Revealed to the general public through the Miss France 2011 election, Laury Thilleman has become an essential presenter on France Télévision. This sports enthusiast, who launched a podcast called How do you do it?will be the new face of the show Meet in unknown land. On September 4, 2024, it was on her Instagram account that Laury Thilleman shared the happy news through a video rich in emotion in which Frédéric Lopez asked her to take over from Raphaël de Casabianca.
The latter had explained that he wanted to stop broadcasting the show, Wednesday June 19, 2024, to our colleagues at Parisian : “Rendezvous in an unknown land is physically and psychologically intense and we don't get used to saying goodbye. I was attached to the idea of seeing the people I met again, but I quickly understood that this was simply impossible. It became harder and harder to manage and, over time, I became more and more fragile, I think. […] We do not emerge from these experiences unscathed. This is true for my guests, but even more so when you experience each trip intensely several times a year.”
Laury Thilleman: “My body gave way”
If Miss France 2011 felt ready to take on the challenge, it is in particular because she now knows her limits and makes sure to give her all to projects that are really close to her heart. During the first part of his career, Laury Thilleman accepted numerous projects, saying “oui” to almost everything that was offered to him. The year she turned thirty, she experienced a real upheaval and suffered from burnout. “For ten years I was caught in a whirlwind of requeststo meet the expectations of others, and I think that deep down, I didn't really listen to myself. At 30 years old it didn't fail, my body gave way, my head gave way, my heart told me stop. I experienced real emotional, mental and physical chaos“, she told the media LouFriday December 13, 2024.
Laury Thilleman back with her parents
She remembers the feeling of losing her footing that she felt during this period: “It's like a black ball that was deep inside me and which burst forth without me even seeing it happen. Beyond the external pressure that we are put on to be an accomplished woman, professionally, personally, the subject of motherhood…“She then decided to pack her bags in Bali to rest and surf. But there, her body again asked her to take it easy. She fractured her knee.
Back in France, the host made the decision to come back and live with her parents in order to take care of her: “I was told that I had four months before walking again. And I said: 'But it's not possible, I have this show, this set…' And I was told that it wasn't possible: 'You have a work stoppage'. And I said 'no' to 18,000 things and it was the greatest gift of my life In fact. And then, I go back to my parents and I become Laury again, 12 and a half years old. Take care of me! I need love.” She then learned to take care of herself again.
