“From the Town Hall of Bobigny to the Royal Monceau”. Kylian Mbappe’s mother looks back on the sudden change in their lives.

She is Kylian Mbappe’s shadow wife. Former Bondi professional handball player Faiza Lamari was 44 when her life was turned upside down by her son’s meteoric rise in football. A “violent” change in life that had the effect of a “tsunami”, he confided about his senior in the report of “Envoyé Spécial”, which was broadcast this Thursday, January 18. Now 49, Faiza Lamarri runs eight companies, heads the association inspired by Kylian Mbappé (IBKM) and whispers advice in the Blues captain’s ear. At the microphone of Elise Lucet, she looked back on recent years marked by real social upheaval.

“With his father it was beyond us, we were hallucinating.”

If millions of euros are now blooming in their bank accounts, the rise of the eldest of the brothers was a real shock for the Mbappe family. “Often, laughing, I say that we are Tuchers. We’re not anymore, but in the beginning, obviously, yes. You go from Bobini and Bondi town halls to the royal Monceau Palace,” Faiza Lamari compares.

It must be said that the rise of the young prodigy is dizzying. At the age of 16, Kylian wore the jersey of Monaco. Less than two years later, he won the 2018 World Cup with the Blues. Faiza Lamari looks back at this breakthrough period in her son’s career with a smile. “I remember Kylian in Monaco, we didn’t have financial negotiations with Paris, but we did it through deduction. I remember, I said. “Oh my God, you’re 18 years old, we’re going to talk about a salary in the millions.” With his father, it was beyond us, we were hallucinating,” he recalls.

The transition continues to be marked by the fear that everything will disappear. “I’m kidding, but it was very difficult. But also a lot of fun,” emphasizes Faiza Lamari, adding that she “operated for a long time with the poor man’s syndrome, which is telling yourself, ‘We’re going to wake you up.’ I’ts wrong”. A fear that now seems to be gone.