Overview

• Writing for Chi’s 30th anniversary issue, Rodriguez reflects on her career and describes gossip as both enabling and wounding.
• She admits her most recent relationships were driven by a fear of being alone and by the urge to fill emotional voids.
• She recounts skipping many dinners and outings to avoid being misunderstood or pushed into situations she did not want to relive.
• She says she has found lightness again, feels happy, and now wants to meet and date people openly without previous pressures or expectations.
• She acknowledges that dating Marco Borriello accelerated her visibility, credits support from Simona Ventura, and adds she believes she would have worked in modeling and TV regardless.