Yesterday at 5:00 p.m. – by Lola Breton
Dancing in front of millions of viewers isn't easy for everyone. However, almost every year since 2010, a handful of French personalities have played the game in Dancing with the starson TF1. In 2012, Chimène Badi was part of the cast of season 3 (ultimately won by Emmanuel Moire and Fauve Hautot). But the 42-year-old singer does not have very good memories of this experience. 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 returned to this shoot to Here is. Chimène Badi is sure, she will not do this show again: “I just wasn't cut out for this program, I knew that, 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. I went into the adventure reluctantly, you can't do it and it becomes torture.”
In Dancing with the stars, Chimène Badi was under great pressure
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.
Chimène Badi has more perspective on the negative comments she receives
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.
Article written in collaboration with 6Médias
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