Seeing her evolve on the floor of the Paris Opera for twenty years, seeing her even every week on the floor of Dance with the starswho could suspect that Marie-Agnès Gillot is a woman who suffers every day of a real illness that prevents him from moving? Force of nature, the dancer recently revealed that his prestigious career was far from being traced in recent years.
Indeed, the dancer discovered when she was a child that she suffered from severe scoliosis, a condition that distorts his spine and who could have prevented him from making a career. Moreover, his doctor offered him a treatment at the time which almost stopped everything: the operation. Her other choice, a corset, not knowing if it would work. As a young girl, she had preferred this second option, despite the pain.
“This corset bruises me to my flesh. I have to wear a T-shirt under the plastic, and the seams, too, dig into my flesh. I have my breast cut in half, bedsores in the hip, in the buttock, an open wound“, had told in an autobiography a few months ago the mother of little Paul, who stopped her career as a star dancer 5 years ago already.
Which did not prevent her from continuing to suffer: indeed, still very recently, she confided in the magazine Full Life about the pain she continues to experience. “This battle is not over, I start the second round. My (bone) disease is progressive, it will get worse and worse. I didn’t talk about it until very late, once I was a star. ‘Ah, by the way, I’m 100% disabled’. This invisible disability made me feel different. I had this chance to be animated by my vocation, which allowed me to survive, not to live“. A vocation which nevertheless allowed her to perform on the greatest stages of the world and to reach the highest level of the Paris Opera by becoming a star dancer.
Today, the dancer continues to perform regularly, especially for the Enfoirés show, of which she has been a part for a few years. An exercise far from the rigor of the Opera, of which she has not only kept good memories in recent years, and in particular since her falling out with another former dancer, Aurélie Dupont, her “Heart Sister“, with whom she does not lose hope of being reconciled one day: “I still love her and I always will, and I hope one day when we’re grandmas we can get together and put it all on the table.”