“It’s heavy for a small child.”

Sonia Dubois, you have certainly seen her. It was this very round and funny young woman alongside Christine Bravo in the show Frou Frou. Then, the one who was the ex-partner of Gérard Vivès went on a diet taking her from 130kg to 60kg. But this considerable weight loss harmed him professionally. “It was terrible. I betrayed girls who loved me. I left this incredible gang which was the gang of fat people“, she confided in Hello Earthlings!, Thierry Ardisson’s show. She also suffered from endometriosis and thought she would never be able to have children and yet… She got pregnant at 46 years old. But this motherhood has not been easy!

Sonia Dubois passes for her son’s “grandma”

Sonia Dubois, media guest Ladies Media by Maïtena Biraben, recounted her motherhood at over 45 years old and we can say that it was not easy for her as for her son, Hippolyte, 15 years old. “It’s heavy for a little child to have an elderly mother, because inevitably (…) You go shopping and a girl or a guy says to him: ‘Well, it’s your grandmother, your grandmother is nice’“, she explained. The former columnist said that it was complicated for her son, because in the mind of a child, a grandmother risks dying soon. “It’s not at all reassuring for him“, she confirmed.

Sonia Dubois: her son helps her stay young… “I’m still in the game”

At 61, Sonia Dubois raises her 15-year-old son alone, but makes sure to always be “in the game” to compensate for the age difference. She took him to see the movie Bob Marley and then agreed to have dreadlocks. “I think 35-year-old mothers would have told him Hippolyte, you’re nice, get your baccalaureate and then pay for your dreadlocks.“, she blurted. The sixty-year-old admits that her son keeps her young: “I’m still in the game because obviously we catch all their language tics“. And she is also an expert on teens’ favorite brands. Being a mother of a teenager at 61 years, it gets younger!