Respect for Wendy

Can you imagine that everything is going terribly in your relationship? All pain points and difficult issues that you would prefer to only discuss with your girlfriends over a cup of tea. But through the grapevine, it gets whispered around and then the press is on the line. Whether everything is okay at home. What’s going on. If you want to talk about it. Because ‘everyone’ is curious. It just seems really terrible to me.

Yesterday Wendy turned 48, and that’s why RTL Boulevard visited her. Olcay Gulsen congratulates her and struggles to ask the question that almost no one dares to ask, but from a journalistic point of view, it must be asked. ‘How are you doing now?’ Wendy responds extraordinarily well. Calm. Convincing. Powerful.

‘We all go through easy and less easy times together. I’ve been in the business for over 25 years, so I’ve really learned how to deal with the outside world. As long as we keep the inner world small – with the kids and with each other – and as long as everything is somewhat clear there, then you try to keep the outside world out of it.’

‘There is also a lot of love,’ she continues. ‘Whatever direction it goes, that will always remain the same.’ And then Olcay goes all the way. Whether it will turn out okay. Wendy had sensed it coming and calmly says: ‘I’m not going to make any statements about that… Well, who knows.‘

And it’s exactly that honesty that makes my respect meter shoot up a hundred notches. Dear Wen, I just want to say that I admire how you handle it. It will be okay. Even if it maybe won’t be.

Image Instagram: Wendy van Dijk & Wendyonlinenl