Lara Fabian opens up about the eating disorder that ruined her early years

With I am hererecently released, Lara Fabian signs the album of resilience, in collaboration with artists like Vianney or Slimane. The singer indeed addresses certain issues such as bulimia. Eating disorders are a subject that she knows well, having suffered from them in her youth.

The coach of The Voice Kids had also confided on France Inter a few days ago how she had come to eat one apple per week, cut into seven pieces for each day of the week. In 8:30 p.m. SundayLaurent Delahousse returned to this revelation and past “bulimia” problems.

“A long thread of black pearls”

“I suffered from a complex eating disorder, it wasn’t just bulimia, it was a little heavier,” replied the 54-year-old Belgian-Canadian singer. “It belongs to a long thread of black pearls that I have strung throughout my life with bad encounters and also a way of receiving love in childhood which was a language that I could not manage to understand. to feel. » The one who declaims I love you loud and clear in song, she had difficulty feeling loved, even if she qualifies: “All parents love their children, but sometimes are they really equipped to pass it on, in the way that is the clearest for us? I am one of those people who, even if they have been loved, have sometimes had difficulty understanding how they are loved. »

Thirty years of career for Lara Fabian

Fortunately, expression through singing is his salvation. As a child, Lara Fabian did not realize that she had “something extra”. It will take her eight years to assimilate that she has a talent, going so far as to believe that when her grandmother cries while listening to her sing, “it's because she is sad”. “Something is happening at that moment,” explains the woman who “catchs the ball” and understands “that we can communicate through voice.”

The result is a thirty-year career. And songs like A flower in the mouthwhere she “tells the journey of this indescribable incomprehension, which transforms into an eating disorder and which nevertheless becomes a magnificent liberation over time”.