A strong testimony. Michelle Yeoh, first Asian woman named best actress by the Academy of Oscars for her role in “Everything, everywhere all at once” in 2023, spoke about her inability to become a mother in the BBC podcast Woman's hour. The actress who always wanted to start a family experienced this ordeal as “a real failure”, even if she now claims to have stopped “blaming” herself.
Michelle Yeoh, soon to star in “Madame Morrible,” says her marriage to businessman Sir Dickson Poon was partly “focused on having children.” It's “honestly not for lack of trying, because I have always loved and I still love babies”, she specifies, adding that she blamed herself a lot after the failure of her fertility treatment.
“Every month, we experience it as a failure,” adds the actress, now 62 years old. And then we wonder why? And I think that at some point, we stop blaming ourselves. I tell myself that there are certain things in our body that don't work in a certain way. That's how it is. You just have to let go and move on. And I think we're getting to a point where we need to stop blaming ourselves. »
Asked about the time it took her to accept her infertility, she admits she still thinks about it sometimes. “It took a long time because it was also perhaps the main factor that broke up my first marriage,” adds Michelle Yeoh. “You also have to understand that these are conversations that you really have to have with yourself and be able to look into the future and think: yes, we love each other a lot now, but in 10 or 20 years, I won't always be able to not give him the family he longs for. And you have to be fair,” continues the actress who was married to Dickson Poon from 1988 to 1992.
The actress, also seen in “The Memories of a Geisha”, remarried last year to French sports director Jean Todt, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2004. The actress who already has six godchildren and “many nieces and nephews” also welcomed a grandchild thanks to his son-in-law and his wife. News that made her feel “blessed” because despite everything, she has “a baby in her life”.
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