At 62, Mimie Mathy can be proud of her incredible journey. The world of the 7ᵉ art no longer holds any secrets for her. On screen or on stage, the artist always manages to surprise his audience. It is also thanks to her job that she met the man of her life. In 2003, while Mimi Mathy was playing her show (I love chatting with you, editor’s note) in Saint-Brieuc, she brought a spectator on stage… Who would later become her husband.
Between Benoist Gérard and the star, it was obvious. Two years later, the duo got married! Very quickly, the lovebirds then imagine expanding their beautiful family. An intimate subject that Mimie Mathy mentioned in the program “Sept à Huit” on TF1 in 2021.” We tried and then it didn’t work so I wasn’t going to have one at all costs from the moment when in the wedding basket he had brought me 4 delicious children and to manage too, it didn’t was not serious, she confided philosophically.
“The world is hard…”
Suffering from achondroplasia (a bone pathology that causes dwarfism, editor’s note), Mimie Mathy also had the fear of transmitting this disease to her offspring. “There is a risk, it’s a chance in 4 and taking the risk at 45 of waiting for the decisive ultrasound after 4 months and saying to yourself: ‘What am I doing? Do I keep it or do I not keep it? Will he be angry with me if I give birth to him and he is like me?’ We cannot consciously not ask ourselves the question.added the main interested party.
But also : “The world is hard and I didn’t want my future child to be able to bite if he ever found himself in the same situation as me. Would I have been as strong as my parents were? I do not know. » Now, Mimie Mathy flourishes alongside her grandchildren whom she cherishes every day. “One by one, they ask me the question: ‘Grandma, why are you small?’ I say: ‘I don’t know, is it serious?’ […]. I love them […] », admitted the artist and concluded: “They make it good for me.”
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