the shocking confessions of the wife of Marc Lavoine on her miscarriage

In his new book A possible life, to be published on March 2, it tells the story of a 24-year-old young woman, pregnant with twins and miscarried. It is actually her own drama that Line Papin has described in this autofiction. A confirmation that puts an end to many questions about the inspiration of this novel. In this book, her fifth, the wife of Marc Lavoine evokes this miscarriage she suffered in 2020 during the first confinement, followed by a abortion, one year later. A choice that she explained at greater length in an interview with Current wifepublished on Friday 18 February.

“The first termination of pregnancy I suffered was involuntary: I had a miscarriage at two months of pregnancy in 2020 during the first confinement, while I was expecting twins“, she first told the magazine. Before adding: “The second termination of pregnancy was voluntary. I made the decision to abort a year after having a miscarriage“Two events that led her to put her ills on paper.”I explain in the book that I started writing about abortion because I met a guilt inside, silence outside. One was added to the other to conform a form of shame“, detailed the writer.

“The beginning of a questioning that goes towards life”

“Motherhood is so glorified that having fertility problems, miscarrying or having an abortion is considered a failure. While it may be possible to look at things another way“, continued Line Papin, eager to break a taboo, and explaining how important it is to “do not consider miscarriage and abortion as an end in themselves, but as the beginning of a questioning that goes towards life“.

Line Papin then returned more broadly to her choice to terminate her second pregnancy after her miscarriage. “When one has desired a pregnancy that is interrupted, it would seem natural to carry out a second one. But when I got pregnant again a year later, I had the feeling that reality was no longer ready to accommodate my old desires, my dream of motherhood“, she admitted, making it clear that he was now, for her, “become impossible to become a mother” because of “upheavals” and “injuries“lived.”It was technically, biologically possible but humanly impossible“, added the one for whom miscarriage and abortion are equivalent to”a heartbreak“. Regarding her abortion, which she had on March 16, 2021, Line Papin said: “I never thought I would make that choice one day. And having to do it was more than overwhelming (…). You have to be in serenity to hatch a life, and I was not in this serenity.“