Anna-Maria Zimmermann
“I would often have needed four arms and only have one”
Pop singer Anna-Maria Zimmermann is a mother of two.
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Anna-Maria Zimmermann has got used to life with two children. In the interview, she says in which activities she gets help.
Pop singer Anna-Maria Zimmermann (32) is happy that she can work again. “When I am allowed to work, my children have a totally happy and balanced mum,” says the artist in an interview with the magazine “Bunte”. “It was hard for me to be completely at home with two young children and a husband,” she continues. Although they lived “great with a house and garden in the country”, she still felt locked up – “locked up in paradise”.
Your everyday life with two small children
Anna-Maria Zimmermann and the chef Christian Tegeler (40) have been married since the beginning of 2015. Their first son Matti was born in December, and their second son Sepp in July 2020. “I had another caesarean section because the many pelvic fractures in my accident mean that natural birth is not recommended,” says Zimmermann. The fractures mentioned come from the helicopter crash in October 2010, in which she almost died.
Since then she has also had a paralyzed arm, which makes it difficult to deal with two small children. “The first half a year was not without it, Matti was only two years old and extremely affectionate. I would often have needed four arms and only have one,” remembers Zimmermann. She never bathed Sepp alone, because then her husband or mother would have had to help.
Loading everything into the car with one arm is no fun either. “But it’s getting better now, Matti is almost four and Sepp is already walking, I think that’s a great age. The two boys love each other more than anything,” she enthuses. She also doesn’t have to prove anything to anyone with the second child. “I stopped breastfeeding after three weeks, breastfeeding and pumping with one hand and looking after a toddler, that was too exhausting,” she admits.
Is flying still an option for you today?
Today Anna-Maria Zimmermann says about her accident: “Open the drawer, put memories in, close the drawer.” She also gets on every plane and hot air balloon. “Only when I hear a helicopter in the air somewhere does my pulse go that high … I don’t want to do such a flight to my body anymore,” she says.