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Corinna, the wife who waits for Michael Schumache
MEDICAL science at its most advanced is keeping Formula One legend Michael Schumacher alive.
Formula One driver Michael Schumacher and his wife Corinna [PA]
Monitors flicker, drips empty into his immobile body and machines beep data only understood by the neurosurgeons battling to save him.
But what the high-tech gizmos cannot detect is the love that pulses out from the woman next to him.
The doctors now tasked with trying to save the life of the former world motor racing champion know that Corinna Schumacher’s brand of invisible medicine may turn out to be the most important remedy yet.
Corinna, 44, is truly the woman behind the successful man, the pit-stop wife. She was there for him throughout the 307 times he took to the Formula One circuits of the world. She is there for him now.
She has given few interviews since she wed Michael in 1995, devoting herself to him and their children Gina Marie, 16, and Mick, 14. She knew her image among media types was that of a provincial office clerk – blonde, perhaps a bit of an airhead, naive. It never bothered her.
Newspapers speculated at the time of their union that this was a marriage destined to have all the sparkle of a day-old glass of champagne: a confection dreamed up by Schumacher’s then publicity-hungry manager Willi Weber to maximise his global profile.
But when they met at a Ferrari party – she had broken up with another German racing driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen by then – the saleslady and the racer were spellbound.
“Rarely do you see a couple made for each other as the Schumachers seemed to be,” reported Stern magazine in Germany a year after their marriage. At the heart of the union was the instant knowledge that she could never tame him.
So the pact was this: Michael pledged love, honour, a family and riches if she would grant him the freedom to pursue his career no matter how high the stakes. She signed on the dotted line and stayed in the background.
The wife who waits for Michael Schumacher | World | News | Daily Express
MEDICAL science at its most advanced is keeping Formula One legend Michael Schumacher alive.
Monitors flicker, drips empty into his immobile body and machines beep data only understood by the neurosurgeons battling to save him.
But what the high-tech gizmos cannot detect is the love that pulses out from the woman next to him.
The doctors now tasked with trying to save the life of the former world motor racing champion know that Corinna Schumacher’s brand of invisible medicine may turn out to be the most important remedy yet.
Corinna, 44, is truly the woman behind the successful man, the pit-stop wife. She was there for him throughout the 307 times he took to the Formula One circuits of the world. She is there for him now.
She has given few interviews since she wed Michael in 1995, devoting herself to him and their children Gina Marie, 16, and Mick, 14. She knew her image among media types was that of a provincial office clerk – blonde, perhaps a bit of an airhead, naive. It never bothered her.
Newspapers speculated at the time of their union that this was a marriage destined to have all the sparkle of a day-old glass of champagne: a confection dreamed up by Schumacher’s then publicity-hungry manager Willi Weber to maximise his global profile.
But when they met at a Ferrari party – she had broken up with another German racing driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen by then – the saleslady and the racer were spellbound.
“Rarely do you see a couple made for each other as the Schumachers seemed to be,” reported Stern magazine in Germany a year after their marriage. At the heart of the union was the instant knowledge that she could never tame him.
So the pact was this: Michael pledged love, honour, a family and riches if she would grant him the freedom to pursue his career no matter how high the stakes. She signed on the dotted line and stayed in the background.
The wife who waits for Michael Schumacher | World | News | Daily Express
