Godmother and ambassador of the Pink Ribbon association, which organizes the Pink October operation each year, Alice Detollenaere and Camille Lacourt experienced the disease up close. Wednesday January 8, 2020, the young woman revealed on Instagram that she was suffering from breast cancer. Although it has been cured since her double mastectomy, she went through a very complicated period.
“When I found out I had breast cancer at 32, it was like a tsunami. For me, it was really hard to deal with because I was a model. I’m still a model, I works with my image so obviously, I was afraid of losing my job, of losing my independence And above all,.
I was afraid of losing my partner because we had been together for a year“she confided on Saturday October 5, 2024 in an interview for Brut.
Camille Lacourt: “I wanted to be by his side”
Sitting next to her companion, whose hand she was holding, Alice Detollenaere said: “I told myself that maybe he wouldn’t want to continue his journey with me, which I could have understood. I offered him to leave me if he wanted to“. For her part, Camille Lacourt assured that this was not one of the options.
“I wanted to be by his side, and afterward, we got through it together”he said.
Moved, the mother of little Marius explained: “It’s very scary to think that we are going to lose our femininity and what our relationship will be like after that. Camille healed me as a woman from all my fears. It was thanks to him that I understood that I was not beautiful through my breasts, I was beautiful through something else, and that we women are capable of being stronger than that, ‘go further than that’. Despite the illness, Alice Detollenaere felt “stronger and more beautiful” thanks to his companion.
Alice Detollenaere: “We got past that and I said to myself that it was really the right one”
In complete transparency, the Olympic champion explained that the aftermath had been complicated. “I went back to work fully, I went back into sport, and in fact, Alice, she was still traumatized by what she had just gone through.
Mentally, it was complicated. And there, there is a gap that has widened, but in a few days, a few weeks. We had to see a therapist who told Alice that, in fact, it might be cancer that was causing our problems. Alice didn’t want to talk about it again at all because she wanted to leave him behind and so she slammed the therapist’s door.”he remembered.
For Lou Média, Alice Detollenaere had already praised her companion. A few days earlier, she had indeed indicated: “He stayed by my side. He was my pillar. We got past that and I told myself that he was really the one. It did me good not to feel him panicking. He was always very confident and kept telling me everything would be fine. He helped me a lot to put things into perspective.”.
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