“In my life my cell phone has vibrated so much”said a euphoric Laura Valbonesi in one of her latest Instagram stories. The hurdle was high for the 25-year-old influencer, who has more than 220,000 followers on this social network.
Tens of thousands of people have joined her community in the last few hours after her husband, presidential candidate Daniel Noboa, caused an upset in the first round of Ecuador’s elections will ensure their presence at the vote next Octoberin which he will measure forces with the Correísmo candidate, Luisa Gonzalezto replace incumbent President Guillermo Lasso.
If achieved, Valbonesi would achieve it the first Internet content creator to serve as First Lady in the Andean country. An unprecedented case.
It’s the only couple by a presidential candidate that took an active part in the action. That’s why she enthusiastically celebrated the entry into the next round of her husband, son of tycoon Álvaro Noboa, who tried up to five times – unsuccessfully – to occupy the Carondelet Palace, the presidential residence in Quito.
“At first they didn’t trust him.. “They didn’t even want to give him a chance,” lamented Valbonesi. “But we made it, we went into the second round.”
The influencer shared Noboa’s messages on networks, accompanied him to various campaign events, which she even attended, and was present on Ecuador TV on the day of the presidential debate Her husband came with a bulletproof vest – she wore a white suit instead –. Noboa’s intervention that day in a personal conversation convinced many who were undecided.
But there wasn’t that fateful day when the campaign caravan her husband was traveling in was shot dead in the Durán canton of Guayaquil without any casualties.
Valbonesi was born in Chone in 1998 but grew up in the Galapagos Islands to a family of Italian-Ecuadorian descent and rose to fame online in 2018 as a fitness content creator. But soon the time had come caught up in a controversy over plagiarism of another influencer’s content. He pleaded guilty and lost several contracts with brands as a result.
None of this posed a problem for formalizing his relationship with Noboa in 2021, although they had met a few months earlier when the tycoon’s son asked him for advice on improving his diet. In 2022 As a fruit of their relationship, Álvaro was bornlike his paternal grandfather.