Laure Manaudou celebrates her 35th birthday. Her relationship with Jérémy Frérot, the stolen photos affair, her victories and defeats and her taste for cooking and reality TV … Secrets of the favorite swimmer of the French.
Laure Manaudou celebrates its 35th anniversary this October 9, 2021! With no less than 127 medals, including 86 gold, the famous swimmer is undoubtedly one of our national pride. If it is now his brother Florent Manaudou who takes over, since she retired, the sportswoman remains one of the favorite personalities of the French.
Smiling and authentic, Laure Manaudou has nevertheless gone through many tribulations, the disclosure of her private photos ole-ole to his abortion, through his dismissal in 2007 … Return on the vicissitudes of the life of the queen of the basins.
Laure Manaudou grew up in a family of sportsmen
Laure Manaudou was born in Villeurbanne, in 1986. She is the daughter of Jean-Luc Manaudou, bank employee, player and handball coach, and D’Olga Schippers, of Dutch origin, badminton player. In this family of athletes, the taste for competition is practically hereditary. From the age of 4, Laure Manaudou assiduously frequents the pools, since her parents enroll her in swimming. She has two brothers, Nicolas and Florent, both swimmers as well.
The man who noticed her
This is the coach Philippe Lucas who quickly realizes Laure Manaudou’s potential as champion. When she was a teenager, he convinced her parents to let her live in his coaching home, in Melun, to coach her. When she comes of age, she moved into an apartment near the Melun swimming pool.
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Children and married life
In 2010, Laure Manaudou became the mother of Manon, born from her former love with the swimming champion Frédérick Bousquet, Since the beginning of 2015, the sportswoman has been swimming in happiness with the singer Jérémy Frérot, whom she married on May 12, 2018 in the Landes. They are parents of two boys, aged 4 years and 10 months.
Laure Manaudou left everything for love
In May 2007, while Laure Manaudou was already a recognized swimmer and medalist in France, she decided to exile in Italy to pursue his career there, where his companion at the time resides, Luca Marin. “Between Italy and France, I choose Luca, the love of my life“she said according to The world.
She was fired
At the end of 2007, after having decided to try the Italian adventure, Laure Manaudou is licensed from the Turin club because of tensions with his trainer Paolo I think.
The case of naked photos
2007 is definitely a complicated year for Laure Manaudou. While she is in a relationship with the French back designer Benjamin Stasiulis, screenshots from a private video, where she appears naked, are disseminated on the Internet.
His ex-companion Luca Marin, is initially suspected, but he quickly denies being responsible. It was only years later, when the sportswoman’s book was released, co-written with journalist Marion Festraëts Between the lines, that Laure Manaudou reveals that these photos were taken and leaked by Pierre Henri, his companion at the time.
Laure Manaudou was “embarrassed” by her husband Jérémy Frérot
Quite discreet about his private life, the swimmer is not the type to confide in her sexuality. However, in its title I want you, released a few months ago, Jeremy Frérot evokes her sex life. But what did Laure Manaudou think? “She liked it a lot … then she said to herself that it was going to be sung everywhere. She felt a little embarrassed but she accepted it, telling me that it was very good to talk about it“, assured Jérémy Frérot in Leisure TV.
The day she announced her retirement
She announces her sports retreat January 30, 2013 live from the show The Grand Journal on Canal +. It was also during this program that she announced that she was pregnant with her second child! A day definitely rich in emotions …
Laure Manaudou lifted the veil on her abortion
But in March 2013, Laure Manaudou announces in a press release that she had to abort after four months of pregnancy, for medical reasons. “When I lost my baby, I thought to myself, this is the life, this is the destin. I lived it badly, but I did not depression“she confided to Gala.
Laure Manaudou won The Best Pastry Chef …
In 2019, she participated in season 4 of Best Pastry Chef dedicated to the stars on M6 … and wins the competition!
… But lost in Mask Singer
In 2020, she participates in Season 2 of Mask Singer on TF1, hidden under the costume of the Wolf. But the ex-swimmer is the first eliminated of the season. You can’t win every time …
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