In the episode of Large families: life in XXL broadcast this Friday, February 3, Delphine Colas and her husband Olivier confided in the death of their child at birth. A very painful perinatal bereavement to live.
For three years, the daily life of tribes unlike any other has been revealed in Large families: life in XXL. The good times all together are shown, but also the less good ones. As in all families, participants have to deal with problems that are more or less difficult to manage. This Thursday, February 2, Delphine Colas announced to his subscribers his return to the TF1 show: “We really haven’t spent much this season and the one before either. But well it does not matter, it suits us like that“, she confided before specifying that they would be on the air only”in an episode“. And what an episode…
Delphine Colas moved when speaking of her son: “We are the only two to have seen it“
Delphine Colas is the head of a blended family of five children. Selena and Gabriel were born from a previous union. Paul, Louise and Alba are the fruits of her love with Olivier. In this episode broadcast this Friday, February 3, they discuss together the perinatal mourning they experienced after losing Alba’s twin brother at birth. “It’s hard for the people around to understand that the baby, whether it was carried, whether it was in the arms or not, well, it existed“, confides the father of the family. “He only existed for Olivier and me. We are the only two to have seen it and to have held it in our arms, but it existed“, adds his wife, who is still very moved, telling her personal story. The emotion is too strong for Delphine Colas who asks her husband to speak for her: “I take myself back. Go ahead carry on“. He too struggles thinking back to their sixth child to whom they had to say goodbye.
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“People projected, they liked him, they talked to him, they touched his belly“
The couple explains that in addition to having had “room“ready for him in their house, the little boy also had a “first name“, namely, Victor: “People projected, they liked him, they talked to him, they touched his belly“. If they agree today to return to their history, it is so that perinatal mourning is no longer taboo. “Women should not be ashamed to say they have suffered. No matter what stories I feel like telling people, feel free to tell moms about their babies, use the baby’s first name“, she confides.
