The love story betweenMario Balotelli And Raffaella Fico took center stage on gossip websites and magazines from the summer of 2011 to the summer of 2012. Their relationship, turbulent and much talked about due to the footballer’s escapades, ended after just a year, but the couple remains together thanks to their daughter Pia, born five months after the end of their relationship.
The meeting at the disco
Summer 2011. Raffaella Fico is back from participating in the reality show “The Island of the Famous“, edition hosted by Simona Ventura on Rai2. In Honduras there is also Abigail Barwuah, Mario Balotelli’s sister, with whom Raffaella establishes a beautiful friendship. Returning from the survival experience, the two models stay in touch and one summer evening they find themselves spending an evening together at the Lotus in Milan, where the footballer is also present. Mario plays for Manchester City but has returned to Italy to take a few days off. In the club he is struck by Raffaella’s beauty and asks her sister Abigail for the model’s cell phone number to court her. “He got my number from his sister, then we started talking, we went out together and at the end of the evening he pulled a bunch of roses out of the hood of the car. rose“Raffaella will tell years later. It is the beginning of their love story.
Long distance love
The first public photos of the couple come out in September. Mario and Raffaella are photographed together in the streets of Milan during an afternoon of shopping. Balotelli joined his girlfriend from Manchester during a break from training and the relationship continues at a distance. While Mario is busy in the Premier League, Raffaella is in great demand on TV. In autumn 2011 she is in the cast of “Baila”, a dancing reality show hosted by Barbara d’Urso on Canale5, then she joins the cast of the Italia1 sitcom “That’s what they all do” alongside Alessia Marcuzzi and Debora Villa.
Cheating with the pornstar
November 2011. While Raffaella is busy on TV, on English press Some compromising photos of Balotelli come out. Super Mario is surprised by the English paparazzi in a hotel with the porn star Holly Henderson32 years old. The English tabloids talk about a flirt between the two and the footballer’s crisis with his girlfriend Raffaella. For Fico it is a hard blow, but despite the evidence of the betrayal being evident, the showgirl defends her relationship: “Mario gave me all the details I needed to be calm, he explained things to me calmly. He assured me that there was nothing between him and that girl.“.
SuperMario’s dramatic gestures
Between the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 Raffaella and Mario were going through a complicated time and everything was under the spotlight. For the Christmas holidays Fico joined her partner in Manchester and SuperMario ended up in the English tabloids for two dramatic gestures: first he offered drinks to the customers of a pub spending a thousand pounds, then he left two hundred dollars in the collection box of a church in the centre of Manchester, making the whole city talk. In January 2012 the couple was instead the protagonists of the Italian gossip magazines. Raffaella was the new testimonial for an underwear brand but the sexy photos of Fico literally infuriated Balotelli. Despite the rumours of crisis they chase each other, the couple remains united.
The wedding, Raffaella’s wish
In March 2012, Raffaella gave an interview to SportWeek talking about her future alongside Mario. “Mario is the man I love. We are engaged and very young. But if he asked me to marry him I would accept. I, like him, dream of a family”says the showgirl speaking of a possible marriage. Balotelli himself, a few days later, during another interview given to an English newspaper, confesses: “When you find the right person, it can be the time. Raffaella is the most beautiful thing that has happened to me. She gives me serenity, she is understanding when I mess up. I don’t mean that I cheat on her and I forgive. I say in general, he can understand me”The relationship seems to have a real future but a few weeks later another rumor comes out about an alleged betrayal by Super Mario.
Super Mario and the escort
The statements released by the VIP escort, Jenny Thompsontrigger yet another round of gossip. “Balotelli? I’d give him a 9.5 for sex. Wayne may be a better footballer, but in off-field performances Mario beats him on every front.”the woman declares and in Italy the escort’s words spark a scandal, also because the escort’s revelations are added to those of Chloe Evansa blonde and busty saleswoman from Manchester, who confesses to having had a secret relationship with the footballer. Raffaella makes the best of a bad situation, but for the gossip magazines it is a very hard blow to the stability of the couple, so much so that at the end of April there is talk of an irreparable crisis between Balotelli and his girlfriend. The two no longer appear in public, Raffaella does not join Mario in Manchester as she used to do. For a long time the story has reached the end of the line.
The official farewell
May 2012. The relationship between Mario and Raffaella ends in the worst possible way. After yet another rumour about infidelity, Raffaella flies to Manchester to pack her things and leave Mario’s life for good. A furious fight breaks out in Balotelli’s villa in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, and the English newspapers even report the intervention of police to calm things down between the now two ex-lovers.
The twist: the pregnancy
July 2012, the Europeans football are taking centre stage and Raffaella Fico announces on the pages of the magazine Chi that she is pregnant. The father of her first child is Balotelli and the showgirl tells how she informed her ex-boyfriend of the pregnancy: “I called Mario while he was in retreat with the national team, the day before the match against Germany. I told him: ‘Do you remember our dream of becoming parents? Well, that dream has come true. I’m waiting for a child. Your baby.’ He was silent at first. Then he let go. ‘You gave me the most beautiful news in the world.’“. The next day SuperMario scores two important goals with the Azzurri shirt. Balotelli’s initial enthusiasm, however, gives way to doubts and coldness. The footballer asks to be able to carry out the DNA test to find out if the child Raffaella is expecting, a little girl, is really his. While Mario is not ready to take responsibility, Raffaella declares: “I didn’t frame Mario. I don’t want money, the truth is that we both wanted this child”. Then it emerges that at Christmas 2011 Mario had asked his ex-partner to marry him and that she had said yes.
The return of the flame
Summer 2012. After a brief flirt with Desirèe Busetto, Balotelli retraces his steps and gets closer to Raffaella, who in the meantime is in her seventh month and proudly shows off her baby bump on the catwalk of Milan Fashion Week. The pregnancy seems to have softened SuperMario who, in September 2012, releases an official statement in which he confirms that the romance between him and Raffaella has returned. serene: “I decided to try again with Raffaella. There was no DNA test and it has nothing to do with my decision. However, in that situation I would have asked anyone for the test, it does not depend on Raffaella. I am sorry for everything that has happened in these last months and especially for what has been said and written. I ask everyone once again to respect our private life which must remain private in the future by my commitment and also by Raffaella. There will be no other press releases or interviews”But the idyll lasts very little.
The Birth of Pia
In November 2012 Mario was caught at the Clubbing in Rovato in the company of Emy Jammoukhwith whom he flirted all night. Raffaella doesn’t comment, but lets off steam: “I’m just saying that to be a good father it’s not enough to lend your DNA. A good father must be close to the woman with whom he has chosen to have a child.”. On December 5, 2012, Pia, the firstborn of Balotelli and Raffaella Fico, was born, but the footballer only recognized the child in 2014. The relationship between the two exes was very tense and the showgirl, a few weeks after Pia’s birth, made fiery statements in Chi: “Mario is irresponsible to me. At a certain point he was no longer interested in anything, neither in me nor in our daughter.”. Following these sentences Mario sues his ex-girlfriend and all relations between the two end.
Mario Balotelli and Raffaella Fico today
In February 2014 Mario Balotelli recognized his daughter Pia and relations with his former partner returned to being serene even though both had turned the page.
Mario Balotelli’s last relationship dates back to last summer, when he was seen in Venice in the company of a mysterious blonde. Raffaella Fico is also reportedly single, but until last year she was linked to entrepreneur Piero Neri.