Nerea Garmendia began to wonder when she realised she could not remember when her last period had come. In a video published on 9 November 2026, the San Sebastián actress said she did not know whether she might be pregnant or entering perimenopause. The video was recorded shortly before her 47th birthday, when she was 46.
She bought a pregnancy test at a pharmacy and filmed herself taking it. Because the sample was not her first urine of the day, she waited four hours before taking the test. Diario Vasco reported that she followed the kit’s instructions, waited three seconds and got a negative result. Garmendia joked that she had imagined another baby might be on the way, but what was coming instead was the Imserso, Spain’s social services programme for older people.
Garmendia said she had not yet had her period and planned to see a gynaecologist. If she were pregnant, she had considered retrieving a cot she had sold through Wallapop; otherwise, she was preparing for hot flushes associated with perimenopause. She also clarified that she had delayed posting the recorded video because of a railway tragedy.
The video revisited her difficult route to motherhood. Garmendia and Luis Díaz Núñez welcomed their first child together, Unax, in April 2025. She had frozen her eggs at 36, nine years before his birth, and began assisted-reproduction treatment about two years before he was born. The process involved several unsuccessful attempts and a medically imposed pause. She learned she was pregnant during a holiday in Asturias.
Garmendia said she was amused by the reactions to the video and joked that she had washed the cup used for the test five times. A separate public figure’s personal health story is covered in Julia Otero’s cancer treatment.
