Vitaa is one of the artists who have managed to combine professional and family life and at 41, the singer seems more fulfilled than ever. “Motherhood has changed a lot of things for me. That is to say, when you are an artist, before building your family life, you are a little self-centered. You’re used to everyone being around you. It all revolves around our career… Me, in my life, really, I signed my first album, I was 22 years old. Everything is dramatic when it works, when it doesn’t, in fact that’s all it is. And then, I built my family life, I met my husband and I took a break”says the one who invited a member of her family on stage to sing in the middle of a concert last year, in an interview with Current womanthis Monday, January 20.
Married to the discreet Hicham Bendaoud since 2010, Slimane’s great friend was lucky enough to have three children. A first boy named Liham, now aged 13, followed by a second boy, Adam, aged 10 and a little Noa, aged 2. “I got pregnant with my first son and it shocked me and I wanted to do just that. For 4 years, I took a real break and each priority is put back in its place and suddenly, you realize that in fact, making music is wonderful, it’s a passion, it’s cool, it’s works, so much the better, it doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter”says Vitaa, who revealed her weight fluctuations and her disorder which can make life hellish in the past, before continuing: “Your child is your priority. Besides that, happiness is built differently so it really took care of a lot of things in me.”
Vitaa bans several social networks from its children
-Despite the happiness of having three healthy children, Vitaa remains aware of the complicated period in which her children will grow up. “We live in a world that is not easy. I have the feeling that they will not have the same childhood as us and that, at the same time they are connected so they grow much faster. This is what scares me the most. At the same time, I really try to spend real time with them, to teach them respect, tolerance, it’s essential, to listen to others and to be in tune with the world in which we live”says the woman who owns a huge house with a soccer field, swimming pool and elevator, before explaining how she does it with her children: “I try to do everything to disconnect them from the screens. It’s very, very hard because they’re teenagers, my older ones (Liham and Adam) but I’m not giving up. I have techniques, I have weeks of punishmentI take everything away and when I discover that, when I take everything away for two days, they go around in circles, from the third day they play games that they have never played, they have fun, they go outside, they play football, they do board games. There I say to myself, in fact, they would be 10 times happier without a screen in their daily lives. Except that teenagers, they all have a phone… It’s very hard! But I really think they absolutely need to be supervised.”
A mother attentive to the excesses of society, Vitaa even goes so far as to ban certain social networks from her children for their own good. “I don’t want them to have TikTok, I don’t want them to have Instagram, I don’t want them to have Twitter. They have Snapchat. It’s very their Snapchat generation. I leave that to them, they communicate, they have groups with their friends”details the artist accused of being a bimbo and struggling in her career some time ago, before concluding: “I am lucky to have children who confide in me a lot (…) I think that, as long as we communicate, we are on the right track.”
