On social networks, she never hesitates to appear natural. At 47, Flavie Flament seems more fulfilled than ever… and that’s probably why Faustine Bollaert thought of her for the dossier devoted to self-confidence in her magazine, Between us. However, the facilitator was starting from afar. She actually lived a childhood not conducive to the flattery of the ego.
I was bullied by my mother, for whom I was not smart, not pretty, just ugly and fat
“The look that was laid on me was really failingshe recalls in the pages of the magazine. I was both adored by my grandfather and flattered by my mother, for whom I was not intelligent, not pretty, just ugly and fat. From the age of 11, I had to weigh myself every morning, she never took me shopping with her because she felt that I was not beautiful or thin enough… All the confidence that my grand- father breathed into me on one side was broken on the other!“
I was not proud of myself at all!
For years, Flavie Flament hated this body that she had to endure on a daily basis. Then life, the children – she is the mother of Antoine and Enzo, 26 and 18 years old, from her relationship with Benjamin Castaldi – changed this look so difficult that she had on her. It was finally at 35 that she began to appreciate herself… even to love herself! “When I see pictures of me at 20-25, I tell myself that if I had known, I would have enjoyed it more.she jokes. At the time, I didn’t eat, I didn’t dare to put on a bathing suit, I wasn’t proud of myself at all! I had been raised in the cult of the physical by a mother who thought that I would only succeed there. And what’s crazy is that today, when I’m no longer 20 years old or the body of that age, I take advantage of who I am so much more! I have a lot less complexes than before.”
Find the interview of Flavie Flament in the magazine Between us, n ° 6, of June 23, 2022.