Laura Marling ditched music to become a yoga instructor.
Laura Marling
The 'Master Hunter' hitmaker has revealed she took some time away from the music industry as she felt she "had no identity" and was "socially bankrupt".
She said: "I had no identity. It was really, really, really difficult. I was socially bankrupt. [It was a] very null time. I didn't feel like I had a gender in a weird way - I'd lost a lot of weight so I didn't really have any feminine features. I looked like a young boy. It was quite a good experience of being a non-sexual presence in the world, like a eunuch."
However, it didn't quite work out how she had planned as Laura admits she wasn't a very good yoga instructor.
She added: "You need to know a lot more than I know to do it well."
Now Laura is back with a new album, 'Semper Femina', her first in nearly two years, which she says was her "needing to love herself".
She told The Guardian newspaper: "I think probably a big part of this album was me needing to love myself, which is a bit cringe to say."
Meanwhile, Laura previously admitted she felt her time away from the music industry was "undignified".
She said: "I had little choice in the matter. It didn't seem to want to happen. It was undignified - that's exactly what it felt like.
"My music and my ability and my confidence in my ability were a huge part of my persona. Because that's such a grounding thing to be confidently doing what you are lucky enough to be good at. And I didn't have that - for the first time ever. It was horrible."
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