Model, stylist and then actress, Zahia Dehar has come a long way since her debut and the affair that made her famous. As an actress, she has indeed already embodied a few characters for the cinema; femme fatale roles most often. Also, on Friday September 1, 2023, the 31-year-old young woman appeared for the first time in a TV series, Captain Marleau on France 2, where she played a sexy cabaret dancer. An opportunity that delighted the one who admits to having “always passionate about cinema” from his earliest childhood, watching with his mother “Egyptian films from the 50s or 60s”, she explains to Tele-Leisure September 2, 2023. More than ten years after her first shoot, Zahia imagines herself lending her features to “an ordinary woman”and thus move away from this sulphurous image of seductress which seems to stick to her skin. “I wish movie producers could imagine me in different roles. I want to be seen like any other woman, like any other actress. But I feel like for a lot of directors , I am a UFO”she regrets“I am a normal woman and I want to be treated like any other woman”she still maintains, ready to make herself ugly “like a chameleon” if the role requires it.
Zahia Dehar: “I no longer believe in love”
The past of the young woman has not always been simple. Excellent student in Algeria, she arrived with her family in France at the age of 10. “We had problems with my family, we found ourselves homeless, and the first two years, we were tossed from house to house. I could not have a stable education and my dream went up in smoke, she remembers. […] I was living a nightmare! It broke my heart at a very young age.” A chaotic situation that will cause him to experience many traumas, like his love life. In 2021, Zahia has indeed lived a destructive story from which she keeps the aftermath. “I met a narcissistic pervert…To this day I still struggle with terrible anxiety. […] It’s been two years of horror!”, she confides, moved. A deep trauma that still prevents him from moving forward today. “It’s been over for a year, but I’m still struggling. […] I can’t flirt with a man, hold his hand or kiss him, she describes. It shocked me so much that now I’m afraid of all men. And I don’t believe in love anymore. I prefer to protect myself. If I had another bad experience, I don’t think I could recover.”