Please note that the action movies are already displayed, but they are not included in the muscular image, and there are no images. Thick glasses, a frail figure, and an unexpected passion for classical ballet… Who could have guessed that this shy boy would one day shine in Hollywood?
Jean-Claude Van Damme: the child no one would have suspected
In the 1960s, Jean-Claude Van Damme was in Brussels and not part of the action movies. As a puny child, often ill, he was an easy target for ridicule and bullying. His glasses with their very thick lenses did not help his already fragile appearance. Yet it was precisely in this fragility that the starting point of an extraordinary destiny lay.
