Barbra Streisand in July 2023 in Malibu.Photo:Kevin Mazur/Getty
Kevin Mazur/Getty
Barbra Streisandhas always stuck to her guns — especially when it comes to matters of her voice.
“I thought,Isn’t my talent enough?A nose job would hurt and be expensive,” she writes. “Besides, how could I trust anyone to do exactly what I wanted and no more?”
Streisand says she’s always liked the small bump on her nose, and never moved forward with any sort of surgery because she feared it could affect her legendary voice.
“It was too much of a risk. And who knew what it might do to my voice? Once a doctor told me I had a deviated septum … maybe that’s why I sound the way I do,” she writes. “Besides, I liked long noses … the Italian actress Silvana Mangano had one, and everyone seemed to think she was beautiful.”
Barbra Streisand’s famous profile in 1966.CBS Photo Archive via Getty
CBS Photo Archive via Getty
In a second excerpt, Streisand laments the fact that she feels her nose often attracted more media attention than she did, calling out a 1964Timemagazine cover story in which the writer called it a “shrine” that gave her face the “essence of hound.”
“I guess when you become famous, you become public property,” she writes. “You’re an object to be examined, photographed, analyzed, dissected … and half the time I don’t recognize the person they portray. I’ve never gotten used to it, and I try to avoid reading anything about myself.”
Elsewhere in Streisand’s revealing memoir, she shares stories from the set of movies likeYentl,The Way We WereandA Star Is Born, as well as details of her dalliances with stars likeMarlon Brando, Don Johnson and eventual husband James Brolin.
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source: people.com
