Ruth Lorenzo He has had a very complicated path to achieving stardom. The singer, originally from Las Torres de Cotillas, Murcia, was born into a large and humble family: she is the fifth of six siblings and he never met his biological father. However, those setbacks that affected his early life did not prevent him from moving forward with his life.
The Murcian woman made the big leap outside our borders in 2008 after participating in the casting of the fifth edition of ‘The X Factor’. Although he fell short of the final, his success and the recognition of figures as important to music as Simon Cowell earned him a place in the industry until his big opportunity arrived: representing Spain at Eurovision 2014 with ‘Dancing.’ in the Rain’.
Although it did not win the edition, it achieved one of the best positions for our country that can be remembered in recent years. The 10th place she obtained earned her a little space in the hearts of many Eurofans who, almost a decade later, continue to ask that the artist return to the stages of the Song Festival to once again represent Spain. Ruth Lorenzo returned to the Eurovision world with the help of Benidorm Fest 2024where she served as presenter for the first time, a role she repeats again in the festival’s junior festival, which is being held today at the Madrid Magic Box after France’s refusal to host the festival again in its country.
Ruth Lorenzo’s childhood: Mormon family and eating disorders
Ruth Lorenzo was born in Las Torres de Cotillas, a small town in Murcia, in 1982. The singer belongs to a large family that professes the Mormon religion, which she also joined for much of her life: «My family is Mormon and I grew up within the religion, but I am a rebel,” he confessed on ‘MasterChef Celebrity’, where he explained that he is not a practitioner now.
His mother, ready to abort in France After a complicated breakup and with four children in her care, she ended this religion after meeting two missionaries who convinced her not to do so. Since then, her entire family, including her, began to profess the mormonismsomething that, according to Lorenzo herself, brought good things to her life, such as family value or stay away from drugs.
This was not the only traumatic episode that the singer experienced, who struggled for much of her adolescence with the eating disorders. Ruth Lorenzo has suffered anorexia and bulimia and she herself has revealed that she learned to vomit so that people at home would not realize that she had stopped eating: “It made me feel very alone. “I couldn’t say anything, I was ashamed,” he said in an interview in Cuatro, remembering this complicated episode that he finally managed to overcome.
Breast hypertrophy, the disease that has forced her to undergo surgery three times
Health problems have also marked the life of Ruth Lorenzo, who since she was a teenager has suffered from an illness that makes her “your chest grows non-stop”: the breast hypertrophy. This disease makes her body “very sensitive to female hormones,” causing her body, and especially her breasts, to develop long before her mind.
Although an average breast can weigh about 500 grams, those of patients who suffer from this disorder can exceed up to a kilo and a half. As a result, both physical and psychological problems arise and for many people it is inevitable to receive comments: «When I met Amy Winehouse on ‘The X Factor’ he called me busty», recalled the singer.
Due to this breast hypertrophy that she suffers from, the woman from Murcia has had to undergo surgery twice, although it seems that it will not be the only intervention she will have to undergo. “I’m going for the third one, which most likely means that they will have to remove my breast completely to avoid having to continue having surgery,” he explained on the Freeda Doc podcast several months ago.
A work hell because of your contract
In recent years, the singer has not gone through her best working moment either. The reason? A “hellish contract” with his record company that has given her many headaches in recent years and that almost forced her to leave music permanently: «As an artist I saw that I didn’t own me», explains the Murcian woman in an interview.
«You trust people who tell you: ‘Don’t talk tonight, just sing because no one is interested in what you have to say.’ They told me that I had to sweeten my image so that it wouldn’t look too powerful or that it was better to leave my hair long. Then there came a time when I stopped being me», confessed the artist, who decided to cut her hair live to distance herself from these comments that tormented her for so long.
The one from the Torres de Cotillas did not hesitate to rebel against his record company After realizing this situation and decided to defend his artistic figure: «You sign a contract in which someone owns 20%, but not 100% of you. They own a part of my work, they can’t buy me», he confirmed, appearing freer than ever.
Ruth Lorenzo’s breakup with her last partner
Ruth Lorenzo has always been very jealous of your privacy and, although she has let it slip that she has been in love, she has never wanted to make public the name of any of her partners. In 2015, she said she had many problems when it came to looking at a boy: either he’s caught or he’s gayhe recounted for an interview in ‘El Mundo’.
It seemed that, in recent years, the artist’s heart was busy, although a few months ago she herself confirmed the breakup with her last partner: «I am in a moment of starting from scratch in every sense. Love is a wonder and when you find true love there is a moment when you have to let it go if not, it is not true love,” he revealed in an interview with Toñi Moreno in ‘Afternoon Plan’.
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