Emma Watson is not single, she is "in a relationship with herself"
At almost 30 years old, Emma Watson is "happy to be alone". In a filmed interview, broadcast this Tuesday, November 5, the committed actress denounces the social pressures weighing on the shoulders of women who reach their thirties without a husband and without a baby.
If men need Emma Watson (right Harry Potter?), 29-year-old Emma Watson doesn't need men. Today she is single and happy as well, she assures, in an interview granted Tuesday, November 5 to the British edition of Vogue.
"It's taken a long time, but I'm very happy to be alone. I'm in a relationship with myself. I call it being 'self-partner'," she explains.
Social pressure on women in their thirties
Until then, Emma Watson had never believed in this phrase, "alone and happy". It "took her a long time" to feel comfortable and thrive without the couple, says the actress, who will be 30 next April.
Because social pressures weigh on the shoulders of women approaching their thirties. "If you haven't built a house, if you don't have a husband, if you don't have a baby and you're going to be 30, you don't have an incredibly secure and stable place in your home. career (…), or that you are still trying to understand certain things… ”, she lists, to show that all these injunctions pile up and suffocate. Before I let go: "There's just this incredible amount of anxiety."
At 30, there is still this invisible voice telling you that you have to settle down and know what you want.
“No one escapes it. Every age probably has its pressures, she imagines, but at 30, there is still this invisible voice, or thundering according to the relatives we have, which tells you that you have to settle down and know what you are doing. want. ”
A generational question
The one who will remain the eternal Hermione Granger for the Potterheads is not the only artist of her generation to rise up against the stigmata of fairy tales and preach the happiness of a solo life.
Lizzo sings it in Truth Hurts: "I don’t worry about a ring on my finger." Ariana Grande has called the year since her split from Pete Davidson "happy." When the other icon of youth, Selena Gomez, proclaims in song her pleasure to be a "super single" woman.
