Always a smile on his face, a laugh and joy of life, but nevertheless a difficult past. This Friday, January 24, 2025, Stéphane Plaza’s best friend, Jeanfi Janssens, was one of Faustine Bollaert’s guests for her show It starts today on France 2.
In addition to the former steward who became a comedian, Maxime Chattam’s companion also received the dancer from Dancing with the starsChristophe Licata, as well as the influencer Julie, known under the pseudonym Douze Février. The latter agreed to evoke part of their life for the theme “Mental health: celebrities lift the veil”.
Jeanfi Janssens was “a little overweight” during his childhood
While he initially agreed to discuss his homosexuality, the 51-year-old comedian then wanted to return to the anorexia and bulimia from which he suffered. A disorder caused by being overweight during childhood.
“I come from a family from the North with a mother who cooked everything with butter, I was a little overweight”, he confided to Faustine Bollaert with humor. A humor which also allowed him to integrate without having to play on his appearance as the main person confided.
It was while attending a boarding school that his life completely changed. And that he began to experience weight problems and above all, an impressive loss of pounds. “As I was not controlled, I had complete freedom to do anything with my body, that is to say anorexia and bulimia”he revealed to Faustine Bollaert.
He reveals his “diet” to Faustine Bollaert”
Indeed, Jeanfi Janssens continues and confides that he “started not eating.” “When I returned to my mother’s house on the weekend, I ate knowing that I would make myself vomit two days later or that, when I got to the canteen at the boarding school, I would not eat, that I will throw everything in the trash“, he also remembers.
-Worse still, the comedian told Faustine Bollaert that there was “des phases” Or he was drinking “up to nine liters of water per day”. “As I had been told that water would help me lose weight, I had an obsession with water. And I didn’t eat anything”he explained before revealing that this “diet” made him lose “20 kilos in two months”.
“I ate a petit-suisse, I got up and I was so weak that my nose was bleeding, I had anemia… I had everything. I also stunted my growth. I’m the smallest in the family because I was growing when I did that”he also remembered. It was ultimately “thanks” to numerous illnesses that he was able to be hospitalized and receive psychological support.
