As it is in 2013 came forward, to Ibi Makienok had been the girlfriend of the Danish footballer Simon Makienok, it was far from all that was happy on her behalf.
Rather the contrary.
According to the 44-year-old tv host, who right now is current as host in ‘Date me naked’ on TV2 Zulu, in, she was met with hatred and outright harassment, when it emerged in public that she dated Simon Makienok, who is 15 years younger than herself. Both from fans, followers and parts of the press.
she talks about in the talk show ‘Sara Bridge on DR2’, this Sunday evening is all about ‘cougars and kuvøseguf’.
– It was pretty serious when I met him. The experience I had with the world around me. Because it was not super-acceptable. It was not something internal from the inside. My family supported. His family supported. There was nothing there. But out and about – it people could not, and neither do the press, says Ibi Makienok in the talk show that has Sara Bro as the host.
According to the Ibi Makienok she was among the other messages from people she did not know, who would comment on and interfere in her relationship with the footballer. For her it developed into a smear campaign.
– I saw it as a smear campaign. And now it may well be that people think I sit and cry whole game, and that it must be a sin for me. I just want to say that it is really, really violently, when you feel that you are sitting up at the town square, in a frame, because you have found love with someone who is younger, she says in the programme, and continues:
– I have not taken drugs. I have not broken the law in any way. I pay my taxes. I have not driven too strongly without the harness on. I’m not my son. All the crusades came of that my girlfriend was younger. It was so gakket. I amazes me still to this day over what it was that was so terrible at it. Because I am aldersblind. I don’t see ages, colors, seksualiteter, so for me it was a big shock that people had so much to say about it, she says further.
Ibi Makienok together with her husband, Simon Makienok. Photo: Jonas Olufson
According to the Ibi Makienok went chose against her and her relationship to last so far that she could not be in peace, when she went shopping in the Net.
– I got 200 of the texting, which was about age, and I got 2000 messages, I could not find one on my own age. The press also ran on it and other celebrities, who also had an opinion about my relationship. It was incredibly violent, to something as mundane as finding a girlfriend – we do it all – that it could create so much fuss and so much hatred. For it was hatred, there was running it there. I don’t know what it is that sticks to us, when it happens, but at least it is something that I do not follow the regulations, reads it from Makienok.
the Tv host says that the experiences have set deep marks with her, and today she still struggles with the psychological aftermath in the wake of the incidents.
– I have felt badly treated. It has I really. So far badly treated, that I struggle with anxiety, and all sorts of piss and shit, because I have been afraid of people. I have never been before. The price for the relationship with Simon has been high for me mentally, ” she says honestly, and stresses that she stands up to help others who are experiencing something similar.
Ibi Makienok has formed pairs with Simon Makienok ago 2013. In 2014, they were married in Holmens Church in Copenhagen. The couple have no children together, but Ibi Makienok has a son Anakin from a previous relationship.
Ekstra Bladet has tried to get a detailed comment from the Ibi Makienok, but she has not returned our inquiries.
