"Water is my element": Interview with Ildikó von Kürthy

Barbara: Ildikó, let's put it bluntly dialectically on the subject? Underwater? talk.

Ildikó: That sounds like summer, soft ice cream and a lot of bare skin. Are you on the title about to see in a swimsuit?

Barbara: Yes, I am so teasingly in the water. But only until the cleavage. So that you just see my narrow shoulders. The rest is graciously washed around.

Ildikó: If only my head can be seen in a photo, then everything is fine with me. The rest is a private matter.

Barbara: Do you like being in the water?

Ildikó: Yes, that's my element. I grew up in it, so to speak. My father, who was blind, and I swam together for miles in my childhood. In the water there are no steps and no obstacles. A great memory. Am I still feeling light and carefree in the water? and about 82 pounds lighter.



Barbara: The same thing happened to me. I love swimming. As a child I was practically in the water during the summer. In outdoor pools and so on.

Ildikó: I love swimming pools. The hustle and bustle, the noises, the children's pool in the pool ...

Barbara: I still like to go there with my children today. Bathe, play, hang out and then chips with ketchup as the main meal and four times in between ice cream. And water slides and stuff.

Ildikó: I am afraid of dark, narrow spaces. That's why I avoid water slides.

Barbara: And if your children want to thunder down there?

Ildikó: Then I address strangers and say: "Please take my child. It wants to slip. I'm waiting downstairs.? That always works.



Barbara: When, where and from whom did you learn to swim?

Ildikó: In a war blind home. I was five and my dad taught me. I can still hear him shouting: "My darling can swim !?, when I made the first moves. He was incredibly proud.

Barbara: I was baby swimming with my mother. Then again and again as a toddler in baths. I learned that early.

Ildikó: And now trophy comparison: Which badges do you have?

Barbara: Only free float.

Ildikó: Of course, I have all the ones below this DLRG badge.

Barbara: Wow!

Ildikó: And I used to be proud of them too. Like a advertising pillar.

Barbara: Can you really cuddle good too?



Ildikó: What a question! I also can dolphin. On land, but I'm clearly awkward. You should see me hit a bike. Degrading.

Barbara: We should have photographed you with swimming goggles.

Ildikó: They always express themselves in the facial flesh. When I was swimming in the morning, I still look battered in the evening.

Barbara: The things practically push one's eyes out, that's how firm they are. If you use them too often, you get a kind of eyebrow cornea.

Ildikó: That sounds even more disgusting than facial meat.

Barbara: Let's leave that. Have you ever jumped from the threesome?
Ildikó: Yes, but I do not dare to be a coward.

Barbara: Not me either. I only make a candle.

Ildikó: The main thing, fast into the water. There is a weight limit with me, from which I definitely watch, not unnecessarily rumzulungern on the edge of the pool.

Barbara: Yes, the swimwear thing. It is always said that dressing rooms look so unfavorable because the light comes from above. Only then did I realize that the light at the sea or the sea is coming from above. You look as crazy as in dressing rooms.

Ildikó: That's why I always run into the water at the same time.

Barbara: No matter how cold it is?

Ildikó: Well, if I find myself in a rather difficult phase of my life, I need more time. Then I also stand for a quarter of an hour to the belly in the water and then turn back to despair. You can draw conclusions about my mood from my walk into the water.

Barbara: What do you prefer to wear: bikini or swimsuit?

Ildikó: Every year I think: Now is the end of the bikini time. But then I say to myself: What is it? I am not a model and I do not have to earn money with my body. And even a swimsuit can not do anything against flabby upper arms and greasy knees.

Barbara: I still wear both. But sometimes I look jealous when I see younger ones in such tiny little particles, where nothing is hanging.

Ildikó: Then I try to cheer me up and think: I am a mother of two. That does not stop without a trace. But then I hear that the Crunchy with the Minitanga has five children.

Barbara: For that you are smarter.

Ildikó: I also experienced BikiniModel women with a doctor in physics. This is of course devastating.And the grief goes on even after bathing: You can not undress a wet swimsuit elegantly.

Barbara: I never do that either.

Ildikó: As? You cut him open and buy a new one?

Barbara: Nah, I always leave it on and just wait until it's dry. What else: Where do you prefer to vacation? At the sea or in the mountains?

Ildikó: I am scared of heights. What am I supposed to do in the mountains? I prefer lakes or swimming pools in the North German Plain. And you?

Barbara: Wild driving on the sea in motor boats in a flapping linen kaftan? is not my holiday world. And do not fry on the beach either. I prefer to be in the mountains. With a lake nearby.

Ildikó: I do not have that beach either. I like to go there for so long and listen to the waves. And in the evening an alcoholic cocktail with horizon view. I have nothing against that.

Barbara: I can not spend hours lying around somewhere. Because I'm totally hot. And at some point, the kids do not feel like buckets and slush anymore. Lakes with interesting surroundings simply offer more than sea.

Ildikó: My most beautiful holiday memory has to do with a lake. That was in Hungary, at Lake Balaton. I swam out with my dad. It was warm. The sun was shining. And I saw his broad back in front of me as he paced quietly and evenly. Like a big, friendly whale. That was a deep sense of peace and security.

Barbara: And your worst water experience?

Ildikó: When we both got into a storm while sailing with friends. There I sat in the belly of the boat and was afraid of these unleashed forces of nature.

Barbara: I know that too. I was invited to a sailing trip around the Isle of Wight? on a professional sailboat. I saw myself sitting there on board, sliding loosely through the water, in front of a beautiful landscape with champagne and strawberries. But then I found myself in a storm again? packed in yellow oilskin. Only the head looked out. I was tied to the rail with a snap hook, and all I knew was a constant pacing, water everywhere, and sirens and panic commands. I was scared to death for eight hours. And in the evening we had to scrub the boat.

Ildikó: Did not you get seasick?

Barbara: Luckily not. Are you getting seasick fast?

Ildikó: I suspect yes. Since I am already feeling sick when I am sitting on a swing, I assume that I would turn green shortly after taking off.

Barbara: At that time, I simply forbade seasickness. And it worked! Ildikó? we both survived a storm on board! Not only that connects us. Thank you for this conversation.

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