There are times in her life when Francis van Broekhuizen still thinks she is normal, says the opera singer and TV personality in Party. “Someone who is just like everyone else.”
In addition to her opera career, Francis van Broekhuizen has also become active in the media over the years. She has taken part in various TV shows and now feels like a big star. And of course big stars don’t mix with the normal rabble in the sauna. But Francis does…
‘Just like everyone else’
Francis sometimes thinks that she is just like normal people, she indicates in the Party. “I still think I’m just Francis, someone who’s just like everyone else.”
Um, Francis thinks so? Isn’t that just how it is? Then who should she be? The supreme goddess of the opera houses? No. She is indeed just ‘just like everyone else’. “I notice that this is not the case for others in the sauna because sometimes someone says to me: ‘I like you so much.’”
Little joke
What does Francis say to those people? “I always make a little joke of it by replying: ‘Now you know all my secrets.’ Previously I never dared to go to the sauna, because I was very prudish and you have to be naked anyway.”
Why did she go overboard? “It was Jacqueline who said at one point: ‘Shall we go to the sauna anyway, because it’s so good.’ She gave me all kinds of reasons to go, such as that the sauna is good for your muscles and that it is a nice day out.”
Celebrities in sauna
All in all, as Francis you can go to the sauna as a celebrity. “Usually you walk around with your bathrobe on. They generally leave you alone too, you know. The sauna is an audience that does not bother everyone all day long.”
Francis who sometimes thinks she’s still ‘just like everyone else’. How ordinary she has remained…