Overview
- Mantilla shared a video compiling images from daughter Luna María’s 2016 baptism and her 2025 first communion, captioned “Nine years later” and noting she feels her mother accompanies the child from heaven.
- The post, made on her social media accounts, drew widespread congratulations and messages of support from followers.
- Luna María is the younger of Mantilla’s two children with businessman Gustavo Salcedo, from whom she separated in August 2025.
- Mantilla’s mother, Elvia García, died on October 27 at age 75 after a long battle with cancer, a loss the former TV host has mourned publicly.
- Separately, entertainment reporters cite unconfirmed claims by journalist Christian Byro that Mantilla could return to América TV in 2026, potentially alongside Israel Dreyfus.