10 things you didn't know about Sylvie Meis
I used to rush to the cigar shop every Wednesday to buy the new Grazia and especially to read Sylvie's column (I assume she wrote it herself). I eagerly read her weekly diary: photoshoots on the left, new lingerie line on the right, Raf here, Raf there, decorating her house for Christmas, wedding in Italy, glass of champagne, new hair, fresh purchases. Her life was too beautiful to be true. And I really knew that sometimes a tear was shed or there was an off day, but that of course wasn't written down. Sylvie, you are still an incredibly beautiful person to me, I have never caught you in a fashion mistake, I would love to confiscate the entire contents of your closet (preferably in a larger size) and I have greatly empathized with you over the past time. Bar and boos, it sometimes seemed to me.
It has been very quiet around Sylvie for a long time, but now she is back. And how. More beautiful than ever on the cover of Vogue. And she is opening up. A few things we didn't know about Sylvie. Here it comes:
Always hated it when she was referred to as a ‘footballer's wife’ in the magazines. ‘How can they say that, I have presented to millions of people, I have died a thousand deaths.”
She has completed VWO.
Sometimes she finds it hard to see herself on TV.
Never ever would she fall for a footballer again. Sylvie found it hard to cope with the life of a footballer. “On training camps, it is determined what time you have to go to bed, what you eat for breakfast, when you can and cannot talk. You are put on a bus and driven from here to there. As if you can't think for yourself.”
Sylvie has cried in bed many times before the fateful night on New Year's Eve because she didn't know how to move on.
Regrets not being more open with the press. “I should have provided clarity much sooner.”
It seems as if Sylvie's whole life has been directed. She does like control, but doesn't plan all her PR moments.
Sylvie had an eating disorder during her high school years.
She regrets the T-shirt ‘Bitch’ that she wore after Sabia spoke badly about her.
Damian has been sleeping in bed with Sylvie since the divorce.
