Lorde talks about her recent health issues. In a cover by Rolling Stone published on May 15, the singer revealed that she had developed a food disorder and spoke openly about her experiences, remembering how she was “fasting” and watching her calorie intake.

Lorde was particularly difficult to promote her album in 2021, Solar Power. On the day it was released, it felt impossible but also “not quite impossible”, leading it to more extreme measures. “I was so hungry and so weak,” he said. “I was on television that morning and I didn’t eat because I wanted my belly to look little in the dress. It was like sucking my vital power or something. “

By 2022, when a worldwide tour for the album began, Lorde had not yet admitted to herself that her habits had evolved into a food disorder. He had conflicting feelings. On the one hand, she loved many things on the tour, and she had yet written in her informative email that Solar Power’s appearances had “fixed a lot” inside her, but on the other, she was giving a private, internal battle.

“I don’t know how both can apply: that I live this wonderful, rich experience of concerts and meet these kids, and yet I look at the photos afterwards and I feel deeply dislike seeing my beautiful, small belly, believing that the situation I let her reach.”

Lorde was the first time hints that she was struggling with a food disorder in the remix of Charli Xcx’s success “Girl, So Confusing”. “I was so lost in my mind and I was scared to be in your photos,” he sang. “Because in recent years, I was in war with my body / I tried to fast to become weaker, and then I got all the weight back.”

It was not by the end of 2023, when she went through a separation and moved to New York, which realized that her eating habits did not do her good. On the contrary, she says that as soon as she began not to deal with calories and restrictions, her creative gates opened, which helped her create her upcoming album, Virgin.

“I had all this energy to create things,” he said. “I could see that if I cut off this rope, I might get back something I needed to do my job. And it was absolutely true. I got it all back, and much more. “