Kike Hernandez with his wife Mariana and their daughter (Image via: Mariana Vicente’s IG) Los Angeles Dodgers star Kiké Hernández stepped away from baseball headlines to hit a personal milestone that held much more weight than the bat. On Instagram, Hernandez posted a photo of his wife, Mariana Vicente, to congratulate her birthday, which provided the fans with a rare and yet significant glimpse into their personal world. The photo depicted Vicente sitting at a table of a restaurant, with a glass of wine in her hands and gazed into the camera. No melodramatic posture, no showy background, a mere casual piece of warm-light. Within a social media environment where perfection is an art, the restraint of the post was a subtext of how the couple preferred to celebrate the day in a private and calculated way and not in a showy manner.
A quiet birthday exchange between Kiké Hernández and Mariana Vicente that showed genuine affection
(Image via: Mariana Vicente’s IG Story)
Hernandez had made his birthday message very short yet warm on the photo he captioned the photo with the words, “The Bday Queen.” The brief wording consisted of celebration and appreciation rather than performance. Hernandez, by keeping the caption minimal, gave the image and the moment to speak itself, which appealed to fans that appreciate the authenticity of these kinds of moments.The dialogue was even closer when Vicente replied on her personal Instagram Story. She re-posted the post of her husband and posted a caption of her own in which she wrote,”Te Amo.” The emotional note to the birthday was the two-word response, which has translated to I love you. The combination of the posts made them less announcements to the community and rather a kind of a conversation that was briefly opened to the followers. The background and the location of the photo indicated an informal birthday dinner and not a huge one.Vicente is a former Miss Universe Puerto Rico and actress who has been able to juggle between personal privacy and making known to the world. Such moments as birthday reveal how she and Hernández pick and choose what to provide fans with in terms of the information about their life, opting to be sincere as opposed to being extravagant. To Hernandez, an action-packed and an energetic player on the field, the post brought out a more down-to-earth side.With the MLB offseason in full swing, the birthday post was a reminder that behind the schedules, the statistics, and uniforms, there are also players who are partners and husbands, and that this step of life is real, personal and very human.