Singer and goddess JoJo is revealing in a new interview that her old record company Blackground Records put her on an ultra restrictive diet when she was 18-year-old.
JoJo broke onto the music scene when she was just 13-years-old with the BANGER “Get Out” that still slaps today.
She was notoriously the bebe girl with the HUGE amazing voice.
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But by the time JoJo was a young adult, she was believed her record company wasn’t promoting her music because to her weight,
“When I was 18, I remember being sat down in the Blackground office, and the president of the label being like, ‘We just want you to look as healthy as possible,’” she explained in her UPROXX interview.
“I was like, ‘I’m actually the picture of health,'”she continued. “‘I actually look like a healthy girl who eats and is active. And I don’t think this is about my health. I think that you want me to be really skinny.'”
“And he’s like, ‘No, I wouldn’t say that,’ blah blah blah,” JoJo recalled.
“But I ended up getting put with a nutritionist that had me on a 500 calorie a day diet, and I was on these injections that make you have no appetite.”
“I was like, ‘Let me see how skinny I can get, because maybe then they’ll put out an album. Maybe I’m just so disgusting that no one wants to see me in a video and they can’t even look at me,'” she explained.
“That’s really what I thought.”
“So I started getting really f—ed up, drinking, making out with strangers, looking for validation and attention and looking to feel pretty, looking to feel good, to feel worthy,” she continued.
Thankfully, JoJo was finally released from her contract with Blackground Records in 2014, and has been living her best life ever since.
Keep rocking it, queen!
Last Updated on February 26, 2020 by Anastasia Ross
