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Kepergian pembawa acara No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain di usia 61 tahun Jum’at lalu (8/6), ikut meninggalkan rasa penasaran akan sosok Ariane Bourdain (11), putri semata wayang dari pernikahan dengan mantan istri kedua-nya Ottavia Busia (52).
Bourdain sebelumnya pernah menikah dengan Nancy Putkoski di tahun 1985 - 2005. Ia lalu menikahi Busia di bulan April 2006, dan dikaruniai seorang putri pada tahun berikutnya. Setelah menikah selama hampir satu dekade, keduanya sepakat berpisah dan tetap berteman akrab hingga Bourdain berpulang. Bourdain diperkenalkan kepada Busia oleh Eric Ripert, sahabat keduanya yang juga diberitakan sebagai orang pertama yang menemukan jasad Bourdain.
Di beberapa kesempatan, Bourdain kerap menyiratkan jika ia seolah tidak percaya diberi kesempatan menjadi ayah di usia lanjut. Rasa cinta Bourdain akan Ariane sering terlihat dalam laman media sosialnya, ataupun ia ungkapkan di beberapa hasil wawancara seperti yang dirangkum femina berikut ini. (f)
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“I’m sure my wife has a different view on this,
but if I could go back to the diaper-changing, wake-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-to-soothe-crying-baby phase of fatherhood? I’d be overjoyed.”
Appetites: A Cookbook
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“Fatherhood has been an enormous relief, as I am now genetically, instinctually compelled to care more about someone other than myself.
I like being a father.
No, I love being a father. Everything about it.”
Appetites: A Cookbook
“While I feel strongly that to try and make a small child into one’s own image as a pint-size ‘foodie’ would be at best annoying and at worst a form of child abuse, I am secretly proud when she reaches for a hunk of salty Pecorino, a caper, or an anchovy, as she is apt to do on visits with my wife’s family in Italy.
I admit to shamelessly praising her when she, to our surprise, became enamored with oysters on the half shell.”
— via Bon Appétit
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“My sole duty as a parent and as a father, particularly raising a little girl who is going to grow up to be a young woman, is that she will never look to men for affirmation, or anyone else for affirmation or self-worth or be physically intimidated by anyone. My daughter spinning arm bars is a thing of envy — Ronda Rousey quality.”
— via mom.me
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“I became a father at fifty years of age. That’s late, I know. But for me, it was just right.
At no point previously had I been old enough, settled enough, or mature enough for this, the biggest and most important of jobs: the love and care of another human being.”
Appetites: A Cookbook
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“I also do feel I have things to live for. There have been times, honestly, in my life that I figured, ‘I’ve had a good run — why not just do this stupid thing, this selfish thing … jump off a cliff into water of indeterminate depth.’ [Before my daughter I would] “go to places where I was, frankly, asking for trouble.
It was a daredevil move. In retrospect, I don’t know that I would do that today — now that I’m a dad or reasonably happy.”
— via PEOPLE
