“If we have extra pounds: leave us alone!”
This is the watchword that Valérie Trierweiler wants to favor as a good resolution. A mantra to adopt in 2025, that's for sure: the journalist, author and ex-partner of President François Hollande literally chanted it on the set of Quelle époque!
Facing Léa Salamé, the media personality came to present the new work co-written with her colleague Constance Vergara: “It’s for a friend!”. A judicious “Manual for people in their fifties” which combines intimate, feminist issues, denunciation of diktats and the cult of the regime, aimed at women going through menopause – that other taboo.
And Valérie Trierweiler does not hesitate to say the terms on Léa Salamé's set. Even if it means teasing… Carla Bruni.
“Who cares!” : the facetious words of Valérie Trierweiler on the complexes imposed on menopausal women (and on women in general)
“I found the solution: I don’t eat!”
This is what Carla Bruni apparently recommends regarding the “concern” of post-menopausal weight gain. It is this quote that Léa Salamé brandishes in front of her interlocutor…
Who retorts, not without facetiousness: “Yes, that’s his method! But I can't skip a meal. So obviously I have extra pounds. I want to say: leave us alone!“. And her colleague Constance Vergara develops in the same tone within the set…
“In fact at 50 we are tired of ticking boxes, we no longer want to respond to any injunctions. We put up with these extra pounds“, effectively defends the co-author. “We have proven ourselves professionally, we have shown who we are for a long time. We have nothing left to prove! We are free. This story of extra pounds, we don't care!“
Maybe Carla Bruni would approve of this speech?
“Menopause is a decade when many couples break up, where bodies change, where the world of work becomes tougher“, in any case deciphers the journalist to Ouest France. “But it is also for women a period of liberation from all injunctions”
“It’s an opportunity to discover ourselves and assert ourselves, to build different relationships. It’s up to us to make this one of the best periods of our lives. Without pretense, without taboo, but with humor and sparing no one“. More kilos, but more well-being too. QED?
