Death of Grichka Bogdanoff: was he suffering from a disease?

The news was announced by his family via his agent: Grichka Bogdanoff died on December 28, 2021 at the age of 72. The host and essayist made a name for himself in the 1980s thanks to the program Temps X presented with his twin brother, Igor Bogdanoff. The two brothers became popular thanks to their popular Science first, before their personality, their mysterious past and their atypical appearance does not also become one of the factors of public curiosity. Their fascinating physique and their angular faces have also raised so many questions that a journalist, Maud Guillaumin, published the book in 2019. The Bogdanoff mystery, published by l’Archipel, in which she returns to this particularity, and especially its cause.

The Bogdanoff brothers were indeed often questioned about their physical transformation between the 90s and the following decades. They knew, however, thatmaintaining the mystery only made them more popular and fascinating, so they never gave a clear answer on what might have affected them. Thanks to Maud Guillaumin’s book, the thesis of acromegaly was ruled out. The Bogdanoff brothers did not suffer, according to the words of a doctor close to them, from this hormonal disorder which could have been responsible for an abnormal size of their feet, their hands, and a deformation of the face.

An ultimately very simple explanation

Finally, the most obvious trail is also the most probable. Still according to Maud Guillaumin’s book, it is almost certain that Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff had use of cosmetic surgery to transform their faces. Indeed the twins had “a very complicated relationship with the idea of ​​aging, with death“according to the words quoted in the book. It is therefore entirely possible that they tried to keep their youth, or in any case that of their features, thanks to several cosmetic surgery operations. According to Jean-Paul Enthoven, also quoted by Maud Guillaumin, “They seek a form of eternal youth. And since it is impossible to rejuvenate without transforming, their metamorphosis is straightforward”.

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