Anastacia: Resilience, cancer, and broken Barbies

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Distress can be transformed into growth. Having had breast cancer, a double mastectomy, and Crohn’s, music icon Anastacia knows all too well how to be resilient through health scares.

In this chat, Fearne and Anastacia discuss how mindset and perspective can make a huge difference to our reality, especially for someone like Anastacia, who says she’s both an anxious and an optimistic person.

Plus, given the voices in her head that often told her she wasn’t pretty enough, Anastacia also gives advice on how to be ok with not looking like everyone else on the internet, and how to resist the urge to always use filters when posting online.

Anastacia’s new album, Our Songs, is out now. It celebrates the music Anastacia fell in love with while in Germany and presents 12 English-language interpretations of German top hits from the 1980s.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Fern Cotton, and this is Happy Place, the space that celebrates you just the way you are.
0:08.0	Today I'm chatting to Anastasia.
0:11.0	When I was signed, they wanted me to wear extensions, you know, I was like,
0:15.6	well what's wrong with my hair? And then they wanted me to wear all this makeup and I was like, oh I
0:19.7	guess I wasn't pretty. I never wore makeup before I only would put lipstick on and put my glasses on and what I had on my head was hair and it was you know eight rows.
0:30.0	Doing, I'm out of love days were eight rows of hair and I almost felt like I could not leave or go out of a hotel or go anywhere unless I looked like her.
0:42.0	It's terrible that now I'm insecure about my hair.
0:44.3	I never was insecure about my hair before I got in the business.
0:47.2	Okay, you know how obsessed I am with the 90s and early-norties music,
0:52.0	and Anastasia is arguably one of the biggest icons from that era.
0:57.0	I've met Anastasia a few times now. She certainly came on Celebrity Juice and was just game for all of it and I think we all just totally
1:04.8	fell in love with her then and she is genuinely one of the most warm welcoming, funny and
1:11.5	lovely guests that I've ever had on the podcast.
1:15.0	She is now back with a brand new album called Our Songs.
1:19.0	It's a really cool concept.
1:20.3	It celebrates the music she fell in love with while she was in Germany.
1:24.0	So it's 12 English language interpretations of German hits from 1980 to 2020.
1:31.0	There are powerful pop songs in there and stadium-sized rock anthems too.
1:36.5	Anastasia and I met up in Central London a couple of weeks ago. She just landed in the UK,
1:42.4	having had an absolute mayor getting here.
1:45.2	Anyone else, myself included, would have been completely lethargic,
1:49.5	but she was so full of energy. We bounced around so many different topics in this chat. How the
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