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“I was born to win in life, I am not happy with little.” That was the phrase said by the sister shortly before entering reality. Throughout the show, “Big Brother Brasil 20” champion Thelma shared her life story with the brothers. And there was a lot of trouble for the doctor to get to where he was! Thelma took a course for three years before being approved on a full medical scholarship at a private university. “I was always the only black woman in my groups,” she said. As an adult, the doctor discovered that she was adopted at three days of age through an anonymous call. The story of the overcoming made the sister never fear her challenges, and at the beginning of the program, she did not hide that it was to play: “My true friend, inside, is R $ 1.5 million. I am calculating, I capture, I have a perceptual radar to reach my goal. It’s a chess game, “he said.
Born and raised in the Limão neighborhood, on the outskirts of São Paulo, she was rejected by her biological mother and adopted three days later by retired civil servant Yara Assis, now 70, and the graphic Carlos Alberto de Assis, who had lost a baby. “She came to me very frail and rickety. So much so that if she had a nursery for adoption, no one would want her,” recalls the mother, claiming that the family has never had contact with or known her sister’s birth mother.
Adoption was first discussed when Thelma was 7 years old. “She was suspicious because she didn’t have a pregnant photo. And I explained that she was born from the most important part of me, my heart,” she recalls, emotionally.
Years later, confirmation of the adoption came through an anonymous phone call, at a time of fragility for the family, when Dona Yara was treating diabetes. “My daughter grew even stronger and told me that I will always be her mother, that she loves me and will never want to know where she came from.”
Photo: Playback | Instagram The dream of becoming a doctor arose as a child, when Thelma was treating bronchitis. “She told the doctor that she wanted to be like her when she grew up,” recalls Doña Yara, who at the time gave her daughter a doctor’s bag. Despite the difficulties and humble origins, Thelma’s parents always fought so that their only daughter had nothing. He studied in a private school until the end of high school (the rest concludes in a public school), did ballet and obtained a 50% scholarship in a pre-university course.
Thelma studied day and night for three years and helped her parents pay for tuition by giving ballet classes and distributing brochures. “There was a month when they paid for the light or the cram. The power went out,” says her husband, photographer Denis Cord.
Photo: Playback | Instagram The effort and desire to change things paid off. After the third attempt, he managed to pass the entrance exam with a 100% scholarship and began receiving R $ 300 in government aid. At the university, the difficulties were different: she could not buy the course books (only photocopies), nor the instruments for the classes, and she had lunch at a popular restaurant for R $ 1. But nothing discouraged her from obtaining her diploma.
At graduation, tears and thanks to the parents, to whom Thelma began to return all the love and dedication. “I had a dream, since I was little, to go to Paris. I kept seeing him in the cinema … He said that when he graduated, he would take me. And two years ago, we went together,” says the mother.
Sister’s father died of cancer
In August, in the process of joining the “BBB”, Thelma lost her father after a nine-year battle with lung cancer. With the death of Seu Carlos, Thelma took her mother to live in an apartment below her own, in the Pirituba neighborhood, in the northwestern area of São Paulo. It is the sister who pays for expenses, such as Dona Yara’s rent and health insurance, and still earmarks an allowance for her mother, with part of the salary she earned from the four hospitals where she worked before entering the program. Thelma lives with her husband and a pet dog on another property, also simple and rented.
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