Behind the stars and success, hides a life made of difficult choices. The cook’s cook Hélène Darroze confided in her family, her renunciations … and her regrets.
Hélène Darroze is a renowned chief of the impressive course. Sacred best chief of the world in 2015, Hélène Darroze shines with her exceptional career and her role as a juror in the show Top chef. But if everything seems to be a successful professional side, his private life is more contrasted. Mother of two girls, the 58 -year -old cook chef said in an interview, granted to Raphaële Marchal, that her sentimental life was far from being as perfect.
Hélène Darroze, frank: she “did not succeed her life as a woman” super well “
The success of Hélène Darroze did not come without sacrifices. Very invested in her career, the starry chef has often had to relegate her private life to the background. Mother of two girls adopted in Vietnam, Charlotte, 17, and Quitery, 15, she built her family in her own way, while assuming the difficult choices imposed by her passion for cooking. “”My life as a woman, I can’t say that I have been very successful“, A-T-He entrusted to Raphaële Marchal on her YouTube channel “in the row of onions”.
The godmother of Joy Smet, daughter of Johnny and Laeticia Hallyday, also mentioned the price to pay to lead such a career. “”Not everything is rosy, there have been choices to make at some point“She revealed.”For example, I find that I do not give enough room to my friends, to friendship because I lack time“She confessed.
Hélène Darroze Mother Absent? “It was hard …”
His demanding career in the world of gastronomy has also had repercussions on his family life. Long absorbed by her work, Hélène Darroze has chosen to become a mother later. “”I was a mom at 40, I think that before I couldn’t have“, She said without a wooden language. To reconcile professional life and maternity, the chef had to learn to delegate, in particular by surrounding herself with a team of confidence in her kitchens, capable of taking over when she had to be absent.
But the balance was not always easy to find. Hélène Darroze said her daughters had spent many hours in her restaurant, very close to her: “My daughters spent so much time in the office in front of the kitchens. One in the stroller sleeping, the other looking at a Disney or drawing drawings“.
At home too, she had to organize and be supported by two nannies. But some absences remain difficult to forget: “I was not there to tell the story, finally most evenings, to give the bath. But I chose right away not to feel guilty. But there are times when it was hard anyway“.
