Anica Milenkovic on 115 Kilos: I Ate to Cope With Stress
The singer speaks openly for the first time about the hardest chapter of her life, when she weighed 115 kilograms while her son went through surgeries, and how she lost more than 50 kilos in six months.
- Anica Milenkovic has admitted for the first time that she once weighed 115 kilograms.
- She linked the weight gain to stress over her son Filip, who was born with impaired hearing and operated on as a baby.
- With a nutritionist and a trainer she lost more than 50 kilograms in just six months.
- She spent part of that difficult period in America, where, she says, food was her only comfort.
Anica Milenkovic has spoken openly for the first time about the period when she weighed 115 kilograms, revealing that she turned to food to ease the stress and grief she felt while her son went through a series of surgeries. In a television interview, the singer admitted to something she had kept private for years.
Her son Filip was born with impaired hearing and was operated on while still a baby. That stretch, Anica says, was the hardest of her life. As she wrestled with worry for her child and the uncertainty of each new procedure, the weight quietly piled on, and for a long time she barely noticed it.
“Food was my only way to cope with the sadness,” the singer said, describing how eating became a mechanism for handling emotions she did not know how else to channel. She spent part of that period in America, far from her usual support network, which she admits made the situation even harder.
How did she manage to lose more than half a hundred kilos?
The turning point came when she decided to seek professional help. With a nutritionist who designed her eating plan and a trainer who guided her through physical activity, Anica started slowly but stayed consistent. The result was striking: she dropped from 115 kilograms to around 63 to 65, and all of it in just six months.
The singer stresses that there is no magic behind the transformation, only work, discipline and, above all, tackling what sat at the root of the problem. Once she found her emotional footing and her son’s condition began to improve, her relationship with food shifted too. She stopped eating out of stress and started eating to stay healthy.
Why does her story matter more than the number on the scale?
Anica chose to talk about all of this only now, at enough distance from her darkest days to look back on them calmly. Her account is not a story about a diet, but about how worry over a child can quietly wear a parent down, and how that inner struggle so often shows up in the body.
Rather than treating the weight as a source of shame, the singer placed it in context, as a consequence rather than a weakness. That is precisely why her story resonates with so many people who went through similar chapters in silence. The message she sends is simple: asking for help is not a defeat, but the beginning of recovery.
Today Anica looks entirely different and, as she puts it, feels better than she has in years. And you, do you believe that honesty about topics like this is something the music scene sorely lacks?
