Anitta On How BULLYING Led Her To Get Plastic Surgery & Dishes About Love Life
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00:00A Larissa é frágil, sensível e a Anitta é super durona.
00:04Why when I do my things in Brazil with my people,
00:07things don't happen like that.
00:08That's Brazilian pop star Anitta,
00:10whose birth name is Larissa,
00:12is giving fans an intimate look at who she really is
00:15in the new Netflix documentary,
00:17Larissa, The Other Side of Anitta.
00:19And Anitta reveals to AXS Guest Correspondent,
00:21Emily Orozco, why she's now letting her true self emerge.
00:27I wanna cry.
00:29What inspired you to tell this story?
00:31I think people look at the TV or look at Instagram
00:36and think, oh, this person has a perfect life.
00:38And I just wanted to show that inside,
00:41we're all dealing with our internal battle.
00:44Ever since her 2021 single Involver
00:46topped the Billboard charts
00:47and became an international breakthrough hit
00:49with over 800 million views on YouTube,
00:52Anitta's star has continued to rise.
00:54But as the documentary shows,
00:55Anitta's pop persona is just that,
00:57as only her inner circle knows the real Larissa.
01:00How would you describe the difference
01:01between Larissa and Anitta?
01:03As Larissa, I feel like I'm free to be insecure sometimes.
01:08I'm free to be scared.
01:10I'm free to be sad, vulnerable.
01:13Anitta is the one that's not afraid of saying anything.
01:17You talk about getting bullied growing up,
01:19which is like, you know,
01:20it's so hard for us to think of that
01:22because you're so beautiful.
01:23I have so many plastic surgeries.
01:26I know.
01:27And you're very open about this.
01:29Never shying away from the topic
01:30of her physical enhancements,
01:31Anitta even documented her plastic surgery journey
01:34in the video for her 2022 single Versions of Me,
01:38which depicts her transformation throughout the years.
01:41Was bullying the reason
01:42that you explored plastic surgery?
01:44Yeah.
01:45Yes, because I didn't even know that I had a big nose.
01:51I don't have it now,
01:53but I've noticed because of how people
01:56were making fun of it.
01:58So I think the beginning was because of that.
02:01And, but then I just got the taste for it.
02:03And now I just like it.
02:09The documentary also showcases
02:10some of Anitta's romantic life
02:11as she begins to form an intimate relationship
02:13with co-director and old friend, Pedro Cantelmo.
02:16I remembered that Pedro, my crush from when I was a kid,
02:20he became a film director.
02:22So I text him and he came to my life.
02:25But then with the intimacy, we ended up relating again
02:29and that made the whole movie even more special.
02:33People are gonna wonder if you're with Pedro.
02:35So you're-
02:35No, I'm not.
02:36Okay, you're single.
02:37Yes, I mean, I don't know if I'm single,
02:39but I'm not with Pedro.
02:43She's definitely not with Pedro.
02:45That's very clear.
02:46True.
02:46Gotta keep a little mystery.
02:47Larissa, the other side of Anitta is out now on Netflix.