As she sits down with her perfectly styled makeup, red nails, elegant diamond jewellery and Balmain-jacket, it is difficult to imagine Katerina Pitzner on a sailing ship in 21 days without a full night’s sleep and a decent bath.
But she can easily cope with, and she enjoys to urge others prejudices to the ground.
Spice it with a good dose of adventurous spirit, then you have the answer as to why the 50-year-old diamanthandler said yes to participate in the television program ‘Across the Atlantic’, in which six well-known danes travelling 6,000 km across the Atlantic ocean on a sailing ship.
“I said: ‘Hell yeah, I would like to!’. It sounded like an amazing experience, and I love the adventure, so to get the opportunity to sail across the Atlantic is just a wonderful challenge.”
“I love being torn out of my life. Many might not think that my life is predictable, and it is probably not necessary, for no two weeks are alike.”
“But I like the variability and to get out in deep water – both literally and figuratively,” she explains.
To make the tv is not new for Katerina Pitzner, who along with his four children showing everyday life back on the good and evil in TV 2-series ‘Diamantfamilien’.
And she knows very well that many people have prejudices about her. It is ‘the never ending story’, she says.
“I have accustomed myself to it, for it has always been. Also before I began to fix the tv. It bounces off, but when I was younger, it surprised me. How could people spin stories about me, which had no root in anything?”
“that is Why I am also so happy to make ‘Diamantfamilien’, for which we get the opportunity to show several shades. It has been very liberating and nice to show people that they’re wrong,” she stresses.
Katerina Pitzner think, well, it may come as a surprise to some that she is doing the trip across the Atlantic, for she has been asked by several whether or not it was difficult to do without the usual luxuries on board the boat.
To them she has one thing to say:
“Now we just need to remember that I am bondefødt and raised on a farm with straw in the wooden shoes. My father was a farmer and a businessman,” she says and continues:
“It was fun with the pitch, for the you could just throw on the quay, before you jumped on board. When I see some clips now, I think: ‘Not, where do you see the lord’s out’, but it is just so. I can’t help but to laugh. There were also days, where I just had pyjamas on for three days, and it was great to get rid of all the worries about how you look,” she says.
A significant reason to throw themselves into the adventure of the Atlantic, also, that life does not only consist of work, explains diamantdronningen.
She would like to be able to look back on his life and know that she not only worked hard around the clock.
“I’m very adventurous and curious, but I would like to have a balance in life also. I am working very hard with my business, but I also need to do everything else. “
“When I kick the bucket and look back at how I have managed my life, so I would be sad only to be able to say that I had worked the ass out of the pants. I am proud of my business, but I also reached to be a good mother, to experience things and dare to take chances,” she explains.
On the question of whether she would take off again, hesitating she.
“No, I would damn well enough not to do. It is a hell of a boat – it is it just. But a part of me want to say yes, for then there are some things I would do differently. I for instance would take much more cola with,” laughing, she adds:
“But I would also handle the social different, because we were very small units, who just tried to deal with themselves. It had been cooler, if we could talk a lot more together on things.”
“We went into some archetypal roles from the primary school nearest to you. There is, of course, the professional sailors, which is the headmaster and the class teacher, but then there are us children: dengsen, rebels, the naughty, duksen, enspænderen and diplomat.”
Who Katerina Pitzner even is, you have to see in the program, she says with a laugh.
‘Across the Atlantic’ will appear Sunday evening on Channel 5 at 21: 00 and can also be viewed on Dplay.
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