Julie Van den Steen (32) suffered a pregnancy loss two years ago. Something she talked about openly in her podcast. Her desire to have children is still there, although she does not rule out that it will not happen in a traditional way, she tells Peter Van de Veire.
The VTM and Qmusic presenter has a busy schedule. There is her presenting work on radio, television and in podcast, and she will soon also be seen in a fiction series Single bells. Moreover, Van den Steen is also studying psychology again. “If I have a family in a few years, it will be much more difficult to take that into account. So I have to do that now,” she says. “Although the combination is now also quite deadly.”
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She tells it in the podcast Peter Van de Veire & The Hourglassin which he looks back and forward on the life of a famous guest and important events therein. Van den Steen herself suffered a pregnancy loss two years ago. Something that affects 1 in 6 women, and about which she made a podcast of the same name. “I still think about that,” she says. “That emotion from back then has subsided. It is at rest. It’s not that I’m emotional about it all the time, but sometimes it comes back. When friends say they are pregnant, for example. But then I almost feel guilty, because aren’t I jealous now? That’s not allowed either.”
She wants to have children one day, she thinks. Van de Veire wants to know how she sees that herself. “If I can dream? I really want to find the security that I have now found more in myself, in someone else and then start having children in a very well-considered way. I don’t rule out that it doesn’t happen in a classic way, like making a child. I have already thought about foster parenting. The older you get, the more you see those things. But I don’t have any concrete plans yet. Maybe that is also very conscious so as not to disappoint myself, because all those plans in life tend to deviate from time to time.” (eadp)
