In April 2023, Sophie Thibault announced that she had been diagnosed with skin cancer, which forced her to temporarily step away from her professional career to focus on her health.
At that time, she explained in a publication that: “This traitor of the sun has left its mark on my face, forehead and nose: actinic keratoses which have recently become basal cell carcinomas, which are much more worrying. The word we don’t want to hear: skin cancer!”