Michèle Bernier has often been the victim of fatphobia. The 68-year-old actress even assured, on RTL, that her weight had closed doors for her in her profession…
Michèle Bernier has always embraced her curves, but she has often faced fatphobia, particularly in show business. The 68-year-old actress spoke to the microphone ofWe’re doing TV again on RTL on the difficulties she encountered during her career.
Michèle Bernier, victim of grossophobia: “It’s your fault, just don’t eat!“
The star of the series The Intern Although she assumes her forms, she has sometimes been confronted with society’s judgments and criticism. “There is a side of ‘it’s your fault, you should just not eat! From the moment you eat, you exaggerate“, she quipped in the RTL show hosted by Jade and Eric Dussart, before blurting out: “We have the right to live, that’s what’s crazy!“
The former partner of Bruno Gaccio – with whom she had two children, Charlotte and Enzo – assured that she had, for her part, no problem with her image and her extra pounds: “I live very well with that, I have made peace with it. I’ll stop torturing myself with this now. There are more serious things in life! The only time to be careful is if there are health problems“. An opinion shared in particular by Marianne James, who for her part admitted that excess weight becomes a problem for physical exertion, for example.
Michèle Bernier: her weight “closed doors” to her at the cinema
Despite everything, the resident of Big Heads is convinced that her physique has served her more than once in her profession as an actress, mainly on the big screen: “I imagine that has already closed doors for me in cinema. It is sure and certain. Even without talking about curves, I think the problem is that a woman has to physically please the producer and the director. As long as there are only straight men doing this, it’s going to be: ‘This one turns me on, that one doesn’t turn me on.’ It’s a job of desire.“
A few years earlier, Michèle Bernier had already spoken on the subject in the magazine The two of us and declared: “Cinema loves glamorous girls who can boast beauty products: for me, it would be dishwashing products“. At the time, the one who passed castings to play in Harry Potter had already done the work of self-acceptance: “I have spent my life wanting to be thin. Well, I never will be. Today, I just have a weight limit not to exceed because I know that beyond that, I won’t feel well.“
