Trudeau’s ex says she learned to ‘not cling too much’ after separation with prime minister

Trudeau, 49, has focused on her own personal growth instead of Justin Trudeau’s political career as she works as a “yoga and meditation teacher.” The two have three children: Xavier James, 17, Ella-Grace, 15, and Hadrien, 10.

She and Justin Trudeau continue to talk: “I have to say we are really lucky to be in a respectful open communication which is key.” She says she no longer believes that “marriage is success, separation is failure, divorce is failure”.

“And the guilt that we carry, that if we don’t keep that identity that we are clinging to, that we fail. But when we feel this way, not only do we show emotional immaturity, but we leave a traumatic emotional legacy to kids who should not have to wear this,” she told The Telegraph.

In addition to the yoga and meditation sessions Sophie Trudeau is a huge advocate of ensuring sound mental health and is behind the Living Room podcast where she talks with mental health experts about positive living. She told The Telegraph that she never saw herself as the first lady of Canada.

“I’ve been Sophie all along, and I never believed that I was a first lady. I’ve lived my life as me, and I adapted to different situations,” she said. “I started as a reporter before I met my husband. And I was a mental health advocate before I met him.”

Sophie Trudeau’s memoir, Closer Together, is not just an autobiography but a fairly intimate look into how she battled an eating disorder while in school. She said it was very difficult for her to discuss bulimia because she feared what the public’s reaction might be. “I had come out in Quebec to share my story about my own eating disorders, which was a risk because nobody was really talking about eating disorders,” she said. “I didn’t know what was going to happen the next day.”

Many have suggested that Trudeau get into politics and she appeared at some political events beside Justin Trudeau, though they were largely non-partisan in nature. She is making no commitment either way today.

“I believe you can be in service to fellow human beings in many different ways,” she said. “And politics is not the only way. As I said I will be serving in my own way. There’s no yes or no. I will continue to serve in the best way that I can. There are many ways to serve.”

Justin Trudeau has always denied speculation that his marriage ended because of his infidelity. Sophie Trudeau has enigmatically described their marriage as one that has gone through “hardship.”

Justin Trudeau has been prime minister for over nine years and seems clearly destined to resign as prime minister as many in his own caucus have said it’s time for him to go, with one recent poll pegging the Liberal Party 22 percentage points behind the Conservative Party of Canada and tied for second place with the NDP. His father, Pierre Trudeau, was prime minister for 15 years between 1968 and 1984.

But Sophie Trudeau does not want her children to feel like they are being coerced in the same direction as their father and grandfather.

“I don’t think about that at all,” she said, adding that she does not think about whether their children will “follow in his footsteps. I kind of think the opposite of that. I think as parents we have to celebrate the authentic nature of our kids and try not to put the pressure on them that the world already puts [on them], whether you are children of political figures or not.”