After several weeks of absence, "
A Sunday in the countryside
" is back on France 2. On January 29, comedian Michel Boujenah, star dancer François Alu and singer
Chimène Badi
are spending the weekend together .
.
And the latter returned throughout the program of
Frédéric Lopez
on the pressure felt on her physique, to the point of making her fall into bulimia.
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As a child, she suffered school harassment and racism,
"we were the first Muslim family in the village".
The insults are daily, to the point of receiving malicious phone calls at home.
"Once, I'll pick up the phone, I'm 7 or 8 years old and it's horrible what I hear on the phone"
remembers the singer.
At school
"every day you have to impose yourself, because I am expected at the exit to 'take care of my case'"
she continues to tell.
"It's scary, but we're going to stay strong"
already said to herself at that time the little girl who saw in music an escape.
Then come the singing lessons and his first teacher gives him this terrible sentence:
“you become pretty when you sing”
.
"It broke me in two"
explains Chimène Badi before adding that
"some people don't realize that in a single sentence, they can destroy you"
.
A meeting that “will screw it up”
In 2002, she took part in “Popstars”.
She was not selected to form the Whatfor group, but producer Valéry Zeitoun, then a member of the jury, spotted her and had her record a demo.
The young Chimène Badi flew to Quebec and recorded her first title,
Entre nous
.
These albums are successes, but behind the scenes, it's a different story.
"I live it like a robot"
remembers the singer who says she does not like
"the one she becomes"
, someone
"nervous, anxious, stressed and lost"
.
The incessant attacks on his physique and his weight, especially in the tabloid press, do not help.
"At 20, it's very, very hard, how do you cope with all that?"
she summarizes before adding that there are
“people in the middle who do not spare you”
.
She remembers particularly severe makeover sessions from which she emerges with
"the impression of being filthy".
But the young woman accepts, continues to
"smile and sing"
because she is
"afraid of losing everything"
.
She becomes bulimic because
"there is a lack"
.
She says:
"we calm down by filling the void, it's pain in its purest form because at the time, it soothes, but behind we are so disappointed in ourselves, to hurt ourselves"
.
It's an
“unpleasant”
encounter in the profession that
“will screw her up”
to the point that she feels
“like a puppet”
that will make her react.
She analyzes alongside François Alu, Michel Boujenah and Frédéric Lopez that
“it is an immense evil for an immense good”
.
Today, Chimène Badi says she is
“liberated from the gaze of others”
.
She assures him,
“With strength, the desire to get out of it and the right people around you, you can do it”
.
