She orders a chamomile citing problems to the ” vocal cords “ and encourages us to nibble on the cupcakes placed in front of her. On the eve of the Christmas holidays, it’s not quite time for the aperitif at the Hotel Elysia, a discreet five-star Parisian hotel, located a stone’s throw from the Champs-Elysées. Curled up in a cream sofa, Hapsatou Sy appreciates the elegant living room with comfortable armchairs, a bit impersonal. “It’s a place that I like. He is calm and soothing. I give appointments there, I organize shootings there », details the former columnist of Canal +, stilettos, long black hair. “Contrary to the image I give, I like to be a little isolated”, justifies the one that comes “from a family of eight children where there has always been noise”. On this December afternoon, the place is completely deserted.
A “free” and experienced entrepreneur
This tall and beautiful girl of Senegalese origin of almost 41 years old, who hit the headlines reluctantly when one disastrous day in 2018 Eric Zemmour gave her the nickname of “Corinne”, has all the working girl. While sipping her herbal tea, this seasoned entrepreneur, who manages companies selling beauty and well-being products in France and Senegal, takes the time to outline her projects. She has been self-employed for fifteen years. At 25, she launched her network of beauty salons, an adventure that ended in a resounding bankruptcy in 2013. “I had 100 employees, it was too big for me”, she recalls. Since then, she has (learned) the measure, and reviewed her methods. To sell creams or glosses branded with her name, she created a network of independents, like Tupperware meetings revisited with Instagram sauce. “These are women from precarious backgrounds, who obtain additional income. Some earn 3,000 to 4,000 euros per month, others 50. Entrepreneurship is very important in my life”, she welcomes.
entrepreneurship, which makes it “free”, remains much more his hobby than television. But the virus of the small screen has bitten her. In February, it will launch HapsatouSy TV, his digital channel, especially on YouTube. In the meantime, we can see her hosting a show on RMC Story. This evening, the attentive mother preferred to give up the concert of Ibrahim Maalouf to join in Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine) her two young children of 5 and 2 years old and her companion, the radio host Vincent Cerutti.
” I was lucky. We live in a society where people like me are never told that this kind of adventure is possible.
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