Think she must have been on steroids when these were taken.

But she's still beautiful whatever :wub:

 

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The link didn't work :(

 

And Simes, you're not boring anyone, at least not me :P It was interresting to read and to get a lil understanding for what Ana (and other people with chrons are going through) cus it's kinda hard to imagine

 

well, can't say anything about the child birth part, cus I haven't had a baby yet, but period pains are.. PAINFUL..veeery painful :lol:

 

Well i can deffo agree with you on that one! :lol:

 

and no u weren't boring me either ;) and thanks for clearing the steroids thing up :)

do i have to copy and paste?

American R&B star Anastacia's amazing voice must have Tina Turner either slitting her wrists or sighing with relief, tossing aside her wig and putting her feet up on the coffee table. And her success has been fast.

 

Since her first album was released two years ago, she has become an international star. Her debut single, I'm Outta Love, was the most imitated song on Pop Idol. This year she was voted MTV Best Pop Act of 2001.

 

Her new single, One Day In Your Life, taken from her latest album Freak Of Nature is released on the Epic label on Monday.

 

Anastacia lives in Manhattan. We met at the Hyde Park Mandarin Oriental Hotel in London. Small, striking and individual, she is a tiny dynamo. With a personality and warmth as big as her voice.

 

I'm very big-busted and I could flaunt it. My goodness, I could flaunt it like Pamela Anderson. Completely. And for real.

 

But even although I'm bustier than most of the artists out there, and I'm very wild in the way I dress, I try to keep it more, for me, on the tasteful, conservative side. Because, you know, it's not where my head is at. I think it stems from hating my breasts for so long when I was young.

 

 

Now I'm kind of in a point where I feel sexy. But this is really the first time I've felt like I've had sex appeal. Ever. I don't think that I'm the sexiest, but I do, from the inside out, feel sexier as a woman now that I'm older. I'm 29. Sexier than I did when I was 18, the age most kids feel attractive.

 

Then I was a mess. You know. I was 25lbs bigger than I am now. I'd had Crohn's disease, a disease of the small intestine, diagnosed when I was 13. I'd had an operation, had a lot of my intestine taken out. And five years later, I had a relapse. Because I went on a diet.

 

A producer told me I was too large and I wasn't singing right because I was fat.

 

You have to understand how big I was. I was doing flips and splits on stage and I was not ballerina skinny. I had very big breasts for a dancer.

 

It was a very dramatic only fruit and vegetable diet. And with my disease that was like putting glass down my intestine. Because it's all fibre. But I didn't know, I hadn't had a problem for years and I thought, "I don't have this disease, it was a mistake by the doctors." All I had was a scar.

 

An attack can be pretty bad. Very debilitating, excruciatingly painful. It can kill you. I went on medication that's kind of like chemo for cancer, the side effects are horrendous. You puff up, it's the moon face, you break out in spots, your hair falls out. It's a horrible drug, really does set you low.

 

On it I was depressed and confused and going through the stage that teenagers go through. Where do you fit in? I had a problem with my height. I was like, "Nobody's going to want to date me." And I had a problem with my scar. Really dramatically.

 

And when you're depressed, you turn to food because it's comforting. I went up to 150lbs, and I'm 5ft3ins. A lot of weight to go on somebody that height. More than big and fat, I looked like a weightlifter. A very chunky me.

 

I was very, very depressed. But I got healthy by understanding the disease. It's stress-related and you need to understand yourself. I studied different religions but didn't want to be religious. I was searching for me.

 

By the time 22 rolled round, I'd become an extremely strong-minded woman, living life to its fullest each day.

 

The weight eventually came off. When I try to diet, it just doesn't work. I love food and I think too much about it. But now I'm a normy. I don't let food rule me. And I don't have to worry about what I eat. I'm very active. When I'm not working I do put on a couple of pounds. But the minute I go back it just drops.

 

I'm like a guy like that. I'm 123lbs. People are like, "Aren't you smaller than that?" You know, I'm solid. I don't work out, I don't do anything, that's just my genetic build. If I had no muscle, I'd be 110lbs. I'm very proud of what I look like now. It's OK to be short and OK to show my scar.

 

I don't think I'm the prettiest, I don't think I should be in the top 10 of the glam stuff. But I'm happy with the way I look, and that's cool. So this is a very good time, my best. As time goes on it gets better. My mom's always said, "Our family is like wine, darling. We get better in age." My mother, God! She's phenomenal. Great genes.

 

She's a theatre actress and she says she was aware of my voice when I was three.

 

She was driving from Baptist church and all these sounds were coming out of me in the baby chair. What I'd heard, I was imitating. I got pitch, no problem, did a little vibrato. She was going, "Oh my God!"

 

She brought my brother and sister and me up, first of all in Chicago. My parents split when I was very young and my dad, who was a crooner, was just not a dad.

 

 

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When I was in high school we moved to New York. Mom had just gotten a Broadway musical.

 

But my brother has autism, and he's not very good there, he was getting mugged. Mom gave up her career and we moved to California where she enrolled him in a great programme. He's an amazing boy for it. When I was a teenager, I started as a dancer.

 

People started asking me if I sang. And my reaction was, "I guess I do." Because I didn't think about it, didn't think I had a tremendous gift. Like I was Celine or Mariah or anything. I worked in night clubs, casinos, with different bands.

 

We would do demos, cover songs. I worked as a wedding singer. In fact I sang at Spielberg's wedding. And said it to him the other day. I was in the same restaurant, he was with his wife and Tom Cruise and Penelope.

 

My table talked me into going up. I was like, "Uuh!" But a glass of wine later, I was like, "OK!" I was so nervous I didn't even introduce myself, but Tom totally knew it was me.

 

HE held out his hand and said, "Very nice to meet you." I was babbling on about how ironic it was, and Spielberg turned to his wife and said, "You know what the most ironic part is? We're still married!"

 

I was collecting unemployment when I met my manager. She said, "Voices like yours come once a century." I was like, "Yeah, right." Totally the non-believer.

 

But two months later I got an MTV show, The Cut. I was so used to rejection, I thought everyone would laugh at me, but it changed my life. That was three and a half years ago.

 

My career since then has happened so fast. It's the kind of thing that doesn't happen, you usually take a long time to get there. I signed in '99 and put my first album out in 2000. I can't believe it, it's sold four million worldwide, and is still selling. Along with the new album, Freak Of Nature.

 

And all the awards! It's been a dream. My career has meant that I'm able to give back to my mom what she gave to us as kids. I said, "I don't want you to get just any sort of job, I'm going to take care of you." And now I'm encouraging her to go back to her auditions, because she sacrificed her career for my brother.

 

I say, "Get your nails done. Go to Vegas, visit a friend. Have your life. Have fun now." As to my father, I haven't seen him since I was 17. My choice. I didn't see the point. It was more nerve-wracking seeing him than not. Just a bad relationship. I felt like, "I call you dad, but why?"

 

I don't know anything about what he's doing or who he is. I don't want to search him out. I don't know if he's passed away, if I have half brothers or sisters.

 

But I'm OK about it. It's the same way I feel about my five-year relationship that I had to end last summer,

 

although it was heartbreaking. Crying. It's so much easier to leave when you're mad. But certain journeys need to be made. And certain journeys need to end.

 

Contrary to reports I don't have a boyfriend, but I'm beginning to be more in a dating phase. I took proper recovery time from such a deep relationship. Would still find it hard to say that somebody is even my boyfriend.

 

I said the word, "Sex!" when I smiled for the camera and joked, "I haven't had it." Well, anyone who's in a relationship has it a lot more than I can. When you have somebody in your life, you do. Am I saying I'm celibate? I'm not saying anything.

 

But I'm not lonely, I don't miss the intimacy. Because you have to fall in love with somebody to want that. I don't miss cuddling with somebody. I missed the cuddling with Sean because that's who I loved.

 

It's going to happen, sure it will. But I'm never looking for love, I never look for anything. The same way I didn't look for this career, and the tremendous success it's had. I couldn't have planned it if I tried. Love is about destiny, too.

 

I'm very happy, proud of what I do. I'm working so hard, concentrating on the new single and loving it. Every day I learn something, I'm a work in progress.

 

With my life, my career the way it is, I can wait for the rest. Oh, I can wait.

 

ANASTACIA ON FAME, ILLNESS

 

AND HER RUNAWAY DAD

 

MY BIGGEST DOWNFALL

 

Doritos, I love them. It's true, totally! It's on my rider in my contract, I've got to have Doritos in my dressing room. I don't have them every day, although I went through a time when I did. I discovered that in some countries they don't have the actual brand. So when I came over to Europe first I even carried them with me in the suitcase, and they were turning into Doritos crumbs. But I'd still eat them, scrape them from the bag.

 

MY FAVOURITE DRINK

 

Red wine, a very, very good smooth dry one. More on the vanilla, not as oaky, and definitely not fruity. Californian? Actually, I like French and Italian.

 

I've never had problems with alcohol, I'm very disciplined. I don't drink when I sing. There are many dinners, where I'm like, "I'm singing tomorrow, I can't."

 

I've been drunk in my time, of course, but it's not something I'd ever do on purpose. I don't like to feel lost.

 

MY HEALTH NIGHTMARE

 

I've suffered twice from attacks of Crohn's disease. It's stress-related.

 

Because it's dealing with your intestines, you get dreadful stomach pains. And very bad arthritic pains in your hands, your knees and your joints. Mainly it involves your food. And because you can't eat properly and also because nutrition can't be absorbed properly, either, you usually end up losing lots of weight. Thank God, I'm completely fine now.

 

MY EYE DEAL

 

I always wear glasses. They're prescription lenses, not an affectation, my eyesight is pretty bad. Because I wear them all the time, I've no idea just how bad. I've got a lot, I thought it was 50 pairs but I did a rough count, and it's closer to 30. So I'm not quite in the Elton John category yet. I wear them all the time, I wear them on stage. God, I wear them when I pee, is the reality. I can't find the toilet paper without them!

 

 

:lol: :wub: Thanks for posting Jax! I never knew about the Tom Cruise story though! :o

God, I wear them when I pee, is the reality. I can't find the toilet paper without them!

:rofl:

'Because it's dealing with your intestines, you get dreadful stomach pains. And very bad arthritic pains in your hands, your knees and your joints. Mainly it involves your food. And because you can't eat properly and also because nutrition can't be absorbed properly, either, you usually end up losing lots of weight. Thank God, I'm completely fine now'

 

 

but saying this, and according of what simes said, she's not healed!

she only found a way to stay healthy, right? :unsure:

Edited August 19, 200717 yr by wunn

:rofl:

 

omnipresent Lana :rolleyes:

'Because it's dealing with your intestines, you get dreadful stomach pains. And very bad arthritic pains in your hands, your knees and your joints. Mainly it involves your food. And because you can't eat properly and also because nutrition can't be absorbed properly, either, you usually end up losing lots of weight. Thank God, I'm completely fine now'

but saying this, and according of what simes said, she's not healed!

she only found a way to stay healthy, right? :unsure:

Crohn's is always there, there is no cure. But many people, with the right drugs, can go a long time between flares.

But it will always come back eventually :cry:

wow, thank you Jax!! Great interview

np :D

The interview is amazing!

 

But: we're going off topic people!!!!!!

RUMOUR: ALBUM TITLE:
MY VISION

:o where'd you hear this!!

If this is true...i love this title :cheer:

:o where'd you hear this!!

AFU, appartly it's from one of Ana's Fan Clubs. ?

 

I don't like it. :lol: My Vision - My December. :P

there's no way in hell that ana would do an album like 'My December' :P

there's no way in hell that ana would do an album like 'My December' :P

:lol: But what Im saying, is that it sounds to much like My December. :P

hmmmmmm true....but 'My Vision' sounds better :P

 

but i don't think it will be true

hmmmmmm true....but 'My Vision' sounds better :P

 

but i don't think it will be true

Yeah, My Vision does sound better, I would prefer it if she just didtched the My. :lol: BUT for all we know (and Im 70% sure,) it isn't true. :lol: The 30% is based on the fact that she's been writing for a while now. :o