Monika Szabó: Zvažovala som interrupciu. Boli to najťažšie týždne môjho života | ČASŤ ROZHOVORU

Recap

Actress Monika Szabó joins host Adela for a candid conversation about honesty, boundaries, therapy, motherhood, and a difficult decision she faced as a young woman.

• Honesty—and when it becomes uncomfortable: Monika says her manager calls being “too honest” her biggest mistake. She sees honesty as a way to express boundaries, not attack people, though she and Adela joke about how adults teach children not to lie while also learning to be diplomatic themselves. Monika also describes speaking publicly about a severe physical reaction to underarm Botox. She avoided naming or blaming doctors, but says some were unhappy that she shared her experience.
• Learning to set boundaries: The two discuss the difference between being demanding and simply expecting professional standards. Monika admits she sometimes doubts her own value, including when negotiating fees, and says she can hold herself—and others—to exacting standards.
• Therapy and overthinking: Monika started therapy after her Botox experience, which left her hospitalized for six days while doctors initially thought her symptoms were psychosomatic. She says she is grateful the experience led her to therapy, though she is learning not to turn every situation into endless “what ifs.” Her husband encourages her to pause before acting on what she thinks might be intuition.
• Acting and career: Monika dreams of doing more film work, but jokes that her appearance in General Golian was reduced to about three seconds after editing. She also wonders whether appearing in daily television series can make some film productions less likely to cast her. Adela reassures her that even acclaimed actors can end up mostly on the cutting-room floor.
• Motherhood and her own upbringing: Monika’s mother had her at 16, and her parents are still together. Monika recalls being an unusually obedient child, but suspects that may have come partly from fear of disappointing her strict parents. She says she is not angry with them and tries to take what she learned into raising her own children—with the understanding that she does not have to repeat every part of their approach.
• The decision she still remembers: At 20, after learning she was six weeks pregnant and expecting to be alone, Monika seriously considered an abortion. She describes those as the hardest two weeks of her life. She confided in colleague Táňa Pauhofová, whose joyful reaction and encouragement helped her decide to continue the pregnancy. Monika stresses that this is her personal experience, not a judgment about what other women should do.
• Self-worth and the present: Monika says valuing herself is still difficult, and that she sometimes feels unsure even about her acting ability. The conversation turns to how appearance and positive attention can affect self-esteem. Just as Monika begins recalling the moment she was breastfeeding when her husband told her Russia had attacked Ukraine, the video breaks for a notice that the rest of the interview is available through the channel’s paid subscription options.

Personalities

• Adela — host
• Monika Szabó — actress and guest
• Táňa Pauhofová — Monika’s colleague, whose advice influenced her decision during her pregnancy
• Dominik — Monika’s husband, mentioned in the discussion
• Monika’s mother — discussed in relation to her upbringing and motherhood