Julie Andrieu celebrated her 50th birthday in February 2024. Although she seems happy and fulfilled today, she experienced difficult ordeals for a long time. Remember that her mother, the actress Nicole Courcel, was abandoned by her father when she was pregnant. The charming blonde therefore grew up without a father but always surrounded by men who took care of her.
Julie Andrieu abandoned by her father 15 days before her birth
Even before her birth, Julie Andrieu was abandoned by her father. “She met my father, they fell in love at first sight. He was already married and already had a child. He separated, lived with my mother. And I arrived, which was not at all planned“, she declared last October on the set of At Jordan's. He didn't want children… but his mother got pregnant at the age of 42. “From there, my father had to choose: he returned to his first family“, she continued, revealing that her father left her mother 15 days before her birth. It was only at the age of 8 that the food critic met her dad for the first time. She then re-watched it a few times, until his death, very recently.
With her famous mother, Julie Andrieu taken in by a star
In her youth, the wife of Stéphane Delajoux, the surgeon to the stars, was however able to connect with a father figure. Indeed, with Nicole Courcel, she was collected by Jean-Pierre Coffe, famous radio host. For a year, mother and daughter lived with the star. It was even he who passed on his love for cooking and food to Julie Andrieu. “When people ask me who I get this love of food from, I can't help but think that the vegetable purees from Jean-Pierre's vegetable garden have nothing to do with it.“, she wrote on Facebook in 2016, upon the death of Jean-Pierre Coffe.
Julie Andrieu: Before her surgeon husband, she dated a well-known figure
Julie Andrieu ended up growing up. And she knew how to surround herself. At just 18 years old, when she was working as a photographer for France-Soirshe met a colleague, Jean-Marie Périer, 34 years her senior. Very quickly, she fell in love and the couple moved in together. After a beautiful and long love story, they broke up. But the two exes have kept good relations, Julie Andrieu has even remained close to the daughter of her former partner. After that, she met Stéphane Delajoux, her current husband with whom she has two children: Hadrien born in 2012 and Gaïa born in 2015. A couple still in love!
