Raven-Symoné walked away from a possible pop profession after music executives demanded she carry out in a showering swimsuit and insulted her weight, she revealed on the “Sorry We’re Stoned” podcast hosted by Tish Cyrus.

“The mandatory outfit was a bathing suit, and I’m not going to get in one,” she mentioned bluntly in the course of the interview. That second, she defined, marked a turning level in her relationship with the music trade.

The former Disney Channel star mentioned she refused to take part in what she described as a tradition that prioritized revealing outfits over expertise.

“I just felt there was a time in music where it was like, the more naked you are on stage, the better it is, and I’m not going to do that,” she mentioned.

Her determination to step away wasn’t nearly wardrobe necessities. Raven-Symoné additionally recalled a painful incident the place a music govt made a merciless remark about her physique, directed at her mom. “Somebody literally said to my mother, ‘She’s so fat. How can she do so long on stage?’” she recounted.

That remark prompted her to tug the plug on the deal. “And I’m like, ‘Wow, cool beans.’ So, we’re just gonna leave this and go on tour somewhere else,” she mentioned.

music-career”>Raven-Symoné Still In Therapy Following music Career

Although she launched her first album, “Here’s to New Dreams” in 1993 at simply seven years outdated, Raven-Symoné mentioned her music profession by no means reached the heights of her Disney friends like Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers.

She attributed that to a scarcity of trade backing. “I didn’t have the machine behind me to push through,” she mentioned. “It was a blessing and a curse.”

Her relationship with Hollywood Records was so damaging that it led her to hunt counselling.

“Honey, I go to therapy for that,” she admitted. Tish Cyrus added that each she and Miley had additionally wanted remedy after their time with the identical label. Raven-Symoné responded, “Oh, it was a mess.”

In 2012, she publicly acknowledged she had no plans to launch new music as a result of “the music I had been working on wasn’t going to be something vendible.” She later informed a media outlet in 2020, “This industry will break you down.”

Her remaining album underneath Hollywood Records got here out in 2008. She returned briefly in 2020 with a stripped-down EP, however her focus has remained on tv and manufacturing work—areas the place she’s maintained management over her picture and profession.

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