In an audio excerpt from her upcoming memoir, 'My Name Is Barbra,' Barbra Streisand recalls the pain of being called 'odd looking': 'My nose got more press than I did.'
In an audio excerpt from her upcoming memoir, My Name Is Barbra, the entertainment legend describes why she tries to avoid any and all press about herself.
"I must say, I loved those descriptions," the EGOT quips. Of being described as having "scarab eyes," Streisand says she assumed it was a compliment but admits "one of those eyes does look, well, a little cross-eyed at times." As much as she's still hurt by the insults, Streisand also "can't quite believe the praise."
Over the years, the singer and actress has learned to avoid any press about her as"half the time I don't recognize the person that they portray." She gives an example of her favorite activity, going to the dentist, where she picked up a magazine to find a story about her friend"I didn't even know my friend Neil had a brother and now I'm being used to sell his bathtub?" Streisand notes.
As for her reputation for being difficult, Streisand chalks that up to bad press, sharing an anecdote about having dinner with her friend Andrzej Bartkowiak, a cinematographer whom she had had worked with onBartkowiak had been to see a friend earlier and had told this friend that he was going to have dinner with Streisand. The man said that she was a "bitch," and insisted on this description of her even after Bartkowiak refuted it.
"For 40 years, publishers have been asking me to write my autobiography," she continues, "but I kept turning them down because I prefer to live in the present rather than dwell on the past. And the fact is, I'm scared that after six decades of people making up stories about me...I'm going to tell the truth, and nobody is going to believe it.
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