Claudia de Breij has had a tough year, because she turned fifty in March and that has done a lot for her mentally. How does she look back on her life? “I was never a hottie.”
There was a big party in Claudia de Breij’s living room at the beginning of the year, because she turned 50 years old. A nice milestone, but it did not really make the comedian herself happy. In fact, she suffered a lot mentally and emotionally from that birthday. The realization that she is more than halfway through has had a lasting impact.
Claudia struggles
Claudia initially thought that talk about turning 50 was all nonsense, but now she knows all too well what that is about. “That was quite a thing, yes. My wife Jessica is two years older than me, and she also had that struggle when she turned fifty, because there is a lot that will no longer happen for the first time,” she says in The Telegraph.
She continues: “I was able to respond to this very rationally at the time: ‘That’s because there is less in front of you, but look next to and behind you, there you see all the people with whom you have built something up over the years.”
Shit feeling
And then Claudia had to believe it herself. “Yes, then I turned fifty myself and I also had to get through that shitty feeling. You have to face the fact that being young is really over. You really have to say goodbye to that, and that is not fun.”
She continues: “But I advise everyone who turns fifty to celebrate it in a big way, if possible. I did that too and then you see how lucky you are. And what nice people you have around you. And in the end, fifty turns out to be a lot of fun.”
Nice woman
It helps that she has never been a ‘hot chick’, Claudia continues. “I notice that at this age I can do much more of what I think is really important. And that I care less about what other people think about me. Yes, your body changes, but I also find it funny to see what it turns out to be.”
“It may be that when I was young I was never portrayed as the hot, young woman. I always relied on what I came up with, my jokes and my songs.”
‘So bad!’
Claudia thinks that’s little comfort for less attractive people. “People didn’t think: here comes Claudia with her big tits.”
“I do have friends who say: ‘I think it’s so bad that they no longer look out for me on the street.’ That doesn’t bother me, because I feel like I’ve never been that person.”