Marlène Schiappa suffered a miscarriage two weeks before the recording of an intimate ambition

Guest of An Intimate Ambition Sunday, November 7, Marlène Schiappa confided as rarely to Karine Le Marchand, revealing to have been the victim of a miscarriage a few weeks before the shooting of the M6 show.

She breaks a taboo. Member of the government since 2017, Marlène Schiappa wears the “great cause of the five-year term” Emmanuel Macron, gender equality, when she became Secretary of State for Equality between Women and Men and the Fight against Discrimination. Criticized, mocked, she has in particular since her appointment been the subject of sexist remarks, which relate more to her physical appearance than her positions, she who has always assumed to be a mother of two little girls while being a minister. A role not always obvious, she who deplores the lack of empathy in the world of politics, which has long kept her to herself a drama she had to go through recently: a miscarriage.

In An intimate ambition, broadcast Sunday, November 7, Karine Le Marchand specifies that the filming of the show with Marlène Schiappa, whose last book was a bitter failure, was delayed for two weeks because of this difficult miscarriage. “What happened, is that I had an early pregnancy, which did not go well and ended in a miscarriage“, thus entrusted the Secretary of State, who reveals to have “ended up saying it because [qu’elle se sentait] really bad “, and had “not the heart to put [son] wake up at 5:30 am to go to morning hours to defend the government’s action “.

Marlène Schiappa supported by Jean Castex after her miscarriage

Realizing to be a woman, a mother, and what’s more, “a human”, Marlène Schiappa ended up confiding in this miscarriage, and reporting it to Jean Castex. “I told the Prime Minister and I was pleasantly surprised because I was so supported“, she admits to Karine Le Marchand, explaining that from there, her working time was arranged, and that she was told to take as long as she wanted to recover. “We don’t dare, we are a little ashamed, and I don’t know why in fact, because there is no shame“, she added about this drama which affects many women, but which still remains a taboo which it is difficult to speak about for some.

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