Just before Natacha Harlequin (50) takes her last breath, she wants someone to put a pepper chip in her mouth. “And not from Lay’s, but from Croky. That’s saltier.”
Natacha Harlequin can’t cook, but she loves food. And not necessarily food that is very healthy. Chicken with skin, Surinamese food full of carbohydrates, everything goes in it. And so are chips. “Pepper chips are mine guilty pleasure. I make a big turn around the chips shelf in the supermarket,” she explains in the Weekend.
Team Croky
When it comes to pepper chips, Natacha has a specific preference. “When it comes to paprika chips, there is team Croky and team Lay’s. I’m team Croky, because that’s saltier. I really like salt.”
According to the investigative journalist of the Weekend, it does contain extra E621, or monosodium glutamate, ‘which keeps you eating’. Natacha: “It’s all wrong. All E numbers, everything is included. But I think if I die, I’ll want someone to put a chip in my mouth, it’s that bad, haha!”
Chips in the box
The Weekend interviewer is completely shocked by it. “So a bag of Croky paprika chips will go in your coffin?”
Natacha: “Yes, certainly. With my highlighters and eyeliner. But not now. I am doing very well and have been doing so for a long time. I make healthy choices. I’m now going to 1,500 calories and then 1,350. That’s a lot per day for me. It’s going very slowly, that’s what I also tell my dietician. But she says, ‘Things are going the right way with you,’ so I’m sticking to that.”
Women’s Health
There are still quite a few kilos to lose, says Natacha. “When I’m on the screen on Shownieuws, I look 100 kilos heavier! So ungrateful, working in front of the cameras. That’s really true. I think that’s a bad thing and I’m now going to lose six kilos, I’m having a bad time exercising!”
She concludes: “I actually think I should be on a cover too. All those men now have their washboards on Men’s Health. I want to be on Women’s Health. Why haven’t they asked a 50-year-old woman who wants to lose ten kilos, but doesn’t know how to eat? Haha!”