The opportunity was ideal. Omar Sy and his wife Hélène have always made it a point of honor to lead a family life far from the cameras. Moreover, to offer a “calm and quiet” life to their five children, the couple chose to settle down in Los Angeles in 2012. But on Tuesday March 5, the wife of the Caesarized actor wanted to share some memories of Tidiane, his son, as he blows out his eighteenth candle.
“My sweet boy Tidiane is 18 years old today”, she wrote on her Instagram account to caption a carousel of photographs taken over the years. And to continue: “An extraordinary son from day one, growing up to be an extraordinary man. Happy birthday my Tij.”
The first image shows a tender moment of complicity between mother and son, who look into each other’s eyes. We can also observe the young man shirtless, cap on his head and ball in his hand… although he is only a few years old, and he is wearing a diaper under his jogging pants. The following photos show him sometimes with his brothers and sisters, sometimes with his father. Enough to offer a 100% nostalgia moment to the approximately 128,000 followers of the woman who married Omar Sy in 2007 at Tremblay-sur-Mauldre.
The star chose anonymity
Although they have lived across the Atlantic for twelve years, the Sy family does not seem to regret their choice in any way. Indeed, the tranquility that Uncle Sam’s country offers him is priceless for the former sidekick of Fred Testot, who believes that his “notoriety is gentler there”. This is evidenced by the confidences made by the actor to Psychology Magazine in December 2022. “I went from Omar and Fred [Testot, ndlr] to Omar Sy. I asked myself what I could do with this new status.”asked the one who played Driss in the film Untouchables (directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano in 2011). “I needed to protect my kids. To protect myself. So, I put some distance“, he also explained in the columns of the monthly. Omar Sy took this decision above all so that his children would grow up “with an anonymous father”.
Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.
Photo credits: Europa Press / Bestimage