Iconic face of C8Sandrine Arcizet is one of the presenters of Gym Direct since 2005. If it pushes viewers to surpass themselves by doing sport, it sometimes forgets itself… Monday October 23, 2023, on the set of the show At Jordan’son C8the host revealed having been to the doctor in 2019 after a throat problem. “There, he said to me ‘your heart is pounding, I would like you to see a cardiologist’. Very active, I don’t really pay attention to the story, I leave the envelope on my desk for two months, but in July, I tell myself that I have time. It’s true that in the evening when I fell asleep, I listened to my heart and it was beating hard. So I go to see a cardiologist who tells me that there is a slight heart failure.“, she explained. Then the sky would have fallen on her head. “And then I especially have an aortic aneurysm. […] It was actually a balloon, it had grown. An aneurysm bursts, so if we don’t do anything, bam it bursts at any time“she clarified.
Sandrine Arcizet: “I told everyone around me that I was going to die”
Anxious, the 46-year-old host then had morbid thoughts. “For me, I was dead. I dreamed of my funeral, I saw my friends reading texts. I told everyone around me that I was going to die”she explained to Jordan de Luxe. After his open heart surgerySandrine Arcizet had a lot of difficulty accepting her scar. And for good reason, the host often wears sports bras. “We see this part of my body all the time. For two years, it was complicated”, she assured. Finally, the host recognizes today that it was “super well done” and assumes. “It reminds me that I am alive, that I am here, that I continue my activities as before, that I live my life as before. I am with my partner and my boy, everything is fine”, she confided with a smile. Friday August 6, 2021, for Gala, the host indicated that she had done sophrology sessions and self-hypnosis after his operation. She was also able to count on the support of her son, born in 2015. “When I got home, Robin was there, he was helping me walk all the time. […] When my son saw my scar, he said ‘it looks like a boat sail’, he was really adorable. And as a result, it really gives a lot of strength.”she had slipped.
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