He started on TV almost by chance, he acted in Chiquititas and now he dedicates himself fully to his true passion.

“Everything, everything, everything, is yours if you want. With a smile, look how easy it is”. Those verses belong to one of the most memorable songs of little ones, which knew how to reverse itself over the years and impact different generations. Some watched the program from home and others had the opportunity to be part of the phenomenon that marked a before and after in Argentine television. one of them was Michelle Meeus who, at only 8 years old, was in the original cast in 1995. For her, it was all a game, not a job. However, she acknowledged that for a long time it was a taboo subject of which he did not speak. in dialogue with THE NATIONshe remembered her time in the program, her beginnings in advertising when she was very little and How did he manage to become friends with fame?. In addition, she talked about his present in the world of music.

Michelle’s story in the media began almost by chance. For 45 years her father had a well-known children’s hairdresser in Palermo, where several celebrities and show business personalities attended. One afternoon, a producer saw her and her life changed forever. She was just a three-month-old baby when she appeared on the cover of the magazine. Lap and almost accidentally, he began his career in the world of modeling, advertising and television.

“For me it was a game, everyone treated you well and you ate delicious things”Meeus assured THE NATION. According to what they told her, her house was revolutionized because she was “the baby with the lid.” Shortly after she was called by an agency and she received the proposal for the first of her many commercials: “I was terribly lucky, I went to castings and was. If I go now, I won’t stay, but at that moment obviously there was something that caught on”.

In 1994, Michelle had a dream opportunity: a casting for a special of the Children’s Day of play with me (Telephone). “he did it to me Chris Morena, and I remember that when I saw her I was a little self-conscious, “he commented. Together with other children, she had to dance “Jealous slimy”, one of the hits of the program. She thought that she would not get selected, but she was wrong. without knowing it yet, that participation was the springboard to take the great leap of his career.

“To belong to the medium, it was convenient for you to do all the castings and then you saw what closed you the most”, explained. At that time, she opened a call for a children’s program and, after several audition stages and studying all the characters in the script, she received the most anticipated message: confirmation that she was selected for a strip. What was she? Nothing more and nothing less than little ones of 1995, the first season of one of the biggest hits on national television.

“For me it was one more job, we had no idea of ​​what was coming or the sacrifice that a daily strip implied with eight yearshe mused. To this day, she wonders how she did to learn the lyrics of her character, who also had the same name as hers. She said that she took a couple of theater classes before entering the program, and she believes that this helped her to understand the dynamics of work a little better.

Michelle was excited and excited about everything around her and assured that what the fans felt when watching the program at home was ultimately the same as what she lived. She shared cast with Agustina Cherri, Gabriel Corrado Y Romina Yan, of whom he has a very latent memory. “I recorded my last scene with her and I had the opportunity to give her a hug. It was very emotional. It was very simple, very low profile. That was how she was seen on TV, angelic, honest and sweet to talk to you.”

Not all that glitters is gold. Although the strip Chris Morena it was a real success, it also demanded responsibility, effort and sacrifice. With the passage of time, the children, who were just taking their first steps in that world, began to really understand what television was about, with its lights and shadows. “Being so young and being exposed was the reason why I withdrew from the programMeeus remarked.

The pace demanded by the program was not compatible in his case with the responsibilities of the school. “My mom noticed me distracted, tired. They gave me directives inside the channel and it was hard for me to follow them. It was not easy and there was always the premise that TV came by chance because It wasn’t something I was looking for, nor what I dreamed of all my life. In my house they said ‘you’re a girl and this is a game. When you grow up, if you like it, you will know what steps to follow, but we’re not going to alter your childhood for a TV show’”.

Although it was a great experience for her, she also revealed that suffered health problems in that period that took her to consult with a specialist. They told her that she had “a galloping stress” and they even asked him if they were going through an important moment in the family. Her mother’s response was “we are in the middle of recording a novel.” The final decision of her parents was that will not continue in the program.

After little ones his career continued for a while longer in the media. He was in brother is a brotherbeside William Francella and participated in wings, power and passionwith Paola Krum Y Gustavo Bermudez. When he finished high school, studied English teacher and revealed that to this day for many it is “Miss Michelle”. However, she never completely distanced herself from the cameras and alternated the hours she spent in the classroom with acting.

Although she was convinced that she wanted to be an actress and even acknowledged that at some point she wanted to get closer to the medium again, music began to get into his life and he discovered that this was his true passion. At 15 she began singing with her brother and, at the insistence of her family, they formed a duet that is already 22 years old.

Today Michelle is 37. She is the mother of Benicio, 15 months old, and a year ago she married the father of her child. In addition, she continues as a singer and model and has a project with her family and her friends in the area of ​​aesthetics. Beyond the fact that she loves everything that she lives, she acknowledged that “sometimes it is complicated because it is trying to merge three things that have nothing to do with it.”

More than 25 years have passed since Michelle said goodbye to little ones and, although it was a personal decision, he recognized that until recently It was an “almost taboo” topic for her: “I didn’t have a good time at school.. It was difficult for me to tell that facet freely and be accepted. She was very outgoing and sometimes it was better to be in another tune”.

Along the same lines, the singer added: “When you stand out in something or have something different, you attract attention. If it’s cute, they say ‘how nice!’ or ‘not good’. Without judging, I think that when she arrived at school I was a phenomenon and everyone did the same as me”. In this sense, he says that he did not have a good experience with boys his age and that made him want nothing to do with the fame that the strip gave him.

Until recently, she was convinced her parents made the right decision in keeping her away from the cameras, but as she got older, that changed. “’What a pity!‘, I thought. To have continued, today would serve as a tool. I have the belief that, if I had continued, I would have done a lot of thingsbecause for me the character was good and, in addition, he had a good reception from the public ”.

These emotions were born after she opened an Instagram account in May 2022 to share her work as an actress, singer, and model. There she met several of her former colleagues and they remembered anecdotes from the program. But, this decision was not taken lightly, since for years she avoided him at all costs. “I treated him in therapy and I said ‘let’s cut this, it’s something in my life, there’s no reason to hide it'”. Although he acknowledged that at times he regretted, he assured that in the end it is negotiated because “there was a price to pay.”

After a lot of work, talking about it, understanding it and accepting it, he admitted that he was able to heal that part of his life and become friends with it. He today he shares material on the networks of her proud of her of her achievements, of her motherhood and her projects. Although the “what would have happened if…” is still latent somewhere, art prevailed and today lives on its true passion: singing.