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Angeline shares love story, life as a mommy

By nathalie m tomaDa Philstar.com

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ANGELINE Quinto said that when her adoptive mom, Sylvia “Mama Bob” Quinto, passed away, she lost all desire to work and perform. But then, motherhood happened. It gave the singer-actress a newfound purpose in life.

Her son Aziel Sylvio, who was named after her Mama Bob, just turned one last April 27.

“The happiness na in-expect ko, mas sobra pala. Iba pala talaga. Siguro ang masasabi ko, hindi siya madali. But yung pagbalanse ng oras sa work and sa anak, yun ang talagang mas inayos ko. (The happiness that I expected turned out to be more. It’s really different. Maybe what I can say is, it’s not easy. Balancing my time between work and caring for my child, that’s what I really worked on more),” Angeline told The STAR in a recent interview.

The first time she saw her baby boy, the 33-yearold newbie mommy was so scared to hold him. “Kasi ang liit-liit niya. Sabi sa akin ng isang nurse, ma’am hindi kita tuturuan (paano hahawakan siya) subukan mo lang. Tapos pagbuhat ko sa kanya marunong pala ako. (Because he was so small. And then a nurse told me, ma’am I won’t teach you how to hold him, just try. When I carried him, I actually knew how to do it),” she recalled. ko lang in-expect na parang kakawala lang kasi ni Mama, wala pang one year, nung nalaman kong buntis ako. Pero sobrang nagpapasalamat ako kasi dumating siya. Kasi pagkawala ni Mama, hindi ko kakayanin. (It’s not that I didn’t want to, but I just didn’t expect it because Mama had just passed away, less than a year from when I found out I was pregnant. But I am very thankful that he came. Because after losing Mama, I couldn’t handle it.) She continued, “It got to the point where I didn’t want to work, I didn’t want to sing, I didn’t want to do anything. When Mama was gone, I thought, for whom am I working hard for? Para kanino ako nagpapagod?”

“Yun din ang tinanong ko sa Diyos, kung wala ang Mama, ano ang purpose ko sa buhay?

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