Pictured here, Gigi with the Thierry Gaston
“In the summer of 1958 the nuns sent me to the country home of a very artistic Parisian family to take care of their five year old son, Thierry. If you can imagine - being a young girl that had never been protected, sent out to work from the age of 8, and many bad things had happened along the way, so I was extremely withdrawn, and even though I must have seemed quite strange, the Gastons were the first to treat me like a human being and not a dog. "
The father Phillipe was a
newspaper Editor, the mother Florence was an XXXX and they had a very
cute son Etienne who was exactly one year younger than me. At the
end of Summer I made a terrible scene and told Phillipe and Flo that they had to take me back to Paris with them because if they returned me to the convent I would kill myself.
--Gigi in an interview, Paris Match, May 5, 1967
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