Revealed to the public in 1987 with the release of her hit, Joe the cab, Vanessa Paradis has since established herself as one of the essential artists in the French audiovisual landscape. If her talent as an actress and her unique voice opened the doors to cinema and singing, her atypical beauty also gave her great years in modeling.
At 51, Vanessa Paradis can also boast of having retained an ultra slender figure, she who displays toned arms, tapered legs and a stomach that could not be more flat. His secret? Like ordinary mortals, the actress must submit to regular physical activity to stay in shape. Cycling, swimming, running… What sport does Vanessa Paradis choose? “The floor bar… Since I was 5 years old”, she explains in the pages of Vogue. Then added: “I sometimes practice 1 hour 5 times a week, sometimes not at all for 2 months, depending on tours, filming… and how lazy I am”.
As a reminder, the floor barre is a discipline practiced – without a barre, contrary to what its name indicates – by classical dancers to soften, tone and shape their body. “At the beginning, it’s complicated to think about everything at the same time: tucking in your stomach, stretching your tiptoes, extending your arms, lifting your leg very high… And then, by persevering, you feel incredible well-being thanks precisely to this rigor and this surpassing oneself. I like the slender muscles, the flexibility and the grace that this discipline brings.”, admits Vanessa Paradis. At the same time, the actress also practices yoga.
Vanessa Paradis: her tip for smoothing facial skin
Alongside a toned silhouette, Vanessa Paradis makes sure to look good. And to wake up a slightly wrinkled face early in the morning, the actress has a ready-made tip! “Ice cubes on the faceit’s radical for smoothing the skin and looking good”, she says before specifying: “It seems that Paul Newman plunged his into a basin of ice cubes. It worked pretty well for him, but it’s frankly too cold for me…”. To have beautiful skin every day, Vanessa Paradis assures us, however, there is a holy trinity: “sleep, water, pleasure…”. To the wise…
