Charlotte Gainsbourg, “good luck” with her children? “I didn’t know how to do it well.”

Charlotte Gainsbourg Although she is an ultra-booked actress, she has always tried to be there for her three children, Ben, 26 years old, Alice, 21 years old, and Jo, 12 years old. But as for many parents, the adolescence of the two eldest children was a difficult period for the actress, who confided without filter to 7 Days TVthis April 8.

Charlotte Gainsbourg: what she “did not know how to do well” with her children

The 52-year-old actress had difficulty managing the transition to adolescence of her two eldest children, Ben and Alice. “It is indeed very complicated. There is an immense bond when they are children, and I find adolescence difficult to manage: how do I know how to withdraw when they become teenagers? This is not obvious“, she confided.

Does she think she has completed the challenge? “I don’t think I knew how to do it well. But I don’t know, moreover, if we know how to do it well. I obviously questioned myself a lot. It is true that I had a particular adolescence, to which I cannot refer. Each time it was different, and really not without errors“, detailed the daughter of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin.

Charlotte Gainsbourg, “good luck” with her children?

Today, Yvan Attal’s partner regrets “to have been, not a good fool, but very blind, naive.” “And it’s a little easy to be naive“, she added. Today, that era is over for his two eldest children. Ben Attal also got married in July 2023 to Jordane Crantelle, 12 years older than him. As for Alice , Attal, she lived for years in New York before settling back in France.

But Charlotte Gainsbourg still has to go through adolescence with her youngest, Alice, 12 years old: “It’s not over for me“. We therefore wish him courage!

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Yvan Attal: a secret to making their relationship last?

Despite all the difficulties she has endured, Charlotte Gainsbourg has always counted on the support of her life partner, Yvan Attal, with whom she has been in a relationship since 1991. But do they have a secret of longevity to make their love last? for so many years?

“Precisely, it’s not knowing. Everything can collapse overnight. We must understand the fragility of the couple. We are not safe, even if we think we have found our soul mate.” she confided to 7 Days TV before specifying: “With Yvan, for example, we moved a lot. We needed it. We had a long life without children. I think we reinvented ourselves, without making any effort“.