Jean Claude Van Damme – The Truth Biography (Then and Now)
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He is known as an actor, director, screenwriter, musician, choreographer and sex symbol. He is a friend of President Vladimir Putin and his friend Ramzan Kadyrov. He dances beautifully and is crazy about Beethoven, who is not a dog but German composer. He is one of the few living people awarded the monument during his lifetime. He fought on the screen countless times, but remembered not for his fights, but for his bright dance – do you remember “Kickboxer”?
Regardless of your answer, let us introduce “The Muscles from Brussels” as they call inimitable and unfading Jean-Claude Van Damme! A staid Catholic 59 years old (he was born on October 18, 1960) weighs 180 pounds with a height of 5 feet 10 inches – here they are, the ideal proportions of a real star!
Future celebrity, an idol of teenagers loving martial arts and the man of dreams of many thousands of women was born in Berchem-Saint-Agathe, the suburb of Belgian capital and received at birth the lush name Jean-Claude Camille François van Varenberg. However, a child was sickly and ugly, and if we add to this a strong short-sightedness and cowardice, let’s wonder – how did he had become what he became?
Even his family understood that such a boy could not live in such a way. After one outrageous case, when Jean-Claude, who attend the third form, was beaten with two first-graders, his father, a quiet and law-abiding flower shop owner, resolutely took the offspring by the hand and took him to the karate section. Then Jean-Claude was ten, and at that moment his life divided itself into two parts – gray “before” and bright “after”, that lasts until now.
Yes, he shines on the rings of the Old World – until 1979, he had 48 matches, of which he won 44, but he has been sued twice. Yes, at the age of 18 he became a European champion, won the title of “Mr. Belgium” among bodybuilding amateurs and got a black belt in his favorite karate, so there was nowhere else to grow.
However, here Fortune looked on Van Damme. First, in 1986 at a party at Norris’s, he met Gladys Portuges, the USA champion on bodybuilding, and secondly, he was invited to the crew of the famous “Predator”. Alas, Jean-Claude’s quarrelsome character that developed later in bipolar disorder, led to a conflict, after which the main role was given to Kevin Peter Hall.
And the second coming to cinema world seemed successful – in the same 1986 Van Damme appears in the cult thriller “No Retreat, No Surrender”.
One of them was Menachem Golan, and Van Damme starred in the very “Bloodsport” soon, which made him a real star and brought the production company to the leaders.
Next “Kickboxer”, “Death Warrant”, “Double Impact”, “Universal Soldier”, “Hard Target” and many more films were, and in which unusual for the American audience Jean-Claude showed his signature stretch and twisted his signature kick in full rotation.
The first sign was the decreasing in relations with his wife. At that time, Van Damme, who registered a relationship with Gladys in 1987, had already had two children – Christopher Julian, aka Chris Van Damme, who was born on May, 20 of the same year, and Bianca, which his wife gave Jean-Claude on his 29th birthday.
After the final Jean-Claude’s return to his wife he recovered professionally. Several years of rehabilitation, of persistent struggle with mental illness and patient recovery passed, and Jean-Claude produces pseudo-biopic “JCVD” that earned the praise of critics and allowed to claim, “Van Damme returns!”
All this could not have happened if it were not for the love and understanding of his wife, with whom Jean-Claude happy in a chic even by the LA standards mansion worth 3.5 million dollars. The Van Dammes is doing well: their children are healthy (by the way, they flashed in several films that their father shot), and the Bank account allows them not to doubt about tomorrow and even the day after tomorrow – the current state of actor is estimated at about 30 million dollars. In any case, they can buy one of the 375 exclusive hybrids “McLaren P-1” which costs more than a million dollars, and a rare “Ford Mustang Shelby”.
However, the most important thing is Jean-Claude Van Damme is still in demand. There are several movies with him in production, he is invited to the jury of various festivals, and his charitable work earned him the deserved love of animal defenders. He’s almost sixty, but he still weighs his 180 pounds, and his blue eyes still emit the soft light attracting viewers in the era of “Bloodsport” and “Hard Target.”
OK, this is all, but only for today. Even if after watching this video you just do not hit us with a foot turn like Jean-Claude, our channel will be grateful. Nevertheless, generally, we would like to like likes: after all, we try to please our viewers, and promise to strive for perfection in the future.