How to manage two teenage girls in full questioning when one is oneself an icon of cinema and fashion? That’s the question Monica Bellucci has been asking herself lately! Mother hen of two teenage girls, Deva and Léonie, whose father is her ex-husband Vincent Cassel, the actress tries to find a happy medium between her Italian culture and her own experience, as she confided to the magazine Madame Figaro.
“Seeing me happy, fulfilled and passionate about my job also gives them strength. But of course I also carry with me the Italian culture where the child is king, with the good and the bad sides. I am very protective. Eat well, sleep well… which they sometimes find a bit drunk. Moreover, at home, we speak in French but we argue in Italian!” she explained with humor, aware that the two young girls, now aged 17 and 12, need space to grow.
It must be said that with such parents, Deva and Léonie are under a certain pressure! Born of the union between Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci (which ended in 2013), the teenagers have however always been very protected by their parents. A way, for their famous mother, to let them build themselves in peace, even if she feels they are following in her footsteps.
“Today, I don’t know which path Deva and Léonie will follow, but I feel that they already have an undeniable artistic sensibility.“, she continued, as her eldest daughter begins to make a name for herself in modeling. An early career that tends to worry her, but which she lets unfold without imposing herself, keeping a eye on his daughter.