She has only just signed her HAVO diploma when Jennifer breaks through as Sam de Graaf in west wind. It kicks off her career, but in the podcast, the actress says it was pretty crazy to be known ‘suddenly’. “That was very strange, bizarre,” she admits. “I also thought it was very strange to just go back to Gouda at the weekend. Then we would go out, go out and drink beer. And I was devastated, because I had had a whole working week while everyone had studied. “
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Soon the lice motherstar that her new life is difficult to combine with her old one. “I often had to play on Saturdays, so I couldn’t be there on Friday evenings. And suddenly I was working with all adults, in an adult world. So I noticed that there was a kind of separation.” Especially if she gets into a relationship with opponent Daan Schuurmans and starts living together in Amsterdam. “Then all at once your whole life is suddenly different, you are recognized on the street,” she continues. “I had very much lost my foundation. I lost my grip.”
In the end, Jennifer decides to stop acting. She explains: “west wind was also taken over, so Johan Nijenhuis left and another executive product arrived. He also suddenly wanted Sam de Graaf to become a whore and I thought that was all very intense and didn’t want that. I missed Johan very much there. John was real west wind.“
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In addition, Jennifer increasingly feels that she is being lived and breaks after a long working day during a mandatory photo shoot for the television-guide. “I was really, really up and said, ‘I can’t do this anymore. I don’t want this anymore'”, she reveals. “Then I left there crying, but I felt very proud that I had said ‘no’ and finally had some control over my own life again. (…) I am very proud of that.”
In the end, the actress decides to stop acting altogether. “I was really overstrained. I don’t know if I had a burnout, but I was really overstrained,” she says about that period. “I went to work crying. I even hid myself once. That they yelled, but I just thought: ‘I can’t anymore, I don’t want anymore.’ I was just overworked.”
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