At 90, Christiane Martel has finally put her extraordinary life on the page. Her self-titled memoir, released this year, traces a path that explores the deprivations of wartime France to a Miss Universe crown, taking her through the soundstages of Hollywood and into six decades at the center of Mexican political life. It is, by her own account, a story she alone could tell.
“I write because it’s my story. It was a life of so many moments — I still have much more to tell,” she said in an interview with EL PAÍS.
A childhood shaped by war
Born Christiane Magnani, Martel’s earliest years unfolded in the shadow of the Second World War. Her family…
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