Jacqueline Fuchs, 52, is a bodybuilder of Swiss origin. He is the protagonist of Body Odyssey by Grazia Tricarico, which will be released in theaters on April 11. Fuchs turned to bodybuilding at age 39, after a boxing accident. His body, says Tricarico, “produces a mechanism of attraction and repulsion. But then it takes an abstract, surreal, non-documentary turn. The conflict with the body concerns us all.” The director tells Corriere della Sera that Jacqueline “is a gentle warrior; he tells of her normality and her aesthetic ideal, where harmony is the perfection of volumes. It's a question of “balance between mind and body.” In one scene he shaves like a man because he takes hormones. “Everyone shaves, men and women,” explains Jacqueline.
Hair and menstrual cycle
The bodybuilder says of herself: “I sow discord. Ordinary people see me as an athlete, although in the street they sometimes ask me if I am a man and I smile; then there is the fetish community, fascinated by me. I had skinny boys. Now I'm having an affair with an amateur bodybuilder.” He knows that a bodybuilder loses her hair and skips her menstrual cycle: “It's the risk of any other extreme sport, even the Formula 1 driver risks death. There are rules to respect. I like to push my body to the limits, I have shaped every inch of it.” And she explains that before races she has to make “huge sacrifices, completely giving up eating and sometimes I'm not present to myself. I have the mental coach who rebalances me by giving me stability.”
Up to 80 years old
He says there is an exhibitionist component among bodybuilders: “Not with me, but yes, there is, with weights, many try to hide their flaws. This is my life and I will never change it. But I would like to continue being an actress. Bodybuilding is no different: I also put myself on display.” And he thinks that you can be a bodybuilder until the age of 80: “You just need to know how to manage yourself.” She doesn't like “anything about her body, and I am not a prisoner of it.” Whereas femininity “comes from within and not from outside.” Finally, beauty: it’s “living a healthy life, like mine.”
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