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The singer is releasing her new album soon Gospel & Soul. The opportunity for her, in an interview given to Isabelle Ithurburu in “50'Inside”, to take stock of her private life, her love story with her new companion and her relationship with motherhood.
More than twenty years later Between us who revealed it to the general public, Chimene Badi remains one of the most beautiful voices of French song. She releases her new album, Gospel & Soulon November 18 and is, on this occasion, the portrait of the week by Isabelle Ithurburu in “50'Inside” this Saturday, November 9.
And if the singer has never hidden her faults and her complexes, she now seems at peace. “There have been ups, there have been downs. There were times when it was absolutely crazy with incredible joys that I didn’t necessarily manage to fully experience”she declared, looking positively at her journey while adding: “I was young and a little lost in the middle of it all.”
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Chimène Badi also pointed out the mentality of the time. “We paid a lot of attention to the physical aspect and so I didn't expect all that. […] I had a lot of criticism regarding my figure, regarding my skin”she declared while putting things into perspective. “That’s how it is. It's definitely heartbreaking and there was a moment when I looked in the mirror I felt like I was absolutely filthy but I know I have a super beautiful heart.” Several years have passed since this difficult period for the singer, and after celebrating her 42nd birthday, she feels “in better shape than ever”. “I am completely in tune with myself. I feel much better at 42 than at 22.” And if according to her, the most important thing is to take care of yourself, she also admitted that she thrives in her life as a woman by being in love.
“Nothing is set in stone”
“I'm very lucky because I have an absolutely wonderful partner. Generous but in every sense of the word. And above all, it's a real shoulder. It's complicated, with the jobs we do, to finally find the right person. The one who is there for the right reasons. I feel like I wasn't wrong this time. […] We both know where we are, what we’ve been through.” And this new relationship seems to bring him a different outlook in many ways. Starting with his relationship and his non-desire for a child.
In 2019, the singer wanted to break a stubborn taboo around motherhood. Approaching forty at the time, she had loudly stated that she did not want to be a mother. “Things change in life. Nothing is set in stone,” she said five years later to Isabelle Ithuburu. “I don’t know what the future holds for me. I don't know how things will unfold in the years to come. But my opinion, which was so clear-cut as to make it into a song, is no longer necessarily so. And it gives me pleasure to tell you that.”
And her love story with her new companion is no stranger to this change of heart. “I think love can change a lot of things and the person you are with can make you see things differently. So, on to the next episode […] So, you should never say never. So yes I announced that I would never have children but no maybe not in the end”she quipped.
