Barbra Streisand revealed in a recent interview that she was “afraid” to be seen as sensual when she was at the height of her fame.
“I was too afraid to be seen that way at that time,” she said in an interview with the New York Times. “Now I’m too old to care.”
The 81-year-old actress and singer added that she purposely tried to ‘look different’ than others throughout her career.
Streisand, who had numerous alleged love affairs with Hollywood stars, viewed herself as a “nice Jewish girl” who insisted on downplaying her sexuality throughout her career with her masculine-feminine hybrid of fashion.
“No one would have looked at me and thought, ‘That girl should be a movie star,’” she wrote in her new memoir, My Name is Barbra.
She added, “I have a small head, a crooked nose, my mouth is too big, and my eyes are too small. Did I even think I was sexy? No.”
The New York Times reporter Ruth La Ferla wrote that the singer was “achingly aware of her otherness.”
In the interview, she spoke about how Vogue editor Diana Vreeland was impressed with Streisand’s “originality” in fashion choices, which led to her being added to best-dressed lists.
Later in her career, she gradually became adventurous and “sensual” in her style, which included a pinstripe suit that showed off her bosom at former President Bill Clinton’s first inaugural gala and later showed off her legs in an interview with W magazine.
When Streisand is not discussing her fashion choices of years past and promoting her new memoir, she is busy on social media sharing her political views with the world.
On Tuesday, she congratulated “the brave” E. Jean Carroll for receiving a ruling in her favor of $83.3 million in damages in a defamation trial with former President Donald Trump.
“Congratulations to the brave E. Jean Carroll. She managed to accomplish the near impossible and shut Donald Trump up. And it cost Trump $88 million to do so (so far),” Streisand said on X, formerly Twitter.
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She also has called the former president “unfit for the presidency.”
“He thinks he is above the rule of law and ignores the tenets of our Constitution and democracy,” she wrote on Friday.
