We are used to seeing her as a couple on the arm of Kad Merad, her partner since 2016. The actor had fallen in love with Julia Vignali when he saw her on television, in the show The Kindergarten House... and ended up seeing all his dreams come true. But he is not the only man in the life of the host. She has a 15-year-old son, named Luigi, whom she had with a screenwriter named Julien, whom she married in 2012 and left in 2014.
I tell myself that I would like to relive that
It is precisely for the 20 years of The Kindergarten House than Julia Vignali agreed to say more, on France 2, about her one and only childbirth. A moment she describes as “the best experience” of his life… but which was not all rosy. “I gave birth on a Sunday in December, it was very cold, and often when I pass in front of the Saint-Antoine hospital on a Sunday, I say to myself, well, I’ll give birth well, she jokes. To redo this experience of childbirth which, with hindsight, was not great. At the time I didn’t understand that it wasn’t great, I thought everyone gave birth in seventeen hours with instruments. Afterwards I understood that we could do otherwise. And I tell myself that I would like to relive that.“
I took hours and hours to give birth
Julia Vignali gave birth to Luigi 15 years ago but she will never forget this mixture of joy, pain and incomprehension. With experience, the companion of Kad Merad would prepare differently, as she confirmed to Maïtena Biraben. “I think I would prepare my delivery, she confessed. I will not ask for the epidural from the first contraction because suddenly, I took hours and hours to give birth. I will ask the midwife not to climb on my stomach, even if she thought she was doing well at the time, certainly. And then I would have walked, too, during my delivery. JI remained with the four irons apart for seventeen hours!“