A showbiz personality she will always be but now Donna Cruz is first and foremost wife and mother. Donna and husband Dr. Yong Larrazabal are the proud parents of two children Isabella, 5; and Cian (Potentiano lV), 2. They plan to have two more kids.
Donna, 28, has been based in Cebu ever since she and Yong got married seven years ago, and she loves it there she said. "Masaya ako doon, tahimik at hindi pressured ang buhay, unlike in Manila." She loves taking care of her children and doesnt rely so much on the yayas.
In Cebu, Donna had time to study and she proudly told us she has finished her Computer Science degree. The first thing she did was to create a website for her husband www.sightfirstclinics.com. Yong, by the way, is an opthalmologist at the Cebu Doctors University where he graduated and where Donna also took up Computer Science.
Life for them would even be happier, Donna said when theyve moved to their own house which they are building at the Maria Luisa Subdv. The house, which she described as Yongs dream house, is situated on top of the hill, in a 3,000 sq.meter lot (the house will occupy more than 1,000 sq. meters) and will be "an ideal location for my kids who are asthmatic." Hopefully, after July their house would be ready for them to move into. And by that time, Donna would find time to learn how to cook, because shell be having a very spacious and lovely kitchen.
Donna and family were in Manila last week for a guesting on "SOP," and for the launch of her and her childrens Jollibee commercial. (Yes, her family, especially her children patronize Jollibee, "kahit araw-araw Jollibee chicken, lumpiang shanghai or spaghetti ang kakainin nila," Donna said.). Donna calls herself a "Jollibee baby." She made her first Jollibee commercial when she was just 17. The year after that, she made another one, but with Geneva Cruz, Donita Rose and Vina Morales. When she was 19, she along with Donita, Vina and Aga did another commercial for the fastfood chain.
Over an intimate lunch at Sugi in Greenbelt 2, we asked Donna if it were true she was a battered wife as reported sometime in the recent past in the tabloids. Donna denied this vehemently, saying she did not know how this came about. "I know this came from Cebu where weve been the subject of tsismis a lot of times. But thats not true at all. My husband is a most loving and most gentle husband. I didnt have a relative or a friend in Cebu and if he ever did this to me, if I were a battered wife, umalis na sana ako doon, iniwan ko na sana siya kaagad. But no, Yong would never hurt me in any way."
It was love at first sight for both Yong and Donna. They met on a blind date, and the attractive between the two of them sparked right away. They met in December and in January, he proposed marriage already. At that time, Donna was still sleeping with her mother! So the first thing she did was to learn how to sleep alone in her own room to show to her parents that shes old enough to have a boyfriend and eventually got married.
"Yong was my first love and first boyfriend," Donna said. Yong is nine years older than Donna. After their marriage, she still received movie offers but they were for bold and sexy roles and of course Yong did not allow her to them. Donna herself wont be comfortable doing love scenes even if it were for the screen. She remembers having qualms about a kissing scene with co-star Ian Veneracion in their movie "Pangako ng Kahapon." That was her first and last kissing scene in a movie.
Every now and then, Donna would come to Manila to appear in TV shows like "SOP." She never really left showbiz but her family will always be her priority, she stressed. "But my door is open to showbiz jobs like recording and singing."
Donna was only four when she started singing with their familys band (747). Cousins Geneva and Sunshine also sang with 747. But her daughter Belle, whos in kindergarten, cant sing, "pero showbiz siya," Donna revealed.
By the way, the Jollibee commercial is the second commercial that Donna did with Belle. They made a Progress Milk commercial together when Belle was only 10 months old.
*credit to: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-132771258.html
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