In her new book, 'My Name is Barbra,' the multi-award-winning performer says the criticism of her face still stings to this day.
But she never caved to the pressure, despite many arguing it would have helped her career, and now the superstar is explaining why.. I thought, Isn’t my talent enough? A nose job would hurt and be expensive,” she wrote, according to an excerpt provided to People magazine.
“Well, it turned out that someone had taken off the bump on my nose! I guess they thought I’d be pleased, but I actually like that bump,” she wrote. “That bump and I have been through a lot together.”In fact, Streisand says she likes long noses: “Italian actress Silvana Mangano had one and everyone seemed to think she was beautiful.”
She also writes that it wasn’t just pressure to change her face — when she was starting out in showbiz she was told she should also change her name. “They wanted something simpler … Barbara Strand or Sands … but that felt phony,” she recalled. “Plus, how would my old friends know it was me, once I became famous?”
Instead, she chose to only change the spelling of her first name from “Barbara” to “Barbra” so she could be “different and unique.”More men are getting plastic surgery — here’s what they’re gettingThe position has been filled: Hunt for the 1st Taylor Swift reporter ends
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