"I have become more comely" : Faustine Bollaert talks about her change of look in recent years

Host of It starts today for almost six years, Faustine Bollaert admits that the show has had a great impact on her life and on herself.

If she is one of the favorite hosts of the French, it is not for nothing: every afternoon, viewers discover Faustine Bollaert moved, amused, frightened or bewildered by the story of her guests from whom she collects the testimony, often poignant, in her program which has become essential It starts today on France 2. Since 2017, the former columnist of Michel Drucker in Can’t wait for Sunday met with undeniable success. But Faustine Bollaert has never hidden it: this role that she holds in this program has changed her a lot and has had a concrete influence in his life. This is what she recounted in detail in TV 7 days which she is headlining this week.

“The show made me feel secure… and weakened”

“The success of the show made me feel secure, she also made me deeply good. I gained a form of confidence, serenity, because I really feel in my place. And paradoxically, it also made me weakened. I can’t hear all these testimonies without it having an impact on me at some point. I feel more worried about life, in general.” Faustine Bollaert had also revealed that the show had created more pronounced mom anxieties: “This show often makes me worried about my children, because I often deal with subjects such as teenage suicide, school bullying. These are themes that can create anxiety in me.” About the last Halloween, Faustine Bollaert said: “If some parents seemed calm, I was not. I’m always afraid that they will have a bad encounter. I may have become a much more worried mother.”

A physical change too

This is also why the host explained that it was more difficult to shoot programs revolving around subjects concerning children: “I dread all the programs which deal with children, with the disease of the little ones, with the murders of children, with suffering. There, I have a lot of trouble. I often take it head on.” However, its role in It starts today does not only have moral consequences for the facilitator. Much appreciated for her choice of outfits that she regularly shares on Instagram, Faustine Bollaert admitted: “Physically, yes, I changed. At 18, 19, I was more incisive, provocative. With the show, I changed my haircut, my clothes, my look… I became more pleasant, I found my bubble of comfort. And I think that shows, on screen and in my life.”