Sonia Mabrouk, who gave birth to her first child last July, named her daughter Soraya. This name is very dear to her heart for a very specific reason.
At 46, Sonia Mabrouk gave birth to her first child last July, a little girl named Soraya.Your first name came naturally. Soraya, like your grandmother.“, she declared in a post on Instagram, to announce the birth of her daughter. The journalist confided in the origin of her daughter’s first name…
Sonia Mabrouk: why did she name her daughter Soraya?
Sonia Mabrouk lost her mother in October 2022. About a year later, the star CNews journalist became pregnant with her first child and wanted to pay a vibrant tribute to her late mother, by naming her daughter after her.We leave childhood behind once and for all when we lose our mother. I left her abruptly in October 2022. And now, today, I find the eyes of a child again as I look into yours, little angel,” she declared on Instagram, after the birth of little Soraya.
“After my mother passed away, I wondered how to revive this name. Today, I love hearing someone say it, for example when someone asks me: ‘How is Soraya?’. And I like to think that the big Soraya is watching over the little one“, she recently confided in the pages of TV Magazine.
Sonia Mabrouk: the choice of a “political” first name? Not for her!
The former partner of chef Guy Savoy is proud of this first name “Arabic of Persian origin, meaning princess“. “Having often written about spiritual and cultural transmission and heritage, this was an obvious continuity.“, she explained. Faced with potential detractors of her daughter’s name, she brushes aside the criticism and does not consider the choice of a name as “policy“.
“I have never understood the question of integration or assimilation through a first name.“, she detailed before specifying: “I have always opposed Eric Zemmour (who caused controversy by telling Hapsatou Sy that she would have been better off being called Corinne, editor’s note). I had told him so, by the way. It’s a question of behavior, of what we share in customs, in cultural codes. The first name must remain a private matter.”