Now a juror of “The Voice Kids”, Lara Fabian is returning to the media coverage she experienced at the end of the 90s. At that time, her song Je t’aime had propelled her to the rank of star in France, but also to the foreigner. However, his musical successes had been accompanied by drastic and dangerous life discipline, particularly regarding his weight.
Lara Fabian in recent years has regained the media coverage it enjoyed in France at the end of the 1990s. The Belgian singer appears notably in The Voice Kids (after having occupied the jury seat of the adult version) and will make an appearance in the next season of the Star Academy on TF1.
The interpreter of I love yourecognizable for his voice of incredible powercan pride itself on being one of the biggest record sellers French-speaking with no less than 12 million albums sold. But fame made the fifty-year-old pay a painful ransom. If today his state of health has clearly stabilized, as she adopted a new lifestylethis wasn’t really the case in the late 90s, when his concerts were back to back. The question of his weight obsessed him.
Lara Fabian only ate one apple a week
His 1997 tour may have been the high point of his immense career with “concerts all over the world”as she tells the Quebec magazine Chatelaineit also marks the beginning of his health problems. Her financial partners then demanded that the singer more closely resemble the beauty standards of the time, where the cult of thinness was the norm. So the Belgian promises herself, she will lose weight. Continually. To the point of damaging his health. “One evening, after a show, she vomited in the toilets of a chic restaurant in New York. Seven years of struggle with anorexia followed” can we read in the Quebec press.
Her friend Masayo Hashimoto confirms, explaining that Lara Fabian hardly ate anymore at one time. “It went up to 47-48 kilos. I hid, I was only one face with two eyes” told the main interested party on Canadian television in 2013. Some weeks, the artist only ate “an apple cut into seven quarters for each day”.
Two events will signal the end of this period of eating disorder. In 2010, his body sent him an important signal: Lara Fabian breaks two vertebrae. Then, in 2012, the meeting with her future husband, Giorgio’s magical Gabriel, allows him to slowly climb back up the slope. 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 have accepted both the faults and the fragilities. Of course, I am not a model, I do not have 1m80 legs. But, as I get older, I have the impression of having reaped the best of what I could become. I accept myself as I am, with my imperfections. she confided to Quebec television. Enough to return to success but this time with complete peace of mind.
