Leïla Slimani

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749 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud · Leïla Slimani · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

I don't really have the answer.

He makes me think of Gatsby, because he was a man without a past, which is really, really weird in a country like Morocco.

In Morocco, you always define yourself first by...

belonging to a clan.

When you meet someone, usually the first question this person is going to ask you is, what's the name of your father?

Or what's the name of your mother?

Who is your family?

And my father, he had a family, but he would never talk about his family.

And he had no relationship with them.

And he was completely like he reinvented himself and

And it was very subversive, I think, this gesture.

And he was very generous also towards us because he said to us, OK, now you will go to France and don't look back.

I don't want you to be sad.

I don't want you to think about us.

I don't want you to feel guilty.

I want you to be free.

And I will not tell you who you are.

I will not tell you as a woman or as a Moroccan you have to do this or that.

go and invent yourself, find who you are day by day.

And at that time, I thought it was very violent because when you're young, that's not what you want.

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