“Then I started ticking things off, there was room for my own pure emotions,” Chery-Ann reveals.
From elevator to swimming pool. From gym to museum loads of art. The capital home of Real Housewife of Amsterdam and real estate entrepreneur Cherry-Ann Person (36) and her business tycoon husband Roland Kahn (71) is fully equipped. The couple shows their beautiful home to Glamial and meanwhile tells us all about their love, family, taste in interior design, and views on money.
The kitchen, in which Cherry-Ann is busy with fruit and yogurt while Roland makes coffee for the visitors, belongs to a beautiful mansion, detached, three floors (with elevator), beautifully situated on the water. Cherry-Ann: “Roland has been living here for about six years now. I moved in with him four and a half years ago. It was eighty percent my taste, so I didn’t have to do much. That twenty percent was about having fun. The house had a bachelor feel, it could have been a bit more homely.”
At the bar of Izakaya
Cherry-Ann and Roland met five years ago in the Amsterdam top restaurant Izakaya. “I was sitting at the bar and he came up to me and asked my date of birth. I thought that was strange – did he want to check if I was eighteen plus? – but I did answer. He told me that he is an amateur astrologer and could tell me all kinds of things about myself based on my date of birth. For example tomorrow at a dinner party?”
Unfortunately, that dinner cannot take place due to a business trip to Tokyo, but Chery-Ann shares that they spent a lot of time texting each other in the days that followed – and that Roland has indeed figured out her entire horoscope. “He texted that I am a beautiful person and that he would like to delve deeper into my personality after Tokyo. He bewitched me in a very clever way.”
Age difference
Roland also reveals that it was love at first sight for him: “I entered Izakaya and suddenly I saw her. Boom. Right in my heart.”
Chery-Ann, however, wasn’t so sure. She shares: “When I met him, I immediately said that the age difference is too big. ‘You know what,’ he said, we’re going to have a good time and if you experience an age difference, we won’t continue as lovers, but as friends.’”
“When we walk into a restaurant together, I feel the stares. And they are not positive; gold digger,” she adds. Ultimately, it is the lockdown that brings them closer together, as they quarantine together. “We didn’t go out to eat. I didn’t get any judgmental looks. Then I started ticking things off, there was room for my own pure emotions. How do I feel about this man? I soon realized that we belong together. Some people separated due to the lockdown, but we came together.”
This article is an excerpt of an extensive interview with Chery-Ann and Roland from the latest Glamial. Here you will also find interviews with Patty Brard, Ewout Genemans, Anouk Smulders, Jasmine Sendar, Trijntje Oosterhuis, and Dries Roelvink. We also share the most beautiful fashion trends for spring, and we peek at the comeback of Princess Charlene in Monaco. In stores from Wednesday March 6!
Interview: Sandra ten Brink | Photos: Dario & Misja | Styling: Pascalle Swinkels and Channah Glusica | Make-up: Mifa Man
