This Monday, April 8, 2024, Laure Manaudou celebrates her 37th birthday. Known for having been a great French swimming champion, she today leads a well-ordered life in the Arcachon basin, with her husband, the singer Jérémy Frérot, and their three children. Laure Manaudou is the mother of a 13-year-old daughter named Manon, born from her marriage to swimmer Frédérick Bousquet. With her current husband, she then gave birth to two little boys, namely Lou, born in July 2017, and a second in January 2021 whose first name remains unknown.
And if Laure Manaudou is happier today than ever, she confided in her autobiographical entitled “Between the lines” published in 2014, that she almost had a second child with her first husband. In March 2013, the swimmer had just announced her retirement from sport and was forced to have an abortion… when she was four months pregnant, for medical reasons.
With hindsight, she subsequently explained that this intervention was literally a sign of destiny, particularly because at that time, her relationship was going through a difficult period. “If I wanted to expand our family, it was mainly because I wanted a brother or sister for Manon with the same parents as her.” she admitted in her work before saying that ultimately everything was “better that way”.
Laure Manaudou: her unexpected confidences about her marriage to Frédérick Bousquet
“I feel like Fred and I haven’t had anything to say to each other for a while.” she also writes. Then : “My relationship, which was already weakened, could not withstand such an ordeal. A month later, Fred and I are officially separated. For Manon, for this upcoming baby, I reject the disturbing and worrying idea that perhaps I no longer love her. Or not enough. So, I don’t say anything, even if I move away, he feels it and he suffers from it.” We thus learn that the swimming champion hid her face and preferred to think about her family life.
After their breakup, the couple finally managed to agree on shared custody, namely one week with one, a week with the other. In 2024, things have changed as Manon lives with her mother throughout the year and goes to her father’s house every vacation.