"I don't speak to a minority, I don't speak to fat people." Evidently in 2024 it still needs to be clarified and BigMama, aka Marianna Mammone, born 23 years ago in San Michele Serino, province of Avellino, knows this very well.

In his debut as a competitor on the Ariston stage he will bring the song "La rage non ti basta". That anger that he felt for a long time in his childhood and adolescence , marked by bullying, physical and psychological violence and bodyshaming. Marianna had more than one unfinished business with life: even cancer, which she discovered she had at the age of twenty, and from which she managed to cure herself by undergoing 12 chemotherapy treatments.

«In my pieces I have always talked about myself but I have never made a real dedication to myself – says BigMama -. I needed it so much, in all phases of my life no one has ever apologized to me. I felt alone, even in my family, with the fear of being perceived as the failed daughter." When she was little «they threw stones at me and I was convinced that this was the “fat little girl” package. I was convinced that it was my fault because I had gone out with a friend, and that fat people should stay at home instead. Fat people were represented as comedians, as clowns, as people who don't count on anyone. And I was convinced that I was worthless in life."

However, «you either transform that anger into positive energy or you kill yourself. I don't deny that I thought about that too: when I was thirteen I wrote about self-harm and suicide. And yes, self-harm has also moved from not eating as a form of punishment."

The piece - among the authors also his girlfriend, Maria Lodovica Lazzerini ("It will be wonderful to hear his name next to mine") - "speaks of revenge, of the desire to succeed, of believing in oneself, in the deepest way possible. I wanted to do it in a universal way: I am a provincial girl who believed in her dreams. And then yes: I'm a fat girl. So?".

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