Caroline Receveur was born in Épinal in the department of Vosges, the second child of Jacky Receveur, a former soccer player at the FC Metz in the 1970s. As a child, she dreamt of becoming a model and passed her first castings at the age of 14. She studied at the Claude Gelléehigh school in Épinal and after obtaining at 17 a baccalauréat littéraire, she was allowed by her parents to leave the family household. She moved to Paris, where she signed a few months later a contract with the modeling agencyRoxane. However, her shootings do not allow her to have a home in the capital. To earn money, she worked as a waitress in a nightclub in Metz while continuing to travel in Paris for modeling contracts. However, her height finally does not allow her vocation of becoming a model.
Television career
In June 2008, she participated at the second season of Secret Story broadcast on TF1, her secret being that she and another contestant, Nicolas, were in couple. She was eliminated after two weeks, after having been nominated while revealing her secret. In 2010, she made her return on television and still in reality, participating at several programs broadcast on NRJ 12. She was featured on the fourth season of La Maison du bluff and the second season of Les Anges de la télé-réalité. In 2012, she became one of the main actresses of the scripted realityHollywood Girls where she shares the celebrity with other personalities issued of reality programs. In 2013, she manages the second season of La Maison du bluff. She left Hollywood Girls in 2014 after three seasons. In January of that year, she started co-hosting Le Mag and left the programin September to focus on other personal projects. In 2016, she was a contestant at the seventh season of Danse avec les stars, where she has Maxime Dereymez as a coach and partner. She stated during her participation, that she wanted to pay homage to her father who died a few months earlier. She was eliminated at the seventh episode on 26 November 2016.
Parallel activities
In addition to her television appearances, she created Wandertea, a brand of detox products with tea and natural plants, in association with the pharmacist and herbalist Julien Duschene. She has also created and held a blog where she gives fashion advice. She continues to increase her notoriety on the social networks, where she posts several pictures putting her on scene. In August 2015, she reached one million of followers on Instagram, an event she celebrated by posting on her account a picture of her wearing a bra.
Personal life
Caroline Receveur is the second of three children. She has an older brother named Benjamin and a younger sister named Mathilde. She has the birthdate of her parents, her brother and her sister tattooed inside her left arm. During the Mister France contest in February 2011, in which she was a member of the jury, she met the model Valentin Lucas, with whom she began a relationship in January 2012. In January 2015, they moved together to London, but separated in November 2016 after almost five years of dating. In 2013, she announced that several years before, her father was victim of a stroke. She announced on 29 May 2016 through the social networks that her father had died. She has been dating French model Hugo Philip since December 2016. They have a son together named Marlon.
