2023-11-18 04:00:19
Until now, Caroline Receveur had mostly filmed herself to talk about beauty products, show off a new hairstyle, and share images of moments of joy with her family and her golden retriever. But in recent months the atmosphere has changed on his Instagram account.
Tuesday, November 14, this influencer, among the most followed in France, films herself in her hospital bed, with a shaved head and reddened eyes, to talk about her mastectomy. After a hundred days of treatment and six months of chemotherapy, the thirty-year-old is exhausted and crying “of relief” in front of his 5.6 million followers.
The operating theater exit videos followed the ultra-glamorous content on July 25, when Caroline Receveur publicly announced that she was suffering from breast cancer diagnosed in the spring. “I feel empty, I have lost the taste for food and a little bit of life too. (…) I who thought I could keep “this secret”, I can no longer do it”, she explains in the caption. The video has been “liked” 1.3 million times, with tens of thousands of messages of encouragement piling up in the comments.
“It’s beyond comprehension”
The time when Brigitte Bardot, Pierre Desproges and François Mitterrand did everything to hide their illness from the public seems a long way off. In recent years, personalities like Jean-Pierre Pernaut, Florent Pagny and Evelyne Dhéliat have agreed to speak publicly about their cancer, taking part in a global movement to free speech.
At the same time, anonymous people, often much younger, recount, in books, plays and podcasts, the experience of the illness lived from the inside. With the aim of feeling less alone, but also of overturning the clichés about these pathologies which will affect one in five men and one in six women in the world during their lifetime, according to 2018 figures from the International Center for Research on the cancer.
How is cancer diagnosed? What are the physical and psychological consequences of chemotherapy? How do you deal with hair loss at 30?
In the podcast “My life facing cancer: Clémentine’s diary”, broadcast by Franceinfo since May, Clémentine Vergnaud answers all these questions by retracing the” breaking in “ cholangiocarcinoma, a very rare and particularly aggressive cancer, diagnosed in June 2022. “It’s beyond comprehension, it’s hard to believe, we ask ourselves: ‘What did I do to deserve this?’ We blame fate, chance, the Universe”says the 31-year-old journalist, boyish cut and light makeup, met in a café near her home, in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine).
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