By Elsa Girard-Basset | Web journalist
Very present in the media lately, Adriana Karembeu is in the process of perfectly succeeding in her reconversion. Far from being reduced to her physique alone as was the case for too long, the fifty-year-old is also appreciated by the French because of her frankness and a speech that contrasts with the wooden language. She recently proved it by discussing a central but thorny subject: her body.
Books, television shows, podcasts and business projects of all kinds: Adriana Karembeu is in the process of having what we call a particularly successful post-career. Returning to the forefront with her autobiography “Libre”, the one who recently found love again does not avoid anything from her past, and contrasts with a certain ambient conformism.
Moreover, recently questioned in the InPower podcast about the behavior of Thierry Ardisson who, during a television appearance, had revealed his measurements, the former wife of Christian Karembeu was not at all offended:
It’s my job, I work with my body (…). It’s my instrument, it’s physical. (…) I have no merit over my body, but it is my instrument. Measure it if you like it, I don’t care.
Adriana Karembeu without taboo on her body and the passing of time
In this same show, the Slovak also spoke of her declining beauty with rare transparency, and a lot of frankness:
You can be beautiful at a certain age. Now it’s my motto, it’s good too. This is to say that I will never be prettier than at 30. At 30, you can get me naked, I have no embarrassment. Today, maybe it won’t be the same. It’s not the same rendering.
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If ever today someone says to me: “You can take the beauty of your 30 years,” I will take it, because it was a more perfect beauty than the one I have today. The beauty of youth is something priceless.
Honest words from the one who was considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, and recognizes that the transition was not easy to make. She also adds:
I lose my beauty, I lose my power. For a pretty woman, it’s painful. I received the information when I turned 40. This is where I started to get my first wrinkle. I said to myself: “What?!” Really, am I going to be old now? » This is information that I have absorbed and am adapting. (…) I said to myself: “Is it going to go away? Ok, but I have something else because now I’m mature, I know how to do lots of things.” With the self-confidence I have today, I’m enjoying it.
However, far from indulging in an ingénue or false modesty act, Adriana Karembeu easily recognizes that her physique was a phenomenal springboard. So she takes compliments willingly:
I don’t want this to sound pretentious in any way, but my physique has given me so much. I have a journey that is unique. I was still mistreated when I was a child. I had to hear and see the compliments on my physique, they were caresses that allowed me to move forward. These were superficial compliments, but they were important.
Feminist messages can take various forms, without being limited to one of the “punch” phrases or to systematic oppositions with men. Adriana Karembeu proves it by carrying a message of fullness and maturity at the age of fifty, despite a body inevitably marked by the passing years. A virtuous and worthy speech.
