Kylie Minogue has been a pop princess spanning four decades now. She made her name in the eighties with I Should Be So Lucky after appearing as Charlene in Neighbours, but had hits such as Confide In Me in the nineties, Spinning Around in the noughties and All The Lovers in the tweens.
Considering that she’s now 44 years old, we think the singer looks amazing and proves it by posing for the January issue of ELLE. Though, that’s not how she sees herself.
“I am not going to lie about this,” she says. “There are lots of times I look in the mirror and I see that gravity has taken hold. Or suddenly see my face on a phone or on Skype and it’s like a Spielberg special effect and you just scream, ‘Who is that?’”
She doesn’t always feel her age though. “Sometimes I forget (I am 44) and I think, ‘I must get those hot pants out of retirement.’ And then some mornings I look in the mirror and I see 94 not 44. That is the reality before the make-up. And midriff tops are definitely out for good.”
The singer, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 (then fiven the all-clear in November 2006) says that the illness has changed her and made her feel a close connection with other cancer sufferers.
“Women come up to me in the street and just start talking to me about what they are going through, how they are on tamoxifen (a cancer treatment drug) and its making them feel terrible. I’ll tell them there were times I cried to my doctor begging to come off it, but I did it, I went through it.
“I am still here, I am still working. I just stand there and hug them. I hug them because we both know what they are feeling. I feel very close to every one of them and I think they do to me, it’s not about anything else but what we’ve all been through.”
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Posted by Claire Sharp.
