Leïla Slimani

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

When you're young, you want to belong and you want to have an identity and you want to have like boundaries and to understand in which side you are.

But now that I have the age that I have,

I understand what he meant, and I understand that it was a great gesture of love to be able to prefer the freedom of your children than to have them with you.

And he prepared all his life to let us go away.

And my father couldn't travel.

He didn't have a passport.

So he knew it would be impossible for him to visit us, to come to our wedding or to meet our children unless we would come to Morocco.

So I think it was heartbreaking for him and humiliating also to say to your children, you have to leave your country, my country, to Morocco.

to be happier, but that's what he did.

He preferred our freedom to our roots.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

And when I arrived in France, I was so young.

And it was wonderful because I could do anything.

I was in this big, beautiful city all by myself.

I'm 17 years old.

And, you know, it was Paris, people kissing in the streets, which was so weird for me.

And I mean, French kissing, not just kissing.

You know, in Morocco, people don't show their feelings or their sexuality.

People mask a lot, those kind of things.

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