The celebrity and success are not enough to be happy! It is not uncommon to see celebrities going through dark periods. Recently, Mentissa recounted being a victim of cyberbullying after her victory in The Voice Kids Belgium. “I was 14 years old. I had won The Voice Kids. I was excited to know what was being said after my victory. My first reaction was to check on Facebook. I came across a hundred unfriendly comments: she sang badly, she doesn’t deserve her victory…”, Mentissa said in Ciné-Télé-Revue.
These hateful comments unfortunately had an impact on her. “I was hurt. It had an impact on the image I had of myself, of my voice. I thought: ‘They are right, it was bad, I should never have won’,” the Belgian singer said. But the singer has also been confronted with racism.
In a heartbreaking video, Mentissa reveals feeling bad to her subscribers
And if we thought Mentissa was fulfilled thanks to her success in the music world, it is not the case. In fact, on Thursday, March 26, 2026, the singer decided to open up on Instagram. She confesses to be in great pain. “No, I’m not doing well. No, I don’t want to go on stage when, the day before, I stepped on the scale and still haven’t reached the weight I want (that damn scale)!”, she wrote.
She adds: “I have the life I’ve always dreamed of… I don’t understand… why do I want to stop everything every three months? Why do I regret everything I said in interviews and feel like a stupid person who expresses herself badly? (Really every time) Why do they stick labels on me that I don’t want? Why do I have this too smooth image of an uninteresting girl? Maybe it’s me who gave this image?”. Clearly very critical of herself, Mentissa also questions her decision to confide on the Internet.
Mentissa unhappy because of her physical complexes
But today, the singer wants to shed light on the battle she secretly fights against her body. “All my life I will be stuck in this body that I hated so much. Judged too fat when I was younger and having to go on very strict diets,” she wrote. And she adds: “(I had a lot of trouble with my curves from that moment on…) Repeatedly relaxing my hair to have the same hair as my idols on TV. A body that heard and saw violence at 12 years old and still trying to heal from it… That’s who I am… a broken little girl who is still trying to find comfort in the woman I am becoming.” A heartbreaking post. Fortunately, the singer was able to count on the support of her many subscribers to lift her spirits.
