Even today, being a plump actress is complicated. In any case, this is what Michèle Bernier said on RTL this Saturday, during a frank discussion on fatphobia.
At the microphone of RTL this Saturday, January 11, in “We are remaking TV”, Michèle Bernier discussed several subjects such as her time in “Mask Singer”, her refusal to participate in the shows “Dancing with the Stars” or “Les Traitors” , the 10 years of the attention of “Charlie Hebdo”, of which her father Professor Choron was the co-founder… The actress also spoke frankly about grossophobia.
“I don’t know why we blame them [aux personnes avec des rondeurs, NDLR]. There’s a “It’s your fault, you just shouldn’t eat” side. But we still have the right to live,” said Michèle Bernier. However, the 68-year-old actress confided that she had not particularly suffered the weight of people’s gazes.
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“I live very well with that,” she said, adding in English that “life is too short”. “There are more serious things in life […]. We have to accept what we are. I burn badly, I burn badly! “, she said derisively. Michèle Bernier nevertheless emphasizes that “the only time in life when you have to be careful is when you have health problems”.
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Fatphobia in all honesty, from mother to daughter
When asked whether professional opportunities could have escaped her because of her body shape, the actress’ response was immediate: “Yes, that’s for sure. Beyond the problem of curves, there is a moment when you have to please the producer and the director. As long as there are only straight men doing this, they will say “this one excites me, this one doesn’t excite me”. It’s a job of desire,” she explained.
The harassment of curvy people, the actress Charlotte Gaccio, daughter of Michèle Bernier, also spoke about it openly in her show “Énorme” in 2015. “My mother spent a good part of her life on a diet. We helped each other accept each other. I let go very early for fear of being unhappy and frustrated all my life,” she told Paris Match at the time.
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A few days ago, it was with this frankness that characterizes her that Michèle Bernier spoke of her painful breakup with Bruno Gaccio, the father of her children, in “Sept à Huit”. If the figure of “Big Heads” is increasing the number of interviews at the start of the year, it is because she is promoting her new show “Lily & Lily”, which will be launched on January 29 at the Théâtre de Paris.
