It’s hard to believe when you see him shine on stage, but Slimane hasn’t always felt good about himself. Even today, the young singer sometimes doubts when he looks at himself in the mirror. And if he finds it difficult to accept his image, it is simply because he was traumatized, when he was younger, by certain criticisms aimed at his physical appearance. This is what he said while he was on the show As an asidebroadcast on Canal+ on Tuesday, October 18, 2022.
It’s something that traumatized me
“At the time of The VoiceI was not finished in my headhe confessed to Nathalie Levy. I was 26 years old, I still had too many doubts about myself, too many things to settle for people to suddenly have an opinion on me. I didn’t even know who I was. And this weight thing is something that follows me and will follow me until I think very, very old. It’s something that traumatized me. As a child, it was complicated for me.“As a teenager, Slimane actually suffered from gynecomastia, that is to say a development”too accentuated” of the mammary glands. It is in particular because of this that he lived one of the most humiliating scenes of his youth.
It really played on my relationship of seduction, on love, on the couple
Today, when Slimane takes care of his little Esmeralda, and he has gone through so many hardships with her, all this seems very secondary to him. However, the 33-year-old singer still has a certain emotion in his voice as he remembers the past. “With my long eyelashes and my breast debut, I looked like a girlsays the great friend of Vitaa. I have a memory at the swimming pool, where one day, a tall 20 or 22 year old said to me: ‘But this is not the girls’ locker room here’. And these are things that mark you and which, I believe, manage your relationship with others. I know that it really played on the fact that I became a singer, on my relationship of seduction, on love, on the couple. It played a lot…”