“I dreamed of having a firm chest so that I could feel like a woman sooner than later.” Vanessa Paradis confides about her relationship with her body early in her career.

Being famous at a very young age affects how you look at yourself, and Vanessa Paradis can attest to that. “Becoming a singer and very famous overnight, it turned my teenage life upside down,” confirms the singer in an episode of the podcast. Totemic de France Inter aired on Monday, April 17, 2023. While she insists she “chose” this path, the actress nonetheless acknowledges that this early celebrity had some “flaws” in return. With a slender figure and an eternally youthful face, the bird of paradise especially evokes an urgent desire to appear older than it is; “At the age of fourteen I had a terrible desire to be a woman. I put on too much make-up, I dressed too tight,” she says. the translator of Joe cabin even talks about the physical complex. “I dreamed of having a firm chest so that I could feel like a woman before my time,” she admits.

Models of femininity

At the time, her role model for femininity was Marilyn Monroe, whose beauty she says she first admired at the age of six. “There were photos of him in my parents’ library, among the Betamax tapes and books, it upset me. There was so much grace and femininity. I was captivated, – Lily-Rose Depp’s mother remembers – I was attached to this look, this smile. She taught me a lot about how to move, perform on stage, dance, embrace your femininity. She also cites Ella Fitzgerald as her role model, whom she found “so feminine, so graceful, so free and so avant-garde.”

Indeed, in interview with Madame Figaro Published in early April 2023, Vanessa Paradis has already stated that her ideal of a woman is the “opposite” of what she was at that age and what she is today, praising Marilyn as well as Beatrice Dahl or Romy Schneider. Today, at just 50, Chanel’s muse wants to “support her age,” as she told us in this same interview. “It’s a philosophy, a job. Me, I’m trying to feel good. I do sports, meditate, try to eat well, sleep well, even if I am not always reasonable and sometimes I violate this discipline,” he said. Before graduation. “And that’s good. I also wouldn’t want the idea of ​​being a prisoner of my body and my image. You have to know how to have fun, break the rules, not be healthy all the time.