- Lorena Bernal is an actress, model, and the wife of former Everton and Arsenal player and current coach of Arsenal, Mikel Arteta
- Bernal and Arteta got married in 2010 and share 3 kids; Gabriel, Daniel, and Oliver born in 2009, 2010, and 2015, respectively
- The Argentine-Spanish actress and her husband are fluent in at least three languages and have a net worth of $6 million and $71 million, sequentially
44 year-old Lorena Bernal is Mikel Arteta’s wife and a proud mother of 3. She is also an Argentine-Spanish actress, television host, and model who started hitting the runway at the tender age of 7. Her consistency and hard work in the industry made her clinch Miss Spain a decade after she made her modeling debut.
Lorena has significantly amassed a decent income through her promising career over the years. Moreso, her affiliation with Mikel, a Spanish football boss, and a former player has hoisted her personality although the couple’s popularity could be argued to be cheek by jowl.
Within the duration of her entertainment career, Lorena has been able to feature in dozens of movies, television series, and commercials such as The Deal (Movie-2005), Chuck (T.V series-2007), and Eguzki Lore (Commercial-2011).
Early life background of Lorena Bernal
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Mikel Arteta’s Wife was born on the 12th day of May 1981 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. When she clocked 1, the actress moved to San Sebastian where she had a better part of her education.
Lorena studied at the French Lycée Français de Saint Sebastién, Argentina and then later moved to Maurice Ravel school in Saint Jean de Luz across the border in France.
What Lorena actually studied in school is not yet confirmed but it is a fact that she started modeling at age 7.
She has also been very much active on the screens as a host and actress both within and outside Spain. Bernal got to the corridors of the movies after her enrolment in drama classes at the age of 13. Mikel Arteta’s Wife evolved from the mid-90s and began to feature in a lot of films, T.v series, and commercials.
She had an early career startup
Bernal started putting her gifts and talents to work quite early in life. Before she clocked 10, she was already parading in the best catwalks as a professional model. This exposed her to a lot of opportunities such as being named Miss Spain in 1999 at the age of 17.
Just when the model thought she could hit the international runway in the Miss Universe contest as a representative for Spain, she was unfortunately disqualified because of her age.
The contest rule is that anyone contesting for Miss Universe is expected to be at least 18 years old. Contestants are also forbidden to fabricate their age or to be pregnant during the competition.
Even though she was disqualified because of her age, she was able to later compete in the Miss World and emerged as one of the top 10 finalists.
Lorena has been married to Mikel for over a decade
In 2010, after dating for about 8 years Arteta and his wife tied the knot at a private wedding party that was attended by family and friends in Mallorca Spain. Mikel’s wife revealed that though she and her husband grew up in the same place, they never knew each other until she first met him in San Sebastian during a Christmas holiday in 2002.
Not only are Lorena and Mikel married, but the duo is also blessed with children. According to Lorena, her husband has remained a wonderful father despite the challenging task of being a club manager. The Arsenal boss is said to spend his leisure and holiday periods with his kids and assists them with school work.
Bernal shares 3 boys with Mikel Arteta
The celebrity couple’s family has witnessed significant expansion. Their firstborn Gabriel Mikel Arteta (16) was born on the 8th of June 2009, a year before Lorena and her husband officially tied the knot. Later came Daniel Mikel Arteta (15) on the 20th of June 2010, and lastly, Oliver Mikel Arteta (10) was born in 2015. Bernal and her family live happily in a luxury home in London.
Her husband is a popular football manager
Lorena Bernal’s husband Mikel Arteta Amatriain is a Spanish professional football manager and former player too. He is currently the manager of Premier League club Arsenal and had previously played for clubs like Rangers (2002-2004), Everton (2005-2011), and Arsenal (2011-2016).
Mikel was born on the 26 March 1982 in San Sebastián, Spain, and began his football career at Antiguoko, an amateur youth Spanish football club based in Antiguo.
He has previously managed Manchester city as an assistant coach between 2016-2019. His current managerial deal with Arsenal was signed in 2019 and is expected to last till 2023. He won his first match with the club in a 2-0 win over Manchester United in the Emirates stadium on the 1st of January 2020.
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What is her net worth?
From her successful career as a model and on-air personality, Lorena is said to be worth around £5 million ($6 million). Though this figure is not confirmed yet, her husband is worth $71 million all of which he gathered from his football career over the years.
Some quick facts about Lorena Bernal that will interest you
- She and her husband are both multilingual. While she is fluent in Spanish, English, and French. Her husband comfortably speaks Spanish, Basque, Catalan, and English. Mikel also speaks a bit of French, Italian, and Portuguese.
- She didn’t like football before meeting her husband. The actress has revealed that even though she comes from a region where there is much enthusiasm for football, the game was not just her thing until she met her husband.
- She is one year older than her husband. While Lorena was born on the 12th of May 1981, her husband came a year later, on the 26th of March 1982.
- Berna stands at 173cm (5 feet 8 inches). She has a perfect slender body and befitting height suitable for a model that she is.
- Lorena speaks only Spanish to her kids at home. She believes it is necessary to preserve her children’s originality and roots. However, the kids get to speak English in school and when they mingle with their friends.
- She is a lover of pets, especially dogs. The actress also loves to ease herself on the beach when she is less busy.
- Her husband survived a rare heart condition that only a few medical experts could attempt unraveling while he was young.
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