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Now a judge on “The Voice Kids“, Lara Fabian is returning to the media coverage she received in the late 90s At that time, her song Je t’aime had propelled her to stardom in France, but also for the foreigner. However, his musical success was accompanied by an incredibly dangerous lifestyle, especially in relation to his weight.
Lara Fabian weighed 47 kilos: “I was just one face and two eyes”
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In recent years, Lara Fabian has returned to the media coverage she enjoyed in France in the late 1990s. The Belgian singer is featured in particular The Children’s Voice (after occupying the jury seat of the adult version) and will make an appearance in the next season of it Academy of the stars on TF1.
Interpreter of i love yourecognizable by his voice of incredible power possible, proud to be one of the biggest record sellers French spoken and no less than 12 million albums sold. But fame made the fifty-year-old pay a painful ransom. If it is clear that her state of health has stabilized today, although she has adopted a new lifestyle, this was not really the case in the late 90s, when her concerts continued. The question of his weight obsessed him.
Lara Fabian only ate one apple a week
His 1997 tour may have been the highlight of his massive career with “concerts around the world”as she tells Quebec magazine Kathleenit also starts his health problems. Her financial partners then demanded that the singer resemble more closely the beauty standards of the time, where the thinness cult was the norm. So the Belgian promises herself, she will lose weight. Continuously. To the point of harming his health. “One evening, after a show, she vomited in the toilets of a chic restaurant in New York after seven years of struggling with anorexia.” can we read in the Quebec press.
Her friend Masayo Hashimoto confirms, explaining that Lara Fabian barely ate anymore at one time. “He went up to 47-48 kilos. said the main interested party on Canadian television in 2013. Some weeks, the artist ate only “an apple cut into seven quarters a day”.
Two events will signal the end of this eating disorder period. In 2010, his body sent him an important signal: Lara Fabian breaks two vertebrae. Then, in 2012, when she met her future husband, the magician Gabriel di Giorgio, let her go back slowly on the road. According to her friend Masayo Hashimoto, it was this meeting that finally healed her. From now on, Lara Fabian has made peace with her body. “I’ve accepted both the flaws and the vulnerabilities. Of course, I’m not a model, I don’t have 1m80 legs. But, as I get older, I realize that I’ve made the most of what I I could have. accept myself as I am, with my imperfections. she confided in Quebec television. Enough to return to success but this time with complete peace of mind.