In the show It starts todaybroadcast this Tuesday, August 30 on France 2, Marianne Jameswho recently confided in the subject of cosmetic surgery, agreed to speak without filter about her weight in this issue called Bodypositive: What if we loved each other?
It all starts when Faustine Bollaert evokes the physical evolution and in particular the weight of the singer. “You have entrusted us with personal photos, we have reassembled the film of your life and we will see that you have gone through all the stages, all the weights and the phases of acceptance“, declares the host. The video immediately paints the portrait of a greedy and good-natured child, who embarks on music in adolescence, when she “swings between weight gain and weight loss“. His voice, initially fragile, gains power.”It must be said that at the time, in the world of jazz and lyric, having a chest was essential” adds the voice-over by adding in parallel an extract from a performance of “his idol“Ella Fitzgerald.
I took no one in my arms
“She nevertheless controls her desires and displays a rather slender figure“, can also be heard, as images of the thin singer appear on the screen. Finally, later, “she lets go” definitively “taken and assumes itself with its curves”. A video which sums up her career and her physical evolution according to her. “The photos where you are thinner are not the most smiling“, notes Faustine Bollaert in order to launch Marianne James, eliminated during the launch of the fourth season of Mask Singer on TF1.
“I starved myself to be like that. The control I had of my body was so intense, so exclusive, and so day-to-day, that it’s been two years since I’ve hugged anyone and no one has. It’s a body that was so hard to get that it didn’t even become…“, confides the 60-year-old singer. “Sacred ? “, intervenes Faustine Bollaert. “Yes, that’s it, holy. It was hard. Afterwards, there were diets to always stay within the norm, but they no longer worked after a while”, complete the interpreter of In your pupils, today very much in tune with his weight.
On May 29, she told on TikTok the day she was the target of a grossophobic attack in the capital. Obviously deplorable actions … Fortunately, the singer can boast of having a mind of steel!