Barbra Streisand is an undisputed legend of music and cinema. The artist’s over 60-year career has resulted in eight Grammy Awards out of 43 nominations, two non-competitive Grammy Legend Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. In addition, in 1969, the artist won an Oscar for best actress in a leading role for her role in “Funny Girl”. The actress was nominated for the award two more times.
Barbra Streisand released a biography. He claims he no longer has to give interviews
The artist’s turbulent private and professional life resulted in numerous memories that appeared on the pages of Streisand’s biography titled “My name is Barbra”. The 81-year-old star announced the book as an honest story about her life, which is intended to deal with the rumors repeated about the artist over the years.
In her biography, the actress talked not only about her numerous successes, but also about the difficult moments she had to endure to reach the top. Barbra Streisand is the daughter of Americans of Jewish origin, her father died when she was just over a year old. Due to the absence of one parent, the artist grew up in poverty and longing for a complete family. The attitude of the actress’ mother, whom Streisand describes as cold and distant, did not help.
Streisand paid dearly for fame. Insults, sexism and humiliation
At the age of only 16, the artist left her family home and took up her first jobs, such as a babysitter, theater usher, or receptionist. Streisand believed in her singing talent when she was only five years old. From then on, she believed that she would be popular one day. “I earned $4.50 and always covered my face because I believed that one day I would be famous and I didn’t want people to remember that the person on the screen once showed them where to sit,” the website Wysokie Obcasy quotes the content of the biography.
The singer’s first success came in 1960, when she sang “A Sleepin’ Bee” in a gay bar. She received a standing ovation and an offer to perform in other places. Her career gained momentum, but she quickly had to face the assessment of not only her skills, but also her appearance. When the artist played the role of Fanny Brice in the play “Funny Girl”, her life changed forever, but she paid a high price for it.
Streisand shared the stage with Charlie Chaplin’s son, who fell in love with the artist. He didn’t take rejection very well; the actress admitted in her biography that he was so cruel to her that she didn’t want to perform for the next 20 years. The ubiquitous sexist comments and outrageous comparisons didn’t help either.
“Barbra Streisand represents the triumph of aura over appearance. Her nose is too long, her breasts are too small and her hips are too wide,” Newsweek wrote about the artist in 1966. The media constantly pointed out elements of her beauty that deviated from the beauty canon. People wrote about her nose and compared the actress to a gazelle and an anteater. The insults ended when she became a huge success and won an Oscar, but the cruel words remain in her mind to this day.
Source: Gazeta
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