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From Matane to Manhattan … The internationally renowned Quebec model Ève Salvail has not had an ordinary life. In his new biography, Be you and you are beautiful, the muse of Jean-Paul Gaultier looks back on life glamour she led, but also the alcoholism problems that plagued her.
She was the first “model with a shaved head” and it was Jean Paul Gaultier – whom she affectionately calls “my lover” – who propelled her career abroad.
At 49, Ève Salvail decided that the timing was appropriate to launch his biography. A person around her had given her the idea after seeing the lecture she has been giving for a few years.
Called From Matane to Manhattan, this conference talks about failure. The model-turned-DJ tackles her incredible career there, with her many ups, but she does not avoid the downs, including her addiction to alcohol.
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Jean-Paul Gaultier and Ève Salvail.
Audacity of youth
Ève Salvail took advantage of the confinement of recent months to finish writing this book that she wishes to be inspiring. “I would like that to inspire a person, just one, to feel beautiful,” she told the Newspaper.
Having grown up in Matane, raised by adoptive parents with artistic souls, Ève Salvail was not necessarily destined for a glorious international career. It was after participating in the “Clin d’oeil Become a model” competition that she got hooked on this environment.
Because she was young and “not afraid of anything,” she decided to shave her head and get a tattoo on her head. This bold move ultimately paid off. Jean-Paul Gaultier took it under his wing, and we know the rest …
“In 30 seconds, I went from Matane to famous [célèbre], says Eve Salvail on the phone. […] Without Jean-Paul Gaultier, I might have had a great career in Montreal, but it wouldn’t have gone further. I didn’t even know who he was at first (laughs)! “
Soon, in the early years, the young model that she was realized that she liked the spotlight. “I was designed to be on the traineeship, without knowing. “
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Eve Salvail has been working as a DJ for fifteen years.
But as much the fashion world was glamour, as the modeling profession was not easy. “You are in your suitcases all the time,” said Eve Salvail. I could go, three, four or five months and do several countries. “
Because the pressure was great and the temptations were many, she gradually developed an addiction to alcohol. “I think it was still in me, actually,” she said.
Hit rock bottom
Four years ago, on September 19, 2016, she hit rock bottom and decided to put an end to this gnawing problem. “My body couldn’t take it anymore: I had big attacks of tachycardia [le cœur qui bat trop vite] which often woke me up in the middle of the night, ”she recounts in the book.
Sober, happy and in love, Eve Salvail now divides her time between her careers as a DJ and a model. “I am officially retired as a model, but I continue to participate in a few events. I’m lucky to still look good for my age (laughs)! “
► The biography of Eve Salvail, Be you and you are beautiful, will be released on October 28 by Éditions de l’Homme.
Some extracts
Alcoholism:
“I drank in the shower, in my office, in the toilet, in the car, in the woods, anywhere, as long as I was not seen, and I successfully concealed my drunkenness. […] I realized that I had this “disease” of alcoholism on the morning of September 20, 2016, in front of my fireplace, with my face green, my body swollen with alcohol, a cigarette in my hand shaking and my heart pounding. without too much rhythm, with a lot of insufficiency and in fourth gear. “
His coming out:
“I still had a lot of trouble coming to terms with my homosexuality in my twenties. I saw her as a flaw, as an abnormality in my head and my heart. […] It was only years later, around the age of 40, that I abdicated and began to accept myself. Today, I’m proud to be cheerful, but it took a lot of courage and strength to get there. “
A nomadic life:
“For about 20 years, I had to leave my personal things in a warehouse that I rented. I had an apartment in New York, one in Montreal, one in Paris, and I frequented hotels all over the world. […] I had the bare minimum in my suitcase, which was only emptying and filling up every three months. I dreamed of leaving the remote on the living room table and still having it where I left it when I came back six months later! “
