Mathilde Seigner assumes it and shouts it from the rooftops: she is cash, says things when she thinks them and even more, when she feels them. This great horse riding enthusiast, lawyer in the mini-series such a long night (broadcast on TF1), has always claimed to feel things rather than intellectualize them … and this was particularly the case with her son Louis, 14, the fruit of her love with Matthieu Petit and whom she gave birth to at 39.
Rather cash and sincere, the sister of Emmanuelle Seigner assumes perfectly not to have, as others could tell, felt the immediate maternal instinct. In an interview at Psychologies Magazine, she explained that for her, “motherhood is really not spontaneous. It seems obvious to have children. Me, it fascinates me to have made a child. Even if it’s trivial, it’s really hard.”
Describing motherhood as “a lifelong anxiety contract“, she added that “This poses a lot of problems, raises a lot of anxieties. I tell the truth. We are afraid of everything. We are afraid that they will die. We are afraid of dying and leaving them all alone… I didn’t bathe him. I said to Matthieu: ‘Go ahead. I’m going to knock him down…’ I was afraid to kill him, I was afraid of everything.”
Fears of a young mother that did not stop right away: ” I was like, ‘At least he’s not too ugly.’ From the moment he started talking, I found it interesting. But before, frankly… But I didn’t have any baby blues, I didn’t have a complicated pregnancy. Just a concrete, sensible reflection, saying to myself: ‘It’s not nothing.'”
Rather strict on education, she explained at the time that her son respected very specific schedules and rules. No whims, no late bedtimes, no question of taking yourself for an adult! Today, we imagine that things have changed for the teenager in the small family that was created quite quickly. In the same interview, Mathilde Seigner indeed explained that “fifteen days after his meeting with Matthieu [Petit, son compagnon, ndlr], [elle] was pregnant!”