He is the man of her life, she is convinced of it. Married since December 21, 2019 to Juan Arbelaez, Laury Thilleman decided to keep her last name despite everything. Interviewed by Sylvie Tellier in 2020 during a live Instagram, she explained: “I kept my name, Juan his. We said to ourselves that we were going to affix our respective ones. My name is Thilleman-Arbelaez and he is Arbelaez-Thilleman. That’s fair. There is no woman who takes the name of the man“replied Miss France 2011.
Only problem, how will the couple do when they have children? A question raised by the director of the Miss France committee and who actually asked some questions for the two lovers. “When the baby arrives, we’ll see. It is true that it is not ideal for children. In any case, we are fine with us“, replied the former beauty queen of Breton origin.
As a reminder, the former Miss and the chef (former candidate of Top chef, season 3 in 2012) got married for the first time in Brest in 2019 before sealing their love a second time in a ceremony in South America, in Colombia more precisely, Juan’s country of origin. A year before their union, the couple had opened a restaurant in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, Vida, in 2018.
Very in love with her husband, Laury Thilleman had confided to journalists of Paris Match that she thought Juan was her “soul mate“.”I am deeply convinced of it and this is the reason why I do not want to hurry“, she had indicated.
In October 2019, the lovers had also revealed the secrets of their magic love at first sight in the show I love you, etc on France 2: “It surprised us. (…) We quickly realized that we had a lot in common. We had the impression that we had been put a small cup, as if we were in a bubble. “During the show, the 30-year-old revealed how Juan managed to seduce her on their first date, by cooking her all kinds of recipes with … artichoke, her favorite vegetable.