An emblematic columnist for La Maison des maternales (Monday to Friday at 9:30 a.m. on France 2) since September 2017, the midwife has published C’est ma pregnancy (Ed. L’Iconoclaste), a rich, reassuring and guilt-free book for future mothers.
Through your guide to motherhood, It’s my pregnancy are you trying to transmit a word that is without taboo, that is not confiscated by the “experts” of the TV sets?
Anna Roy: It’s exactly that. What I write is very square on a scientific level but also translates what I think. This is the result of my field experience. I know by heart what I’m talking about!
To what do you attribute your popularity on social networks (@_anna.roy_ on Instagram)? Is it precisely because you speak the same language as your subscribers?
I think it’s because I’m sincere while a lot of people in the media lie or play the game expected of them. And I am a brave and approachable person; which sometimes turns out to be complicated when people I don’t know kiss me like good bread or cry in my arms. It always surprises me because I don’t measure what I let appear.
Do you have the impression of benefiting from such great freedom of tone on the set of The Kindergarten House ?
Yes, it’s something that we owe to the editor-in-chief, to the producer, but above all to Agatha Lecaron, who trusts me completely. I’ve never been held back on anything. This show is the world of Care Bears because we have a real bond outside the screen.
Do you think that your commitment has been able to move the lines on certain social issues, in particular on the lack of staff of midwives?
It’s not for me to say because that would be to have a particularly excessive pride. I am in any case a whistleblower because everything I announced happened. But I don’t see myself as an activist.
Why have you now chosen to no longer practice in the hospital?
I am still evolving as a liberal midwife, but I took a break at the hospital because the working conditions there were no longer acceptable. To me, that’s institutional abuse. Moreover, I am a mother of two young children and I cannot be on all fronts. Today, I earn less from my living, but I devote more time to my patients.
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