"The biggest blessing of our lives. I'm on Cloud 9."
Some years ago now, six maybe, I spent two days documenting the life of Italo Ferreira and, by extension, his then girlfriend, the Disney Brazil host and singer, Mari Azevedo.
At one point in the proceedings, as we ate a traditional Brazilian dinner of various meats festooned with banana, Mari broke into song, a beautiful ode to her lover called Voce.
“Butterflies that were never there come with your scent”
“The heart of stone you melted”
“You took care of me in ways that I could never imagine.”
I predicted a quick marriage, a baby or four and a decade of bliss before the lustre wore off and mammy and daddy started to sneer at each other in the hallway, daddy jerking off into the toilet bowl after lights out while mammy enjoyed BBC videos from her separate bedroom.
Well! How wrong!
Earlier today, Italo Ferreira, who just turned thirty-one, shocked his three million strong legion of fans, and busted more than a few hearts en route, by deleting every single post from his Instagram account and leaving but one post featuring a carousel of he and his nutritionist-model gal Sofia Larocca.
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The pair are photographed embracing while Larocca holds printouts of an ultrasound of the upcoming kid.
Italo posted a quote from from the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament, one of the Songs of Ascents which were likely sung by Jewish pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem for festivals like Passover, Pentecost, or Tabernacles.
“Children are a heritage from the Lord, a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior… ”
Salmos 127:3-5
Kids equal divine gift and source of strength, in other words.
Hard to argue with the premise.
Children are everything, in my opinion, and if you can punch out a few before you die, you won’t regret it.
Yeah, they might hate you down the line and blame you for all their ills, but there’s a sweet spot in there, six to twelve, where your life, and their lives, are sweet as can be.
Obvs, many surf stars jumped in below the line to congratulate Italo, including Doz, Jamie, Sterling, Raimana etc.
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Did I spy a product placement for a pregnancy test? Wow, that’s some desperate times!
The sweet spot dies before 12 years old… love the children regardless… but let’s be real… in the USA at least…
This makes me so glad I killed off Insta.
Congrats to them! But that photo shoot is what my own kids call “cringe.”
Just described my marriage to a tee at the 9yr point. Is the sneering/contempt inevitable? Most long-term relationships I know the male is nothing more than a hollowed out simp.
Time to start swinging. The scene is thriving …..apparently.
For gals! Men get to watch their wife get railed while they quiver in the corner.
I think inevitable. Gal told me post-kids, women just don’t look at the daddies the same.
Don’t marry a white girl. After that it’s easy.
💯
so, will he feed him red bull early on, or would that not be handy for naptime
Streaking down the line as some fellah in the box continually says. I would suggest that this young sheila is in for a rough ride down the line. Streaking, shrieking more like.
Stø-kid!!!….
kill him dead
Congrats to Italo, gosh, obviously Italo doesn’t fit the mysterious yet obvious criteria of what we usually label a ‘good human’, Rosy – for that we usually turn to other surfers – Steph, Erin, Mick, Griff n Croz come to mind – but gosh, Italo’s using bible verse here, he’s posting family friendly photo shoots full of smiles and tomfoolery and warmth. Wow!
His beautiful partner, Sofia, however, certainly seems to tick all the visual boxes that we require for ‘Good Human’ status… she also Loves to smile and sing and bring happiness wherever she goes. Gosh.
What’s your favourite trimester, Ro’?
Brazzos will always drop in but not much good at pulling out
Sooo…no more titles? Got it.
More to the point, how will this affect the chance of a long overdue pro surfer sextape getting out?
Always thought it’d be him or medina.
Is the celebrity sex tape dead, killed by Onlyfans?
Anyway.
Congrats Italo, well done.
That kid’s going to come out plastered in stickers, Red Bull merch and just ready to punch walls. Praise Jezus!
What sort of work has Italo had done?
DR?
I imagine he don’t like wrinkles.
Nose and jawline deffo tweaked.
My main pinch-point in my current campaign to get
backon the CT is the duty to get home in time to take or or other child to school.Why can’t the sun just come up at the same time every day and give me a decent hour in the salt?
Why the fuck do I pay my council rates!?!?
was cracking at 4pm – 100s out tho
“Children are a pain in the ass”
I wonder if his nutritionist/wife got him off redbull prior?
Imagine the sperm off its head on redbull just to inseminate that egg – all wearing caps tho!!
But good luck to him
I love the way his gals come down and cheer on his heats.
I think Kelly would have turned out a better man if Pammy and Gisele had showed up for him like that.
Nah he’d be the same
we’d be better off?
….and what of Cameron Diaz?
Jokes aside, Kelly dated women who had careers that were much more important to them than him and his global roaming. Good for them as they’re now independently wealthy and can tell their various husbands to kick rocks, if need be. I wouldn’t want to have a long-term with a global celeb and it’s seems that’s the case for most men. So many husbands running for the hills after a few years of dealing with these A-listers. I’ve always been head over heels for Natalie Portman but it’s obvious, seeing her ultra-celebrity lifestyle, that I wouldn’t want to be her husband. Not did her husband. Same for Jessica Alba.
I’m sure Nathalie is gutted you never sent her a message
But I did. Several.
She must have had poor internet over there in Paris.
Hi Anakin!
They come down to the beach because thats where they get their allowance.
just shocked the GOAT has yet to steal the spotlight and post baby photos of his own after Italo’s announcement…
“…and if you can punch out a few before you die, you won’t regret it.”
Probably a couple million people who might disagree with ya there, Dez. Some people need to stay child free, otherwise shit goes south real fast.
Fair call.
OK so I just went and punched a kid out……hope I don’t regret it as he did!