A new album, My blooda first role in the cinema (Pretty, pretty), a tour which is announced soon throughout France… Clara Luciani is leading her career at 100 miles per hour. A success that has not been denied since its revelation six years ago, with the tube Grenada. Privately, the 32-year-old singer has just given birth, in 2024, to her first child, a boy she had with her British companion, Alex Karanos, leader of the group Franz Ferdinand. But by her own admission, the native of Martigues did not like being pregnant… “Frankly no! I didn’t have a complicated pregnancy but there were things that weren’t very sexy or very accommodating, like heartburn, compression stockings… I really had it all!”, she confided in an interview with GalaThursday January 9, 2025.
Clara Luciani didn’t want to “lie” about her pregnancy
Followed by more than 640,000 subscribers on Instagram, Clara Luciani has shared photos of her rounded belly on a few occasions. While wanting to remain honest about her experience with her pregnancy. “I don’t want to lie. On social networks, we are bombarded with photos of very well-brushed pregnant women, who touch their bellies all day long. In my songs, I wanted to say that it’s not always easy to be pregnant, and I think that’s understandable. I was afraid that this album would be a little watered down, like ‘Do, do, the child do’, and I decided. found in a more dynamic rough, more rock and I’m happy with it”, she again replied to our colleagues. Being pregnant also gave her the opportunity to explore her familial and emotional ties to her own mother. “The love I began to feel for my child when I was pregnant allowed me to understand the level of love my mother had for me,” she had already explained to TV 7 daysin November 2024.
Clara Luciani’s secrets about her “physically trying” pregnancy
In a relationship since 2020 with rocker Alex Kapranos, Clara Luciani learned of her pregnancy in January 2022, at the end of her previous tour. A happy event which did not prevent her from completing her series of concerts and writing her latest album, although not without some fatigue. “Becoming pregnant was very beautiful, but also very trying, physically and mentally. […] It moved me. I was exhausted, but I wanted to give my audience the energy they expected from me.” she assured in the columns of Mthe magazine of Mondein October 2024.
