A crushing illness.
Singer Joyce Jonathan spoke out this Friday, January 26 for the first time about the eating disorders she suffered for 10 years.
She decided to speak on Faustine Bollaert's show, "It begins today", broadcast on France 2 at 1:55 p.m.
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Joyce Jonathan then explained how the beginning of this illness manifested itself for her: following a slight weight gain of five kilos at the end of her first tour.
She was then 22 years old.
“And then I had a romantic disappointment with a boy who only liked super thin girls and I associated him with that.
I told myself that if I had been thin, he would have liked me more.
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The singer of
Je ne sais pas
, in reaction, followed the Dukan diet which, as she asserts,
“extremely disrupted her”
.
In the space of a month and a half, the young woman lost 10 kilos and saw the way men looked at her change.
“I received lots of compliments [...] and I told myself that the key to happiness was in being thin.
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“I went from 34 to 74 kilos several times. I hid when I was in extremes, [...] I was really ashamed
,” says the young woman to the presenter.
“People around me told me that I had lost a lot of weight but they didn't take me by the hand to resolve this matter
,” she laments while affirming that it is extremely difficult for those around me to help a person. sick person.
“I was in my absolute world”
“
I was obsessed with weight, the numbers on the scale.
I made lists of what I ate.
Often, I organized myself to choose the restaurants myself.
I called to find out the day's menu and to be sure that we would be able to remove the oil, the butter or change the toppings, so much that it stressed me out.
I was going to the kitchen, I was going to check [...] It's a level of madness, it's OCD in fact.
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“I was in my absolute world
,” says the 34-year-old artist to the presenter.
“I have always been very passionate about my profession.
Luckily because I think that’s what kept me on my feet.
I was trying to convince everyone that everything was fine
,” explains Joyce Jonathan.
And this period, where the singer alternated between anorexia and bulimia, lasted ten years.
“Today, I am no longer ashamed to talk about it
,” she proudly proclaims.
But at the time, she kept this secret to herself.
“
I didn’t tell anyone, even my best friends.
They are discovering everything today in fact,”
she explains, particularly moved, to our colleagues at Brut.
“I said the word illness the day I was on the road to recovery
,” declares the woman for whom pregnancy was a liberation.
From then on, she allowed herself to be proud of the pounds she gained.