“I gained 25 kilos”: Alexandra Vandernoot evokes the disease from which she suffered for 7 years

It was in 1999 that the general public discovered her in the television soap opera Tramontana. However, Alexandra Vandernoot had already chained the roles since the year 1985. Aged 20, the Belgian actress had obtained a very first contract in This is not Brussels, by Benoît Lamy, while she was struggling with very disabling eating disorders. This is what she said, taking stock of her career, in the columns of the magazine Gala.

At that time, we did not know much about this disease

Barely out of adolescence, Alexandra Vandernoot actually had to face a formidable evil, relatively unknown when she was younger. “At 18, I was bulimic. I ate a lot, without making myself vomit. In one year, I gained 25 kilosshe explained. At that time, we didn’t know much about this disease, we treated it with sedatives. I only solved this problem when I was 25It was her meeting with director Bernard Uzan in particular that helped her open her eyes. The latter had produced a report on bulimia and gave her the keys to see more clearly.

Bernard Uzan did not just mention Alexandra Vandernoot’s eating disorders. He also married her and had with her two beautiful children, Léo in 1995 and Julia in 2003. The actress was thus able to flourish, professionally, in the theater and on television… often in supporting roles. A posture that seems to suit him perfectly. “It’s even very pleasant, because you can take the temperature of different shoots and you don’t have any responsibility related to ratings on your back!“, she assured in 2019 in the magazine Cine TV Revue. After multiple appearances in Family Business, Perfect Crimes, Murders on Belle-Île, Profiling, Camping Paradis, Joséphine Ange Gardien or Research sectionthe television viewers find her, on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, on France 3 in the TV movie Bellefond, alongside Stéphane Bern and Arnaud Binard. To your zapettes!

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