“I stopped gaining weight, I finally stopped eating.” in mid-menopause, Carla Bruni refused all meals except dinner;

Speech becomes free during menopause. Long considered an intimate and taboo subject, this phase that every woman goes through is being discussed more widely. Especially through celebrities who are more likely to speak out about what affects half the population. Journalist Elsa Wolinsky caught up with several personalities on her Come on Dare podcast to find out how they’re experiencing this phase. The last guest, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, spoke very transparently about her feelings. “Talking doesn’t scare me. Silence annoys me. I believe that diseases thrive in silence. Not expressing something is pathological. Any trauma, even the most serious, begins to dissolve as soon as it is said.”

When the reporter asks her about the menopause phase, the model replies that she doesn’t know. “I’m just in this transition phase, which is my fifties to my sixties, which I think is very special for women and a lot more than for men because there’s a hormonal break and so on… And changes that are similar for me. youth. This is old youth.”

The singer explains that she noticed something common to all women going through menopause: weight gain. “But I don’t know anyone who doesn’t gain weight. I stopped gaining weight. I finally just stopped eating, but that was within the last two years. Before, I had a normal life.” Before explaining that to avoid gaining weight, he eats one meal instead of three. “I’m only having dinner. But it is for professional reasons. If I were to do business without image circumstances, I would gain five kilograms. Quiet, gentle. Because, to be honest, it is not my husband who will complain, and I, at the age of 56, with a little more cheeks, if I gained 4-5 kilograms, I would not even be aesthetically dissatisfied. I wouldn’t want to take a 15, but just take a size that would afford me.”

However, the previous model does not allow it. “It worries me about myself.” He also explains that public image is a kind of defense that “protects you from exposure to other things, but protects against indifference. To me, having a public image with all that entails is worth less than being completely unknown. Unknown to me, I sink a little into nothingness. It’s really personal.”

But this refusal to gain weight is also a health issue for him. “Diseases love fat. They don’t like sports. If you constantly exercise, you have much less diseases.” Before assuring that he inquired about the causes of breast cancer, specifically mentioning the fact of being a smoker, taking the pill or having a late child. Fear that his doctor canceled.

Among other symptoms of menopause, the singer mentions a strong need for sleep, mood swings, but also hot flashes, which she limits especially with cold showers, a technique she has mastered for many years for her well-being.