Mothers, but not maternal.
Maternal regret, theme of the book “Mal de Mères” by Stéphanie Thomas, which comes out this week at JC Lattès (180 p., 19 euros), has been sketched in the past by some celebrities who have evoked a relationship with motherhood far away from the expected fairy tale.
Starting with actress Jeanne Moreau, who had only one son, Jérôme, with her first husband, director Jean-Louis Richard.
In this regard, she affirmed in 2012 at the Figaro Madame
: “I had a child. I didn't want it. I know I shock a lot of women. But I am not a mother. There is an age when we are in seduction, when we are seduced. It's an exchange. In a woman, it is blameworthy; in a man, it's normal, ”quipped the actress, who died in July 2017.
She also admitted that this thwarted relationship with motherhood made her son suffer.
A boy she gave birth to the day after her marriage, on September 28, 1949, as Jean-Claude Moireau recounts in his book “Jeanne Moreau, the rebellious” (Flammarion, 2011).
It is at the end of the shooting of "Last love" that the actress realizes that she is pregnant with Jean-Louis Richard.
“It was angst and uncertainty.
Her father kicked her out.
Jeanne had to settle in the hotel and then, under family pressure, the marriage was celebrated on September 27, 1949 ”, describes the author.
"I couldn't dream of a better mom"
Anemone, the unforgettable Therese, operator of “Father Christmas is a junk”, had also caused a scandal in 2011 at Laurent Ruquier, stressing having
“
regretted all her life
”
to have had her two children.
She explained during the show that they had "ruined" her existence and "prevented her from living".
But she also added that she had "not had to desire them in order to love them".
The former member of the Splendid troupe had also explained to the director Laurent Brémond that she only became a mother to "escape the shame", a remark appearing in his
book "I prefer geniuses to morons
"
(Robert Laffont, 2021, 240 p
.,
19.50 euros), where he collected the secrets of the actress Caesarized.
After his death in 2019, his son, Jacob Bourguignon does not anathematize him, quite the contrary.
“My mother was very present and I have memories of travels, of our trip around the world when I was 8 years old, of dinners and end-of-shoot drinks, of the Cannes Film Festival…
(…)
I could not dream better mother ”, he confided to us on May 31, 2021.
“My mother was very present and I have memories of travels, of our trip around the world when I was 8 years old, of dinners and end of shoots, of the Cannes Film Festival…”, says Jacob, the son of 'Anemone.
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On several occasions, the planetary star Brigitte Bardot has had the opportunity to say how she did not feel made to be a mother. In her autobiography, “Initials BB” published in 1996 by Grasset, she describes the “nine months of nightmare
”
represented by her pregnancy, before the birth of her only son in 1960. “The nightmare reached its climax, it was necessary to that I assume for life the object of my misfortune
”
, she wrote then.
Brigitte Bardot does not want to be a mother.
The pill does not exist.
At 24, she has already had two abortions.
Clandestinely, since the law prohibits it.
But this time, she can't find anyone to help her.
Nicolas comes into the world.
To this list, we could also add the journalist Françoise Giroud who said, about her son: “From the day he was born, I walked with a stone around my neck.
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