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2. EPIPHANY
In her first interview after collecting a Brit-award, battling paparazzi,
Victoria talks to Fame about her journey from being a normal town girl to a
International and Global pop star. Photographed by Jessica Pethrus
It’s like a rollercoaster. That’s how Victoria she has for it. There is no dough that she is not very in-
described the way her life was unfolding from being a terested in money, as she has four different charity ties
young town girl, to an international and global super where she notates more than half of her income to that.
star. A rollercoaster is definitely what you can call her Yes, she still has a lot of money but that is given away
life – a VMA at the age of 17, Three MTV award at 19 and divided within her family to provide for them and
and now at 21 a Brit-award –it’s certainly an excur- to make sure that they all have a normal and healthy
sion. life, with a house each and help to get into a good edu-
What a difference she must have in her life and cation for a future wealthy career and job.
it all just happened in four years. She and her family “I know that it’s not only me who is being fol-
was on the verge of moving into a one bedroom house, lowed by paparazzi, but I am not used to it.
when they where a family of six. One must tread care- I have only been famous for about five years- so I am
fully here, but the question remains: how is she coping still getting used to the idea of people
with fame and the celebrity following me. I love when
life? “I would never give up people comes up to me to
“Yes, I love it,” She ask if they can get a photo
says joyfully, carefully and what I do. I never wanted - but now it’s getting too
cautiously, “but the much, there are paparazzi
beginning was hard with all the celebrity life. I love my and I can’t go more than
the press and gossip about this hundred meters until anoth-
new girl. I love what I do and music. I have to accept that er person ask. I absolutely
I have always done. But my love my fans, but I would
intention was not to become there is sometimes like to be able to walk and
famous. I would never give up shop without needing to
what I do. I never wanted the a downside and find a way to stop every minute”. She
celebrity life. I love my music. says in a unsure yet calm
I have to accept that there is work around it...” and pleasant tone. “I need
sometimes a downside and find to keep parts of me for me,
a way to work around it. I just wanted to make music which is very hard because I am a very open person,
and to make people happy, to let them know that any- being used to talk about everything with my family.
thing can happen. I know it’s such a cliché – but you I mean, I don’t want to be one of these people who
have to follow you dreams and never give up. But I am complain about their privacy, she shrugs”.
so grateful for all the blessings and good things that “Recently I have tried to meditate, she contin-
have happened. I guess celebrity life with press and ues, but I can’t seem to get it. My mother has started
that all comes with the territory. And I definitely know to meditate, and I think that maybe that can be a way
that money cannot buy happiness because of my past. forward for me as well, but the thoughts always seem
Despite the fact of how I lived, I lived with the people to come in, in a way or another. How do you stop them
I care about the most and love the most so I was never coming in?” Don’t get me wrong, though, she says
really unhappy. So I am very, very thankful for every- gathering herself hurriedly, once more. I would never
thing that has happened the last few years. want to give up what I do; I love my music and what I
The nation really does believe how Victoria is do. I have to accept that there is sometimes a downside
in love with her music, and the passion and work around it the best I can.

3. “I need to keep parts
of me for me, which is
very hard because I am
a very open person,
being used to talk
about everything with
my family.”

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CONTENTS MARCH 2011
COVER
STORIES
30 iTunes Download:
News
100 songs you need right now
9 X-Factor Crisis
115 Exclusive interview Simon is gone and price comming in
with Victoria. She talks about 16 Britneys new single
her journey to fame
Reviews
42 Festivals and
21 Music Video. Keri Hilsons Pretty
Concerts: Girk Rock
Get tickets before
general release
26 Pussycat Kimbery on Got to
Dance
129 Can you live without 37 10 ways how to get into fame.
music? Tips and talk from Cheryl Cole
Every Week
56 Editors Letter
79 The chart
103Boigraphy of... Rihanna