She leads several careers while being a mother. You may forget her when you see her at the movies, when she walks the Fashion Weeks all over the world, but Laetitia Casta is a mother of four children. Her 20-year-old daughter Sahteene was born in 2001 from her relationship with Stéphane Sednaoui. She then had Orlando and Athena, 15 and 12, with Stefano Accorsi. And she recently welcomed Azel, on March 17, 2021, the fruit of her love affair with her current husband Louis Garrel.
Laetitia Casta became a relatively young mother, as she exploded in all fields. The French already knew her as a model and then discovered her in the cinema in the film Asterix and Obelix against Caesar, by Claude Zidi. And that is why this pregnancy was frowned upon. “I was 23 when I had my first child, she recalls in the columns of the magazine Telerama. Everyone dissuaded me by saying, ‘You’re in the middle of a career, you can’t be a mother now.’ It is the misfortune of many actresses who did not have children. I am proud in retrospect that I did not give in to this pressure, to have responded to my instincts. We must break these patterns. A woman can do a lot of things at the same time.“
I went straight from childhood to adulthood
Currently showing in the film The crusade and the room Clara Haskil, prelude and fugue, Laetitia Casta must have grown up very quickly. Like the talented Romanian Jewish pianist, she experienced an early separation from her family. “I went directly from childhood to adulthood, without this laboratory that is adolescence, where we experiment, explains the 43-year-old actress. After my first Jean Paul Gaultier show with tattoos and piercings, which made a huge buzz, everything happened very quickly. I was 15 years old.“Beginnings which perhaps pushed her to seek stability, in her own way, as soon as she had the opportunity. And the rest proved, to all the skeptics, that she was right. .
Find the interview with Laetitia Casta in the magazine Télérama, n ° 3756 of January 5, 2022.