“I started setting myself against others and thinking, ‘Oh, I don’t like myself anymore because I wish I had that, and I wish I had that.’' TheMentalHealthIssue
. “With everything that is happening in the world at the moment – especially now – you think, ‘I’m not going to worry about my little thing.’ But you need to. My advice? Just try and help yourself as soon as possible and not let it get to a really bad place. Come to some realisations, talk to your friends and go to therapy when possible. I wish I would have talked about it sooner rather than let it get to a really extreme place,” she admits, her eyes filling with tears.
“Writing it down really helped. I’m so lucky that I’m able to write my thoughts in songs. I think without that I would have been a recluse. I don’t know what I would’ve done with my life, to be honest.”For me, Anne-Marie is a symbol of positivity: proof that you can, and will, get through your current situation. And most importantly, that it’s OK not to be OK at times.
This newfound place of personal positivity is not a destination teenage Anne-Marie would have ever dreamed of arriving at. Yet it exudes from the lead single of her second album, with such lyrics as: ‘It’s my birthday/ I’m a do what I like/ I’m a eat what I like/ I’m a kiss who I like.’ Now, she is more comfortable in her skin than ever – although she laments the time it’s taken her to get to this point. “It’s taken too long, that’s what my issue is. If I just started this self-love journey a little bit sooner, I would’ve had all of my 20s to have fun. I feel like my 20s were a lot of learning and dealing with stuff that I should have dealt with earlier in my life.”
Preparing to slip back into popstar mode to pull some poses for her GLAMOUR cover shoot, Anne-Marie leans in to me and says, “I really needed that chat today.” And as she skips off to slip out of her tie-dye Prada shirt and into a fulllook, I can’t help thinking that she is just the kind of role model we need right now. One who talks openly and honestly about her experiences and one who encourages us all to do the same.
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