Line Papin felt the need to recount her experience, the traumas she went through when she considers that there is still very little literature on the subject of terminations of pregnancy, whether voluntary or not. The young 26-year-old novelist, wife of Marc Lavoine since 2020, has lived both.
In his book A possible life expected on March 2 in the Stock edition, Line Papin recounts her journey strewn with disappointment and a difficult decision to make. A few months before getting married to Marc Lavoine – a surprise union that occurred in July 2020 – Line Papin learns that she is pregnant with twins. Unfortunately for the young woman, the happiness is only of very short duration since her pregnancy suddenly ends a few weeks later. What she confirms in a long interview granted to Current wife. “The first termination of pregnancy I suffered was involuntary: I had a miscarriage at two months of pregnancy in 2020 during the first confinement, while I was expecting twins“, she confides. Nature offers her a new chance, but the wife of Marc Lavoine decides to refuse it. “The second termination of pregnancy was voluntary. I made the decision to abort a year after having a miscarriage. I immediately felt the need to put down on paper what was happening to me“, she explains with complete transparency.
These two pregnancy terminations put the couple to the test, Line Papin deciding to leave the marital home after her abortion. A necessary need for the novelist… These ordeals also brought her back to other previous problems, such as the anorexia she suffered from when she was a teenager. “These are two moments in my life during which I was crossed by the experience of death. It’s very linked for a woman, explains Line Papin to Current wife. Anorexia often causes anemia. We no longer have rules, we can’t have children. This disease therefore refers to the mother, to the question of reproduction and childbirth. It resonated with me. Pregnancy terminations have lifted a lot of things in me. The question of transmission, in particular.”
In the past, the novelist had already mentioned her anorexia and why, according to her, Marc Lavoine had been the person best able to understand. His illness, Line Papin had also told it live in The Great Library in 2019 on the occasion of the release of his novel Girls’ Bones (Stock). At 10, she went so far as to want to disappear…