Delphine Colas confides in the loss of her baby and her mourning

She is still a hit with TF1 viewers. Every day the show Large families: life in XXL allows you to discover the unusual daily life of different clans, which have five, eight or even ten children. Tuesday, June 28, fans of the program were able to meet a new tribe, that of the couple from Isère formed by Olivier and Delphine Colas, together for 12 years. The 42-year-old logistics manager and the 39-year-old photographer are the heads of a blended family of 5 children : Selena (17 years old) and Gabriel (14 years old), from a first union of Delphine Colas, as well as Paul (8 years old), Louise (7 years old) and Alba (17 months).

In this first episode, Delphine Colas confided in particular on her lifestyle change. This former Spanish teacher has indeed chosen to take a different path after having lived through a tragic event. “If I decided to drop everything and resign, it’s because I had a kind of realization about the fragility of life“she explained in the show, as related Purepeople. Delphine Colas then revealed that her youngest, Albaoriginally had a twin brother, Victor. However, “life has decided otherwise, and unfortunately [leur] little boy was born, and did not live“she revealed.

Delphine Colas had “the chance to squeeze [son] baby”

Still marked by this sudden and heartbreaking loss, Olivier and Delphine Colas cherish the moments they were able to spend with their baby before his death. “We also had the chance to to hold our baby, to have him with us, to have our two babies at birth“, said the mother of the family. For the latter, Alba “will always carry within it his brother’s strength“. And if the little boy is no more, the bereaved parents still feel his presence on a daily basis. “Today, we live for him, we are eight in our clan“assured Delphine Colas in the show.

Her vocation as a photographer, the mother of five found her after this tragedy. “I was able to keep memories of our baby thanks to the photo“she slipped, before adding: “It’s also something that made me realize the importance of capturing moments and I find that the profession of photographer is incredible, it’s not an ‘unimportant’ job, it’s a great job. We give people memories that last a lifetime.” Now driven by the desire to immortalize precious moments for others, Dephine Colas has managed to find new meaning in her life, thanks to her son.