{"id":26440,"date":"2023-07-15T09:26:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T09:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/15\/id-had-enough-given-up-watched-all-my-friends-get-married-rita-ora-opens-up-about-single-struggles\/"},"modified":"2023-07-15T09:26:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T09:26:23","slug":"id-had-enough-given-up-watched-all-my-friends-get-married-rita-ora-opens-up-about-single-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/15\/id-had-enough-given-up-watched-all-my-friends-get-married-rita-ora-opens-up-about-single-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&apos;d had enough, given up, watched all my friends get married&#8217;: Rita Ora opens up about single struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-07-15\" datetime=\"1689413183\" pubdate=\"\">15 July 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/rita-ora\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,rita-ora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rita Ora<\/a> has admitted it was difficult to watch her friends get married and have babies while she was still single.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">&#8216;I\u2019d had enough, given up, watched all my friends get married&#8217;: Rita Ora opens up about single struggles<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old singer and actress tied the knot with director Taika Waititi, 47, last year but revealed waiting to find true love was difficult as her friends moved on without her.<\/p>\n<p>On her new track &#8216;Waiting For You&#8217;, Rita sings: \u201cI\u2019d had enough, given up, watched all my friends get married \u2014 lonely under the chandelier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Always kept up my guard,\u2009wasn\u2019t ready for love.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009\u2009just a beat in my heart with no use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, speaking to The Sun newspaper about the song, Rita explained: &#8220;It wasn\u2019t metaphorically. This is literally how I felt.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;A couple of my friends had been like, \u2018Oh my gosh, I\u2019m pregnant\u2019 or \u2018Oh gosh, I\u2019m getting married\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cLife is happening and everyone is getting older and I felt like it was something that is very relatable.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cPeople think, \u2018Oh well, what about me?\u2019 I thought it was a vulnerable and insightful position for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nRita revealed she wanted to be honest with her fans and she believes that other women will connect with her story.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;I think it connects us \u2014 especially girls and women and the social pressure we feel we have to reach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI wanted to be blunt and honest. I knew that if I wanted to do this then I really had to do this \u2014 not like half-heartedly. It took a lot of guts.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI am really proud that I have done it. I was writing the things I was going through at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI was actually getting married then writing about it. I was living through it. It is an album diary.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/enough-given-watched-friends-get-married-rita-ora-opens-single-struggles-1382086.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 July 2023 Rita Ora has admitted it was difficult to watch her friends get married and have babies while she was still single. &#8216;I\u2019d had enough, given up, watched all my friends get married&#8217;: Rita Ora opens up about single struggles The 32-year-old singer and actress tied the knot with director Taika Waititi, 47, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[596,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-26440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-rita-ora","9":"tag-taika-waititi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}