Caroline Receveur was among the guests of Quelle époque! this Saturday March 23. The opportunity for the influencer to look back on the way in which she chose to announce her cancer to her 5-year-old son, Marlon.
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After months of fighting “aggressive” breast cancer, Caroline Receveur announced last January that she was in remission. “I was talking with Doctor Wissam, and he told me something that no one had ever told me officially. I am cancer free. And even if I knew it, hearing it is totally different,” could we read in a message revealed by her husband Hugo Philip. If the influencer kept away from the media for a long time, she finally chose to speak openly on the set of Quelle époque!, this Saturday, March 23, and thus had the opportunity to return to the way in which she had chosen to reveal her cancer to her son Marlon, born from her love affair with her partner.
Caroline Receveur: her words that allowed her to announce her cancer to her son
Asked about how she chose to reveal her cancer to her son, Caroline Receveur explained that she told him with “simple words”. “He felt quite quickly that something was happening because I was having discussions with Hugo. But when I felt that it was annoying him not to understand, I didn’t even ask myself the question of knowing how I was going to tell him, it happened very naturally,” she declared on the set of Quelle époque!. After making him understand that she would be tired, the former TV columnist said she explained to her son her desire to shave her hair. “I took him to Pinterest to show him lots of photos of young women with shaved hair (…) I prepared him to see me with shaved hair,” she concluded.
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Caroline Receveur: “I explained it to him in simple words”
Before testifying on Léa Salamé’s show, Caroline Receveur had already returned to the way in which she had announced her cancer to her son in the podcast Canapé Six Places by Lena Situations. “I told him quite quickly. I didn’t use the word ‘cancer’, ‘disease’, ‘death’ or anything. I explained it to him in simple words,” she recalled. to the famous YouTuber. “He heard discussions…. I felt that he was annoyed at not understanding. And so one day, while relaxing, I said to him: ‘Listen Pims, mom, she has a little lump in her breast, there, she I’m going to have a little box installed like that, the doctors put medicine in it and the little ball, presto, we eliminate it. And then mom is completely healthy. The only thing is that she’s going to lose her hair'”. A very difficult moment for the young mother…
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