Laetitia Casta, mother of four children, sometimes encounters problems in their education, especially with her teenagers. But the 46-year-old actress knows it: she is far from perfect!
Laetitia Casta may be adored by part of the planet, but the 46-year-old actress and ex-model knows that appearances are often deceiving. If she conveys the image of a perfect woman with a well-ordered life, the reality is quite different, as she confided to Madame Figaro…
Laetitia Casta sees adolescence “through her children”: “Everything I couldn’t experience”
Laetitia Casta did not have an adolescence like the others. At 15, this Normandy native was noticed during a Miss Lumio beauty contest in Haute-Corse and, from then on, her modeling career was launched. “I was thrown straight into work“, confided the one who has not experienced the vicissitudes of adolescence, but who discovers them through her children, Sahteene, 23 years old, born from her former relationship with the photographer Stéphane Sednaoui, Orlando, 18 years old, and Athena, 15 years old, the fruit of her former love with the actor Stefano Accorsi, as well as Azel, 3 years old, whom she had with her husband Louis Garrel.
“I look at it as something wonderful: the mess in the bedroom, the exploration of your own world, that ‘I need your help, but at the same time no, I don’t want your help’ side. I find it very healthy. It’s everything I haven’t been able to experience and I say to myself: ‘What a joy to experience it through my children!’ That they have this possibility“, she detailed.
Laetita Casta, a not “perfect” mother: she confides in her “mistakes”
Laetitia Casta therefore tries to be patient and forgiving with her children… and with herself! “I’m far from perfect. I make mistakes like everyone else, and those mistakes are important. Perfect parents would be nightmarish“, she assured before adding: “I have a calm look at their metamorphosis. This chrysalis side which becomes a filthy earthworm then, then, a magnificent butterfly. It’s powerful and very beautiful to see“.
The actress’s children are growing up in an era where the #MeToo revolution has freed up speech. However, she wishes to point out that sexual violence is a real subject outside the world of cinema. “These dangers are specific to life and they begin well before. On a daily basis. For example, when we say to a child: ‘Give the lady a kiss’. It may seem like a detail, but a child is not an instrument“, declared the one who tries, as best as she can, to give her children the weapons to face life.
