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Jean-Claude Van Damme

is a man of extraordinary talents, some of whom have infuriated his vast fan base to delirium.

One of the most notable, according to his own confession, is his ability to

crack nuts with his buttocks

- a variant of what, with boastfulness, Camilo José Cela claimed he could do with that same part of the body and a basin of water.

And it is that, from training them so much, the Belgian actor more than buttocks what he has are two blocks of marble with meat texture.

However, beyond that and his legendary flying kick, Van Damme has never caused greater amazement than with

his ability to

spread his

legs

: few things more epic have been seen than his advertisement for Volvo of 2013, in which he displayed his Lower limbs in a perfect straight line and balanced between two moving trucks while Enya's song 'Only time' played in the background.

This October 18, the actor turns 60, and we do not know if his elasticity remains the same.

You shouldn't have lost it: if you train daily and practice yoga, there should be little difference between your muscles and a strawberry gum.

In his latest appearances Van Damme has emerged with a bright complexion and tan skin, muscular and fit, committed to a work ethic as ironclad as that of

Arnold Schwarzenegger (73 years) and Sylvester Stallone (74)

, the parents of the genre. film of the lonely vigilante of which he was, at the end of the 80s, the great world star, in tough competition with

his arch-enemy Steven Seagal.

Van Damme's life could be divided into four main stages.

The central one is that of his displacement to the United States, in 1982, pursuing the dream of cinema.

Before, in the first, he had been a young talent of martial arts in Belgium - European champion of team karate, later a specialist in 'Muay Thai', the 'Thai full-contact' - and it was thanks to his agility , flexibility and accuracy in the movements as he got his first important role in the industry of the B action series, first with

'Bloody Contact' (1988) and then with 'Kickboxer'

-there he marked another miraculous leg opening-, thus until becoming a popular star with the first installment of the saga

'Universal Soldier' ​​(1992)

.

Before that he made a living as a limousine driver and pizza delivery man;

as one producer put it, luckily he knew how to kick, because he would never have gotten a role because of his dialogue skills.

For years, Van Damme

was a new Chuck Norris

, a martial arts specialist capable of holding the gaze of Eastern masters.

But his third stage came from 1995, in which he experienced a personal decline probably due to the puncture at the box office of his strongest bet, 'Street Fighter'.

It took him 13 years to recover: without success at the box office, reduced to a joke, was when he

got hooked on cocaine

.

Van Damme explained that

he spent $ 10,000 a week, the equivalent of 10 grams consumed per day.

He did not regain his pulse in 2008 with an independent film, 'JCVD', in which he played himself in an ironic way: Van Damme himself was involved in a critical situation that demanded a ruthless vigilante, and he did not stop Be more than an actor in decline.

He knew how to laugh at himself and from there a renewed tide of sympathies rose that has led him to his fourth vital moment, in which he

has starred in a 'reality show' about his life and has even become an involuntary guru of self-help.

This is surely the most unexpected aspect of this new Van Damme obsessed with health -the body is your temple, etc.-, the positive initiative and the motivating message, which has led him to

carve supposedly lapidary phrases in the style of Paulo Coelho

, grass of the 'memes' on the internet -especially in the French-speaking world- and that he spreads whenever he can, of the type "a cookie has no soul, and is nothing more than a cookie, but before that there were milk and eggs; it is in the eggs where the essence of life is ".

Since 2012, a statue of him has stood in the center of Brussels, and that is why it can say, like the title of Richard Matheson's novel, that of "I am a legend."

The love of her life: two weddings and two divorces

Van Damme's worst moment coincided with his divorce in 1992 from Gladys Portugues, a former bodybuilder whom he always points to as the love of his life, and with whom he had his first two children, Kris and Bianca, currently two fans, like his father, of martial arts.

He had been married twice before - juvenile marriages, without conviction - and he did so for the fourth time in 1993 to Cynthia Derderian, a Hawaiian model whom he cheated on while pregnant with his third child, Nicholas, and from whom he separated for a year. then.

The fleeting lover of JCVD ​​was the singer Kylie Minogue, with whom he coincided in the filming of 'Street Fighter'.

After hitting rock bottom, he verified that he had to set a good example for his young son, he disengaged himself from 'coca' and insisted on Portugues to give him a second chance.

They remarried in 1999, and although there was another threat of divorce in 2015 - she had the papers ready - the matter was redirected: today they are a united couple that compensates for their differences with sincere affection.

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