After being the FMI face for years, the former French minister Christine Lagarde is now at the head of the ECB. A career with the highest functions which forced him to upset his life as a mom.
As she approaches her 70th anniversary, Christine Lagarde is still one of the most powerful women in the world. The one who was notably Minister of the Economy under Nicolas Sarkozy and director of the IMF was forced to sacrifice, a little, her private life, to lead such a career.
Christine Lagarde guilty of her absence: “They don’t live that very well“”
Before being at the head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde held several leading functions, notably that of Minister of the Economy in France from 2007 to 2011. At that time, she had to constantly rebalance her life as a mother with the requirements of her functions. A difficult exercise, which she spoke of frankly in the columns of Paris Match : “It takes a lot of love, tolerance and infinitely patience. You need a lot from people who love you to have broken weekends“She explained.
Regularly classified among the most influential personalities in the world by the magazine TimeChristine Lagarde remains a mother confronted with the dilemmas of absence. Despite their adulthood, his two sons, Pierre-Henri and Thomas, felt the weight of this distance imposed by the requirements of his functions. “”They don’t live that very well“She had confided with sincerity.”Even if they are tall, it is not easy to have the impression that your mother belongs in priority to others“She added.
Christine Lagarde intractable with her children: “I was right“”
Despite the passing years and the independence of her sons, Christine Lagarde remains an attentive mother. And sometimes she even agrees to give them economy lessons! During a meeting with students in Frankfurt in 2023, the 69 -year -old’s housewife shared an amazing anecdote, reported by the Reuters news agency. One of his sons would have lost a lot of money by investing in cryptocurrencies.
However, Christine Lagarde is well known not to hide her skepticism with regard to cryptocurrencies. She also explained that she had strongly advised against her son to invest there. But the latter made a completely different choice: “He ignored me, which is his privilege“Said Christine Lagarde before specifying:”And he lost almost all the money he had invested“. His son then recognized his wrongs:”When I chatted with him, he reluctantly accepted that I was right“She concluded.
