Friday February 10, 2023, Mentissa will attend the 38ᵉ edition of the Victoires de la Musique. As a reminder, the interpreter of “Et bam” is one of the nominees in the category “Feminine Revelation”. A reward would be a nice consecration for the star! It all started in 2021 with the 10ᵉ season of “The Voice”. Listening to her tone of voice, Vianney literally falls under her spell and takes her under his wing. In the music industry, she impresses.
However, the artist often doubted her. In particular the image it sends back. Delicate subject that the singer highlighted in her title “The twenties”: “I released the weight / Which weighed heavy on the heart / Which prevented me from being beautiful / Which prevented me from being me”. His physical appearance has long been the cause of his torment: “I’ve been really hard on myself for quite a long time. I’ve had a lot of issues with how I look at myself, all that stuff you see on social media where it feels like finally that we have to look like a standard guy physically… It ruined my life a lot for a very long time”, she confessed to Yann Barthès.
“I weighed myself every day…”
At worst, Mentissa has sunk into a downward spiral: “I was on diets and all that… I didn’t feel comfortable. It’s very hard when you start your career, you are confronted with the scene, people see you all the time, but that we don’t feel good about ourselves.” In the midst of turmoil, the singer did everything to get rid of her parasitic thoughts… Not without difficulty: “Psychologically, it was getting pretty heavy to bear. I weighed myself every day. I was constantly thinking, ‘I have to be careful, I have to lose weight, I mustn’t gain it.’ I felt that, physically, it was starting to take up too much space, space that I could free up to be happy, fulfilled, to feel good, to give love to myself and to the people I love” .
But all those horrible memories are now behind her: “I’ve come a long way. Writing Libra was a bit of a start for me to say, ‘I’m letting go, I’m finally accepting myself as I am.’ and how sad it is at 23. I said to myself, in 10 years, when I’m 33, I’m going to remember my 20s, and I’m going to say to myself: ‘I’ve spent my whole life, all my youth dieting’, it’s ridiculous”.
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