As a child, growing up in poverty shows in so many little things for which there is no money, says De Rycke. Among other things, the fact that I have never had birthday parties at his house. “Our house was not very clean. So people never came to us.
Especially when he started high school, living in poverty made things more difficult for him. “In secondary school you are judged more on how you look, like your clothes. And the older I got, the worse it got.”
During the last years of high school he studied photography, “but I didn’t even have the money to buy the equipment to follow that direction well”. She dropped out of school early.
