Marianne James opens up about her weight loss

Follower of bodypositive and self-acceptance, it is not uncommon for Marianne James to confide, without taboo, on the eating disorders she had when she was younger. After revealing that she was “little anorexic, from baby”the singer was Faustine Bollaert’s guest on her show It starts today from Tuesday, August 30, 2022. Entitled Bodypositive: What if we loved each other?, this one brought together several women who decided to accept themselves as they are, and this, by not paying attention to the remarks made on their physique. Victim of grossophobia, Marianne James, she decided to confront images of her younger and to evoke in the emission of France 2 her physical evolution. “We will see that you have gone through all the stages, all the weights and the phases of acceptance”detailed Faustine Bollaert in the preamble.

We then discover Marianne James, a child, who crunches life to the fullest and who launches into music as a teenager, where she then begins to “oscillate between weight gain and weight loss“. Thus, the voice-over of the video unveiled in the program underlines that“she controls her cravings and displays a rather slender figure”. Eventually, the artist will end up “let go” definitely and “assume its curves”. “The photos where you are thinner are not the most smiling”, wanted to underline the host of the show. What Marianne James did not deny, explaining how, at the time, she did everything to stay thin. “I starved myself to be like this. The control I had of my body was so intense, so exclusive and so day-to-day, that it’s been two years that I haven’t hugged anyone and no one has.”she confided.

Marianne James assumes

A “body that was so hard to obtain that it had not even become sacred” specified the singer, who underlines today “the difficulty” what it was for her. “Afterwards, there were diets to always stay within the norm, but they no longer worked after a while”she explained, she who is now in tune with herself and fully accepts her weight. “I am 1.80 meters tall and I weigh 130 kilos. You have to live with it. But my kilos make me sing like never before”she had confided a few months ago in an interview, where she had also specified that once, a role had passed under her nose, because she was “too thin” to embody it!