Mimie Mathy was a huge success thanks to the series Joséphine, guardian angel, which brought it to the fore in 1997. And this popularity has never waned since the series is still broadcast regularly. Thus, she has now become the third favorite personality of the French! News that had delighted him when the standings were released: "This recognition, which still surprises me as much, is wonderful. Look where I'm from. Considering my size, it was not a given!", she estimated. Indeed, the actress had struggled with her physical particularity because, before her, there was no actor of small size who is really known and appreciated, as she explained on Sunday February 21, 2021, in the Portrait of the week by Audrey Crespo-Mara in Seven to eight, broadcast on TF1. "It was synonymous with something reductive, without any pun … The dwarf, until I got into unpretentious cinema, was a deceitful, mean, cruel … It wasn't a pretty word, and it didn't mean a pretty picture. Me, I tried to embellish the image …", explained the one who recently had back surgery.
Mimie Mathy does not want "to create a sect"
The actress has also returned to many aspects of her life, such as her health, her success, but also her marriage to Benoist Gérard. Indeed, the 63-year-old actress has always refused to live with a small person like her: "Often times I see small people coming, putting themselves in the front row, who say hi, that is a horror! I tell them ‘Stop coming in groups, do not marry each other, you will only have little ones!’ VSIt's interesting to mix, let's not make a microcosm, which will make you become a cult!", she launched. Mimie Mathy also spoke of the fear she had of having a child "like her" : "There's a one in four chance he'll be like me, that's a risk. At 45, there is also the risk of waiting for the decisive ultrasound after 4 months and saying to yourself: what am I doing? Would I have been as strong as my parents were? I do not know…", she confided in front of the journalist. But the actress is still a happy grandmother, since her husband indeed had four children from a previous union, themselves become parents.
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