She is the one who has been at the helm of the Star Academy after-party for three years on TF1. Karima Charni made her TV debut on the show in 2004 and has come a long way since then. She confided in the podcast of Tele-Leisure about her beginnings and let's say that the young woman did not go through all the hassle. When she is eliminated from the Star Academy, there is no crossing the desert for the woman who dreamed of being a singer. The offers were numerous and she collaborated with the M6 group, then on NRJ12 and finally became a columnist for LCI, or even Fun Radio. Since this year, we have also found her in the morning show Bonjour! on TF1 as a columnist with Bruce Toussaint.
Difficult beginnings
A Tele-Leisureshe confided that she had not always been sure of herself, in particular because of the lack of representation of women of North African origin in the audiovisual sector. “At the time, I had a huge lack of self-confidence. I compared myself to others all the time. It’s complicated because I had no point of comparison in the profession, with other people”she began by explaining. Then specify: “I am part of the visible minorities as they say, I am North African, I am very, very proud of it, but I had no one when I looked at the environment where I said to myself I want to become like her. I had no one who represented me . I had to learn on my own.”.
Karima Charni faces a harsh reality
If she participated in numerous projects in the 2000s, Karima Charni mentioned “a harsh reality”as our colleagues reported. “In entertainment, you had to be pretty, that you had this little body size 34-36. And for me, my points of comparison were blonde, cute, fine women. And I never found myself super pretty”, she regretted. explains Karima Charni. And to conclude with frankness: “So I was trying to fit in, to be like everyone else, until I realized I was never going to be like them. I tried to smooth myself out, I have no shame in it. say”.
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