Married since 2018 to Ghislain Gerin, Christophe Beaugrand became a father for the first time in 2019 of a little boy named Valentin, born from a surrogacy. At the time, this news earned him numerous violent and homophobic messages. Although he considered withdrawing from social networks, he ultimately decided not to do anything about it so as not to prove his detractors right. This Tuesday, June 4, the host of Secret Story was a guest on the show We’re Redoing TV on RTL. On this occasion, he returned to the threats and violent messages he recently received concerning his use of surrogacy, four years after the birth of his son.
“The stylist Jacquemus, who published a photo of the birth of his two children, was attacked very violently and I had the misfortune of speaking out to support him. And there, I became a target again,” he said, adding: “I’m called a monster, a slaver, a child thief, a pedophile, and I’ll spare you the most vile things”. Messages of unparalleled violence, but which have the merit of pushing the journalist to defend his life, his family, and more broadly, the rights of LGBTQIA+ people: “Me, it makes me want, even more, to speak out to try to […] honor homoparental families and simply that we are respected in the same way as all other families. »
Christophe Beaugrand (@Tof_Beaugrand) suffered very violent homophobic attacks, particularly regarding his use of surrogacy. He confides in “On Refait La Télé” with @JadeRTL And @E_Dussart 📺 pic.twitter.com/1cQWm27x8c
— RTL France (@RTLFrance) June 4, 2024
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Christophe Beaugrand shows his claws: “Our families are normal”
This is not the first time that Christophe Beaugrand has spoken out to talk about his use of surrogacy or to defend same-sex parent families. In an interview with Konbini, broadcast on social networks in April 2024, he and his companion had notably decided to return to their journey, strewn with pitfalls, which led them to fatherhood. Their objective ? Deconstructing prejudices about same-sex parenthood and GPA. They also agreed to answer the question that defenders of the “traditional family” often ask: what about the female figure? Will their little Valentin grow up without a female reference? “I think we don’t live in a cave, only with men. He has his two grandmothers and we chose two godmothers”explained Ghislain. “We speak […] to show everyone that finally our families are normaleven if I don’t really like this adjective »continued and concluded Christophe Beaugrand.
Article written in collaboration with 6Médias.
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