Hond in the restroom of a restaurant. ‘It was a friendly meeting because I wish her well, I also said that she finds a new love. Women who are with married men are often labeled as mean, but they are also people of flesh and blood, who may have lost their connection with themselves along the way.’

Leontine, I think you are gold and maybe even more beautiful on the inside than on the outside. And that new LINDA. is great again, so buy that magazine.

Image: Linda Magazine