Ana Paula Dutil spoke again about one of the most important periods of her life, and this time she focused on a decision related to her older children, Teo and Noé Ranuschio, which still causes her pain today. In an intimate chat with Pamela David on En Subida, the former model acknowledged that when she began her relationship with Emanuel Ortega, she prioritized the couple’s bond over her children, and only with the years could she take a true measure of what had happened.
“The greatest pain of my life, which I still haven’t resolved, is that I chased after a man and put my children second,” Dutil confessed during the interview.
At that time, Ana Paula was already a mother to Teo and Noé, offspring of her first marriage to model Fernando Ranuschio. The boys were 6 and 5 years old when she decided to start a new life in Miami alongside Emanuel Ortega. According to her account, her initial intention was to travel with them and she had spoken with the children’s father to organize the move.
“I was going to move to Miami and I spoke with the dad, who gave me the okay to take the kids with me. They were 6 and 5 years old; I went first to handle the move and when I came back to fetch them, he regretted it,” she said.
From that shift in decision, Teo and Noé remained in Argentina while Dutil stayed in the United States with Emanuel. There, she also formed a new family: with Ortega she had Bautista and India. The situation, which at the time was a choice made amidst a profound life change, over the years acquired a different dimension for her.
The guilt Ana Paula Dutil Still Feels
Dutil shared that she was able to talk about that episode with her children and that their perspective differs from the one she holds about what happened.
“Today they tell me that it’s over for them, that they’ve accepted it; for me it left a great deal of guilt,” she acknowledged. And she was even more emphatic when reevaluating that decision from the present: “It’s raw but it’s real: I prioritized a man above them.”
The confession now appears as a new look at a phase of her life that for years was marked by various painful situations. Dutil had already publicly shared that her separation from Emanuel Ortega was a turning point and that she later endured a deep depression. In this instance, however, she chose to go back even further in time to identify earlier moments that had also left a mark.
Among those memories she also mentioned a family conflict that occurred after her first marriage. According to her account, her father stopped talking to her for about a year when she separated from her first husband.
“There was also something else, prior to this, that caused me pain and has to do with my dad. He stopped talking to me for about a year, more or less, when I separated from my first husband,” she recalled.
Today, while rebuilding her personal history from another perspective, Ana Paula Dutil can look back at that decision and recognize what it meant for her. Although Teo and Noé assure her that they were able to leave what happened behind, Dutil herself admits that she still works on the guilt that lingered from that moment.
Her account not only aims to recount a past love story with Emanuel Ortega but also to articulate how certain decisions taken at particular moments in life can acquire another meaning as the years go by. In her case, that reevaluation has a name of its own: Teo and Noé, the two sons who, as she acknowledged, have never ceased to occupy a central place in that pain.
