Mélanie Laurent, very discreet when it comes to her private life, nevertheless spoke on the subject to “One time”. The actress, mother of two, revealed that she was a single mother…
Mélanie Laurent already has a 25-year acting career under her belt. From now on, the actress only accepts roles that thrill her or that are offered to her by people dear to her heart. It must be said that the 42-year-old actress has no time to waste since she is a single mother of two children…
Mélanie Laurent raises her two children “all alone”
Mélanie Laurent stars in the film Who shines in battledirected by Joséphine Japy, an actress with whom she has been close for ten years. And it is, among other things, out of a sense of friendship that the actress agreed to play in this feature film, she who conscientiously chooses the projects in which she has participated since she became a mother. “I have two children that I raise alone and I say to myself: ‘Okay, what makes me leave the house? What makes me leave them for so many weeks? And why do I impose my absence on them?’she explained to the media One time.
Mélanie Laurent, isolated in Brittany with her children: “This bubble that we have created…”
Mother of Léo, 12 years old, fruit of her former love with a cinema technician, and Mila, 6 years old, born from a former union with an American whose name she does not mention, Mélanie Laurent tries to reconcile her professional life and her daily life as a mother with joy and good humor. “I have one motto: make sure that when I put my daughter to bed, she laughs and, when she wakes up, she smiles. If it works, that means there wasn’t too much stress during the day. I did the same with my son“, she confided to Madame Figaro.
And to specify: “I devote all my time to work, to my loved ones, to my children. My belly button has become secondary since my son and daughter were here. They refocused me, and this bubble that we created, I want to preserve it“.
To recharge her batteries and bring joy to her children, she chose to settle on an island in Brittany where she feels at peace, “cultivate your vegetable garden“, “do your shopping quietly“and is as close as possible to nature.”My kids go to school jumping for joy, hug the trees“, she declared to Parisian. The actress and director is fulfilled, even far from the film sets.
