America’s Got Talent alum Jackie Evancho is opening up about her battle with anorexia and revealed her journey to get help.
The 22-year-old singer, who placed second on AGT back in 2010, says she suffered from an eating disorder for 7 years, and knew she needed to get help after a January 2021 car accident.
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Jackie Evancho has dropped her new, Broadway-inspired album The Debut!
The singer and America’s Got Talent finalist released the 10-track album on Friday (April 12).
Jackie just turned 19 years old, making this her first album released as an adult.
“This is the first album where I was actually able to speak my mind, and people listened,” she told New York Daily News. “You’ll be able to see a bit of my ideas as an artist, rather than just a singer.”
“I spoke my mind a lot (in the past),” she added. “But no one really wants to take a 10-year-old seriously.”
Rather than the classical crossover music she has become known for, The Debut consists of Broadway numbers that Jackie put her own spin on.
“I really want to know what else my voice can do,” she explained. “I knew I could sing when I was 10, but I didn’t know what else my voice could do. It developed into different things and I found out that I have a pop voice now. Really, I don’t want to limit myself to one specific genre.”
Listen to The Debut below! You can also download it on iTunes.
READ MORE: Jackie Evancho Debuts Music Video for ‘Hamilton’ Cover ‘Burn’ (Exclusive Premiere)
Jackie Evancho‘s new album The Debut, featuring covers of some of the best songs from Broadway musicals, is being released this week and JustJared.com is exclusively premiering the music video for her cover from Hamilton!
The 19-year-old singer and former America’s Got Talent contestant sang a cover of the Eliza song “Burn,” which chronicles the character’s reaction to discovering her husband’s affair.
“I chose ‘Burn’ for the album because I wanted to include a song from Hamilton - it is such an important ground breaking musical of our time,” Jackie told us about choosing the song. “The album would not be complete without it. When I first heard it I absolutely adored the passion of Eliza’s feelings towards her husband’s betrayal and it just spoke to me in a profound way.”
“My inspiration for the video of ‘Burn’ was to put a modern-day twist on the story of Hamilton and his wife and I really want to people that are my age and maybe younger, or even older, to be able relate to it in a way that’s more modern,” she added.
Make sure to pre-order Jackie‘s new album now on iTunes. It will be available on April 12!
By the way, TODAY (April 9) is Jackie‘s 19th birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Susan Lucci is all smiles while posing in her red dress at the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women Red Dress Collection show on Thursday (February 7) at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.
The show is held annually during New York Fashion Week and it has an extra special meaning for Susan this year.
Susan, 72, revealed this week that she underwent emergency and life-saving heart surgery recently.
Also participating in the show were The Talk co-host Eve, Total Bellas stars Nikki and Brie Bella, singer Becky G, gymnast Laurie Hernandez, actress Rosanna Arquette, Disney star Skai Jackson, Riverdale‘s Ashleigh Murray, America’s Got Talent‘s Jackie Evancho, Top Chef‘s Padma Lakshmi, social media star Jordyn Woods, The Wonder Years‘ Danica McKellar, Empire‘s Nicole Ari Parker, and TV host Brooke Burke.
FYI: Susan is wearing a Rubin Singer ballgown. Becky is wearing a Stello gown. Padma is wearing a Cushnie gown.
Jackie Evancho is back on the America’s Got Talent stage for The Champions spinoff!
The 18-year-old singer gave a stunning performance of “Music of the Night” during the show on Monday evening (February 4).
Jackie first made her debut on AGT when she was just 10-years-old, when she came in second place.
“It allowed me to reflect on my journey – the reason I wanted to do the show was to walk onto that stage as a young woman and show the world I am no longer a child,” Jackie recently shared in a profound Facebook post about her return to the show.
Check out Jackie‘s entire performance below…
Jackie Evancho is opening up about her struggle with an eating disorder.
The 18-year-old America’s Got Talent superstar discussed her battle in an interview with Access.
During the interview, she spoke about having body dysmorphia and having an eating disorder while growing up in the public eye. She explained that she would “go days without eating” because she couldn’t look in the mirror without thinking she was “disgusting.”
“What got my parents to notice was me skipping dinners, as well as everything else,” she said.
Watch Jackie open up below.
The first-ever season of America’s Got Talent: The Champions is about to begin and some of our favorite contestants from years past are returning to compete!
The show will feature 50 of the best acts from Got Talent franchises around the world, including America’s Got Talent season 12 winner Darci Lynne Farmer and season 5 runner-up Jackie Evancho.
Britain’s Got Talent‘s first winner Paul Potts, the opera singer who inspired the movie One Chance, and global superstar Susan Boyle are also going to compete.
For the first five weeks, 10 contestants will perform and two acts will advance to the finals. There will be seven episodes in the special edition of the series.
Click through the slideshow to meet all of the contestants…
