Virginie Grimaldi opens up about the death of her baby on the day she gave birth in A Sunday in the Country

Guest in a new issue ofA Sunday in the countryside this November 24 on France 2, Virginie Grimaldi spoke to Frédéric Lopez about the loss of her baby when she was about to give birth.

He knows how to collect the most intimate confidences of personalities like no one else. Frédéric Lopez was at the head of the 50th issue ofA Sunday in the countryside this November 24 on France 2. Alongside Dany Boon who returned to the harsh words of his father when he was a child and Kendji Girac who notably spoke of the discrimination he suffered, the author Virginie Grimaldi returned to his childhood in the barn sequence, then talked about his professional beginnings. The one who grew up in the Bordeaux region embarked on a BTS commercial action work-study program. At 30, she created a Myspace account and kept the fictitious diary of a certain Léa. She decides to dive into the deep end of writing by sending eight manuscripts to different publishing houses… All of them are returned.

“It's a child who existed“: Virginie Grimaldi opens up about the death of her baby in A Sunday in the countryside

Despite this failure, she put online a blog called Woman sweet womanfilled with chronicles of daily life. But an ordeal will completely change his life at the age of 33. “I am pregnant with my first child and the day I go to give birth, the pregnancy ends. He dies in my womb. I gave birth to this first child that we awaited with a lot of love and I plunged into a deep depression. All the tomorrows evaporate, all the plans you had. We were really at the end of the pregnancy, her room was there, there was a funeral and a birth, it was a child who existed“, she testifies.

“He's our eldest, I have three children“: Virginie Grimaldi moving in front of Frédéric Lopez while talking about the death of her baby

To recover from this ordeal, Virginie Grimaldi continues to write “things sometimes funny but often sad” on his blog. “My writing transformed at that moment and my vision of life completely transformed too. Above all, I really wanted to make him proud. I spoke to him, he always remained present, he is still present in our life. He's our eldest, I have three children. And that's how I got up, I told myself that he wouldn't like to see me in that state. Because really, I was in a terrible state. This is what helped me“, she smiles. What allowed her to keep her head above water is today a passion that keeps her alive: since 2020, she has been in second place in the ranking of the most read novelists in France.