Marianne James, a singer with a golden voice, frankness and a humor that kicks ass, is a complete woman who always says what she thinks. Guest on the show 50′ inside on TF1 this Saturday, June 29, the 62-year-old star has talked about his weight and sent a strong message.
In an excerpt posted on Instagram, we can see the juror of France has an unbelievable talent talk about your relationship with your body. Talking about weight has never been taboo for her. She notably confided have been “annoyed“by its weight until the age of 40 or 50, and then letting go to finally accept yourself.
Invited to say a word to people who suffer from being fat or to those who criticize them, Marianne James delivered a powerful message in one go. For her, fat people are heroes and she explains why: “I’m really 50 kilos overweight. Isabelle [Ithurburu, animatrice du programme, ndlr]let’s say that one day, I don’t wish it on you, you’re 50 kilos overweight and they start weighing you down with sandbags and all that… Just to get to the taxi that’s going to take you back to your city when we’re both done. You might not be able to get into the taxi and to go out, your legs will start to shake. You won’t be able to get out of the car. If they tell you, ‘Oh, it’s on the second floor,’ you’ll go up the first floor and then your legs will shake. Right now, I’m exactly twice my weight. I weighed 70 kilos at 20 years old. I carry two whole Marianne. We are heroes but I don’t want a medal for that because if I had the choice, I would have liked to never exceed 100 kilos.“
Marianne James, a slim but unhappy ex
Guest on the show It starts today In 2022, images of Marianne James when she was 20 were released and Faustine Bollaert noticed that it was not in these images that the singer and judge appeared the happiest.
“I starved myself to be like that. The control I had over my body was so intense, so exclusive and so daily, that it was two years where I didn’t hug anyone and no one did it. This is a body that was so hard to obtain that it hadn’t even become…“, confided Marianne James, struggling to find the word to conclude her sentence. “Sacred ?“, the host of France 2 then tried. And the artist continued: “Yes, sacred. It was hard. Afterwards there were diets to always stay within the norm but they no longer worked after a while“. If Marianne James went through complicated stages regarding her weight, she has finally made peace with herself and that is the main thing.
