For several weeks, viewers have been following Natasha St-Pier’s journey in Dancing with the Stars, every Friday evening on TF1. Indeed, the Canadian singer is one of the candidates for this 13th season of the dance program.
Aged 43, she dances alongside professional dancer Anthony Colette and performs ballroom dances: jive, contemporary, salsa and even Argentine tango. Performances praised by both viewers and the show’s judges.
The singer of the famous hit You will find is still in the running in the competition since she will be on the floor this evening, Friday April 12 during the quarter-final bonus.
Bixente, his son, seriously ill
In November 2015, Natasha St-Pier expressed her happiness at having gave birth to her first child, a boy, named Bixente. This adorable toddler was born from her love affair with her ex-spouse, the Paris firefighter, Grégory Quillacq.
The happiness linked to the arrival of Bixente was short-lived for the couple since Bixente was suffering from a serious illnessdetected even before her birth, when Natasha St-Pier was 5 months pregnant.
The newborn suffered fromheart disease and more specifically tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect characterized by ventricular septal defect, obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract, an aortic root straddling the interventricular septum, and right ventricular hypertrophy. Enough to plunge the parental couple into deep concern.
Open heart surgery
A few months later, when he was only 4 months old, Bixente had to undergo major open heart surgery. By the teams at Necker hospital in Paris. It was his mother who shared this information with her fans on social networks in March 2016: “For several months I have been talking to you about my little boy, he had surgery and is doing well. He is slowly recovering. I even think he’s under the spell of a nurse. Talking to you about it allowed me to make it even more alive and your messages illuminated every little moment where doubt could have set in.“, wrote the singer on her Facebook account.
Today, Bixente is in great shape and can admire his mother dancing every week live on TF1, despite the tensions and the clash which opposed him to the comedian Inès Reg.