Barbra Streisand opened up about her relationship with her mother, ex-husband Elliot Gould and more in her memoir ‘My Name Is Barbra’
Barbra Streisand didn’t hold back while writing her long-awaited memoir My Name Is Barbra.
“I wish I could say none of this affected me, but it did,” she penned. “Even after all these years, I'm still hurt by the insults and can’t quite believe the praise.”While Barbra knew she was talented, she revealed that her mom warned her that she might not find success since she “didn’t look like those other girls in the movies.”
“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?” “The news was a shock. Elliott and I had lived together since I was nineteen, and now I was about to turn twenty-four,” she shared. “For years I had honestly thought there was something wrong with me, because I had never gotten pregnant. Having a baby seemed like something for other women, not for me.”
After being cast, Barbra said she wanted to learn more about who her character, Fanny Brice, was in order to better portray her on stage.
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