I like her like that!
JBALVIN is all over the radio with Cardi B and Bad Bunny and their No. 1 single “I Like It,” which Billboard just called “the front-runner for the song of the summer.” Last fall, Beyoncé helped the Colombian crooner — already a superstar in Mexico and South America — break through in the US with a remix of his “Mi Gente.”
But Balvin only has eyes for one woman: Valentina Ferrer.
A friend of the 33-year-old singer told The Post that Balvin is “crazy in love” with the model and beauty queen.
Ferrer — aka Miss Argentina 2014 — is a little more coy about her high-flying love life, telling The Post simply: “I’m happy.” She added that she and her “boyfriend” were just in Turks and Caicos for a romantic getaway.
In February, she and Balvin were snapped in the front row of the Ovadia & Sons show during New York’s Men’s Fashion Week. Ferrer, 24, recently signed with the Wilhelmina modeling agency and splits her time between Manhattan and Miami.
“I love life in the big city,” Ferrer, who keeps a place in the Financial District, told The Post. “I love the energy.”
Having been photographed for Harper’s Bazaar Mexico as well as a Moschino campaign, she’s come a long way from her humble beginnings in Córdoba, Argentina.
“My family is very simple,” said Ferrer, who is one of four children of a teacher mother and fruit-vendor father. “They just want me to be happy.”
While studying physical education at the University of Córdoba, she supported herself with a series of odd jobs, including working as a maid and a house painter, and selling glutenfree cakes she would bake with her sister.
All the while, Ferrer knew her life’s purpose was more than just cleaning and baking for other people.
“Growing up, I always used to dream of being a dancer or a model,” she said.
So in 2011 Ferrer decided to go for it and moved to Buenos Aires to pursue modeling. It was meant to be: After a pageant scout discovered her at a mall, she nabbed the Miss Argentina crown three years later, even though she’d
never been in a beauty contest before.
At the Miss Universe pageant, she made it to the finals and thinks she knows why she didn’t win. “Sometimes I was overthinking things when preparing for the pageant,” she said. “But I learned that you have to enjoy the moment.”
But Ferrer doesn’t see modeling as her forever job. Eventually, she’d like to run her own entertainment business and devote herself to motherhood. “I want to have a big family — three or four kids,” she said. “I’m a simple girl.”
When Ferrer isn’t working or traveling with her boyfriend, she loves to play basketball or run along the East River. Should she start overthinking things again, she’s figured out a way to calm her mind. And it just may involve Balvin’s songs.
“Walking from the Brooklyn Bridge to back home and listening to music,” she said. “That’s my meditation.”