Published on January 26, 2024 at 3:39 p.m. Joyce Jonathan: the singer opens up about her eating disorders – © Berzane Nasser/ABACA
On January 18, Laurie Darmon unveiled a collection of testimonies entitled “Body to hearts”. A book in which several celebrities talk about their journey to self-acceptance.
Joyce Jonathan makes rare confidences. This January 18, Laurie Darmon unveiled her work “Corps à cœurs”. A collection of testimonials in which nine celebrities talk about their journey to self-acceptance. Among them, the singer of “It will be”, discusses her fight against eating disorders when she was in a relationship with Thomas Hollande. She reveals that she did the Dukan diet which made her lose more than eight kilos in a month and a half. “When I don’t see him [son compagnon] I starve myself, when I see it, I eat more or less normally,” she confides. Joyce Jonathan ended up reaching 35 kilos and 1.60 meters tall. “With the weight loss, I especially see the way others look at me, I convince myself that I have found the solution, and that all of this was just a matter of weight,” explains the star.
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“My body didn’t understand anything”
Shortly after separating from her partner, Joyce Jonathan developed a new eating disorder, bulimia: “It’s true that I ate randomly. I gained a lot of weight all of a sudden. Lots of things like that that make you not necessarily feel good about yourself,” she admitted to “Télé-Loisirs”. In Laurie Darmon’s book, she also explains this period of her life when she participated in the show “Dancing with the Stars” on TF1: “I break down and eat everything in my dressing room. It does not make sense. I starved myself all week, telling myself that this way I would look good, and I broke down in the evening. » In one month, the young woman gains 20 kilos and goes from 34 kilos to 75 kilos in the space of six months. “My body didn’t understand anything,” she admits in “Corps à cœurs”.
Ultimately, it was the birth of her daughter in 2020 that allowed the singer to have a “real breakthrough”. Motherhood allowed the artist to find balance and overcome her eating disorders.
