Season 3 of Dancing with the stars made an impression. In 2012, Emmanuel Moire and Fauve Hautot won the competition, followed very closely by Amel Bent and Christophe Licata, astonishingly talented. Eliminated at the end of the third bonus, Chimène Badi had also participated in this season of VALLEY on TF1. But the 42-year-old singer doesn't have particularly good memories of it. On the occasion of the release of his new album, Gospel & Soul, voice and soulin which she covers songs by Johnny Hallyday and Amy Winehouse in addition to unreleased tracks, she answered some questions from Here is. She assures that she will never do the dance show again, which she also enjoys. “I just wasn't made for this program, I knew it, but I was pushed to do it. And at the time, I didn't yet have the strength to say no. What I can do today 'today. I went into the adventure reluctantly, you can't do it and it becomes torture.'
Intense stress in Dancing with the stars for Chimène Badi
For the interpreter ofBetween us, the exercise of dancing in a skin-tight costume in front of a live audience and millions of viewers was particularly difficult. “I wasn't comfortable, I felt naked. A man who is close, etc. However, I love dancing, in rehearsal I was tearing up my performances. But as soon as there were the cameras, it It's like I don't have any legs anymore.”explains Chimène Badi. A discomfort linked to her relationship with her body and the image she had of herself at the time.
For Chimène Badi, remarks about her physique now hurt less
Chimène Badi, like many women artists, has very often been reduced to her physique. If this has long pained her, even hurt her, she claims to take criticism with more philosophy from now on. “When you get to 42, these are the kinds of things you've left behind for a while. We're women, we lose, we gain weight, we have gray hair, skin problems… In a woman, it's much more pronounced than in a man You see since my Edith Piaf project, I have gained 10 kg and that's okay, I accept that at one time it would have been so stressful for me. on sale“, she confides.
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