Laurent Ournac’s life changed in 2015. That year, the 41-year-old actor had a sleeve gastrectomy – which involves removing 75% to 80% of the stomach. An operation thanks to which he quickly lost more than 60 kilos. But the fight against the pounds is not over for all that for the star of Camping Paradise (TF1). Since then, the dad of Capucine (9 years old) and Léon (2 years old) always struggles not to fall back into his faults and it is not always easy.
Laurent Ournac weighed up to 142 kilos. This is how the public discovered it in My Incredible Fiancé. But, for reasons of comfort and health, Ludivine’s husband chose to go through the operation box in order to change his silhouette. And the result was not long in coming, to his greatest happiness. When he came to Sophie Davant’s show on M Radio, Saturday, December 11, 2021, he explained that he had gained weight since. A difficult situation to live with. “It’s hard to see yourself regain pounds a few years later and to tell yourself that the body you no longer wanted is coming back. It’s hard enough and it’s violent enough for the people who go through this“, he regretted.
Laurent Ournac remembered that following his operation, he had “no control over [son] body“.”I saw myself getting thinner, thinner, thinner … No matter how much I overindulged, I continued to lose weight, so it was something very new in my life. But in the end, it stretches a bit like an elastic and when you release the elastic, theThe elastic goes up again and in fact the weight curve is a bit the same. I find it harder today to see myself gain pounds, than to lose them. The weight was flying away with a lot of negative things“, he continued.
A long fight for Laurent Ournac
Sad confidences. Especially since some Internet users do not hesitate to point out to him his weight gain. Invited at the end of June on the airwaves of Europe 1 in in It feels good, Laurent Ournac declared: “Here I am in the phase where I resume, which is very difficult. Because there is the look that says: ‘Ah he lost, but he picked up anyway.’ Social networks are terrible for that, because as much as my scale reminds me of it regularly, but social networks remind me of it too.“
It was not the first time that he spoke of his constant struggle against the pounds. In July 2020, Laurent Ournac gave an interview to here is. He explained that the first two years after the operation were superb because the patients reached quickly “an ideal weight“.”So we bypass the rules of protocol a little and we grow bigger. This is where you have to be careful not to switch back to your old reflexes, because the disease is still there and the battle is tough. (…) What is horrible is the guilt, the shame of coming back to see the doctors who operated on you“, he concluded.