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… Tennis-Star Genie Bouchard.
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In an interview, Béatrice unpacks about the relationship between the two sisters.
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Was everything still okay there? The sisters shine in 2018.
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“It’s very funny. I know someone in the grocery store better than my twin sister, ”says Béatrice Bouchard.
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I beg your pardon? Béatrice is the six-minute older sister of tennis star Eugenie, known as Genie Bouchard. And she is now unpacking in an interview about her complicated relationship with Genie.
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The two twins grew up with their mother Julie Leclair and father Michel Bouchard, an investment banker, in Montreal. But only until they are 10 years old. Then the story begins to get difficult.
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“Anything but a perfect family”
Beatrice: “We are definitely not a simple, happy, perfect family. Even anything but that. Our parents got divorced, they weren’t happy with each other. Genie was with my mother for most of her life from then on. Myself, our siblings Charlotte and William with my father. So we grew up separately. “
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Family separation creates many problems. There is trench warfare within the structure. Béatrice says: “The situation caused enormous tension. Especially between me, Charlotte, Will and my mother, as well as between Genie and our father. “
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“She is a strange person to me”
The problems within the family continue to this day, explains Béatrice. “It’s still like this today, not at all perfect. Just stop because I’ve only seen her twice a year since we were 10 years old. ” Therefore, people in the supermarket are closer to her than her own twin sister. “It’s crazy. She is almost a stranger to me. “
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People would keep asking her, “Why don’t you just travel the world with her? Why don’t you go to Wimbledon or the French Open with her every year? ” Béatrice: «A: I went to school! And I have a life to live too. And B: Who should have paid for that? Genie didn’t pay for it. And that’s a perfect example. People probably think: go with your sister, she will take you everywhere. No, my sister didn’t take me anywhere. And when I wanted to see her play at Wimbledon, she said: Okay, come and see me play, buy your ticket and come. “
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«I was just ‘the sister’»
The constant comparisons with her sister weigh on Béatrice: «Everyone has compared me with my twin sister all my life. And that’s hard. Let me tell you: this is very difficult! ”
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She was only addressed as “the sister” by everyone. «Imagine that for 20 years. You no longer feel like a person yourself, I was just ‘the sister’. ” You know that this is not meant badly. But it did something to her, to her self-confidence.
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Even if she doesn’t have the perfect relationship with her star twin sister today, Béatrice now seems to have overcome the problems and is at peace with herself. Her sister Genie, currently number 141 in women’s tennis, now lives in Miami, Florida. (wst)
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Published: 01/13/2021, 10:27 a.m.–Related
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