Regardless of the ultra-confident persona we see onstage, Anitta, too, grew up with insecurities — however she by no means let that stand in her method.
Within the Brazilian star’s new Netflix documentary Larissa: The Different Facet of Anitta, the “Envolver” singer reveals she struggled together with her look when she was a younger lady.
“I used to be very horrendous,” Anitta, 31, says within the documentary, which premiered on Thursday, March 6.
“At school… every time I walked in a classroom at the moment, folks would fake they have been dying as a result of my nostril was so huge,” the singer (born Larissa de Macedo Machado) continues. “They might fake they have been suffocating to demise.”
Then, Anitta’s father’s enterprise was “going by a troublesome time” and she or he wanted to modify to non-public college. The “BELLAKEO” singer “liked to review” and dreaded the transfer — till she came upon there was a magnificence pageant occurring the place the winner earned a scholarship.
“I do not consider in coincidences, I feel all the things occurred so I might have this story to inform,” she says.
“I grew to become a joke within the college once I signed up,” Anitta provides.
The theme of the pageant was “recycling” and she or he made a “espresso cup outfit” with some assist from her mother. After they arrived on the pageant, the opposite contestants had outfits that have been “tremendous well-produced” and Anitta’s mother recommended they go away.
“So I mentioned, ‘Mother, it would not matter. They do not have what I’ve,'” she recalled saying. “Charisma.”
After they introduced her identify because the winner, and Anitta’s mother was midway out the door, she mentioned to her aunt: “Did not I let you know I used to be gonna win?”
She then mentioned she acquired her sash, her flowers and her scholarship and “studied without cost.”
In Larissa: The Different Facet of Anitta, the star “reveals her most intimate world but on this documentary that explores her twin id, private struggles and seek for pleasure,” based on the outline.
In 2023, the star opened as much as ipromiseyoumedia about balancing her stage persona, Anitta, with the actual Larissa.
“Larissa could be very personal, very relaxed, very low key and really quiet. Anitta is the alternative: outspoken, exposing myself,” the singer advised ipromiseyoumedia. “I feel it’s two utterly totally different folks and I used to wrestle with that.”
She added, “It [used to be] two sides of my mind combating with one another. [Then,] I discovered the way to make them talk.”
Larissa is out now.