Rita Pavone: «When they told me that I was too small and that I wasn’t beautiful»

Rita Pavone she became famous when she was just a young girl and hasn’t stopped since. His childhood, however, was not all sunshine and rosesand in some ways growing up in the spotlight didn’t help.

In a recent interview given to the Rai Isoradio broadcast Change is possible. Female success storiesRita Pavone recounted some of the difficulties of the beginning: «Dad believed in me blindlytold me that I could be loved or hated, but I would never receive only indifference. I encountered body shaming as a child; they told me I was too small and that I wasn’t beautiful. Who cares, I’m a singer and I think I was up to my role.”

Rita Pavone, now 78 years old, then spent some words on talent shows which today bring out many artists in the world of music. «Today’s talent talent kids are very lucky and don’t realize it. Previously they worked their way up to be seen, now they are made easier by the television opportunity that gives you an audience you never imagined you could have. Sometimes they think they have already arrived, but in reality getting there is very easy, the difficult thing is staying. They must learn to hold this opportunity in their hands and treat it like a crystal: fragile, but beautiful.”

At the side of the Turin singer there has been, for 56 years, her husband and love of her life Teddy Reno: at the time of their civil wedding the two were harshly criticized (especially Rita), due to their 19 year age difference and the fact that he was a divorced man. After more than half a century, the two are still very much in love.