Mexican singer and actress Thalía appeared on NBC's "Today" show to talk about her new children's book "Chupie, The Binky That Returned Home," released on Octobre 31 by publishing house Penguin, Latina reported.
That star, that besides writing the story also created some of the illustrations of the book, sat down with host Matt Lauer to open up about how her daughter Sabrina inspired her to write "Chupie." "I didn't want to see her cry. It was drama... so I started adding two pacifiers in the crib because when she would fall asleep the pacifier would fall out and she would cry. So every 40 minutes you have to go to the crib and put the pacifier back in their mouth. I ended up with 20 pacifiers in the crib and it was crazy," said Thalía.
In order to help her daughter forget about the pacifier, the 42-year-old singer came up with the perfect idea."It was like divine intervention and it was the desperate call of a mother at 3 am... The baby was crying, I couldn't find the paci (pacifier) and I took the paci and I was like, 'Do you know why paci's sad? Paci's falling off your lips because paci misses her mommy. Pacifier wants to go home to binky (pacifier) land and she was like, 'Binky land?' and I said, 'Yes, she lives in a castle made of caramel and also mommy misses the binky... Imagine me and you apart, Sabrina, you and me apart would be terrible.'"
The singer said her baby girl realized she wanted the "binky" to be with its mom. "You know what I think?" added Thalía. "It's like the first experience of letting go. As a human being it's very difficult to let go, so for a baby it's terrible..."
Thalía is not the only singer that is publishing under Penguin. Puerto Rican star Ricky Martin has also released his first children's book, titled "Santiago the Dreamer in Land Among the Stars," which follows the story of a boy that decides to follow his dreams, supported unconditionally by his father who believes in the unlimited potential of his son and will do anything in his power to help him succeed.
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