Barbra Streisand has revealed the reason she has decided to quit her showbusiness career.
The singer, 81, marked the release of her new memoir, My Name is Barbra, on Tuesday and has insisted that the book marks the end of her career.
She has candidly opened up about why she has decided to leave showbusiness behind her and told how she just wants to ‘live life’.
Despite the glitz and glamour of fame and winning 10 Grammys, Barbra admitted she hasn’t had ‘much fun’ in her life and wants to have more going forwards.
In what she said will be her last interview, she told the BBC: ‘I want to live life. I want to get in my husband’s truck and just wander, hopefully with the children somewhere near us.
Revelations: Barbra Streisand has revealed the reason she has decided to quit her showbusiness career, telling how she just wants to ‘live life’
‘Life is fun for me when they come over. They love playing with the dogs and we have fun.
‘I haven’t had much fun in my life, to tell you the truth. And I want to have more fun.’
In her new memoir, Barbra has spoken about some of her famous ex-boyfriends but she confessed that if it had been up to her, she would have left them out.
Speaking to Gayle King on CBS Sunday Morning, she revealed that she was told she had to write about her A-list lovers if she hoped to move copies of her new book.
‘Listen, I didn’t want to write about any of them!’ she said emphatically after King listed her biggest conquests.
‘But you did!’ Gayle pushed back.
She placed the blame for the more salacious material on her editor, recounting: ‘My editor said, “You have to leave some blood on the page”.’
Barbra has previously dated Miami Vice’s Don Johnson, celebrity hairstylist–turned–superstar producer Jon Peters and former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
Plans: Despite the glitz and glamour of fame and winning 10 Grammys, Barbra (pictured in 2013) admitted she hasn’t had ‘much fun’ in her life and wants to have more going forwards
New chapter: The singer, 81, marked the release of her new memoir, My Name is Barbra, on Tuesday and has insisted that the book marks the end of her career
She was also married to The Long Goodbye star Elliott Gould from 1963 until their 1971 divorce, and she went on to marry her current husband James Brolin in 1998.
Barbra also revealed why she never underwent a nose job – after receiving cruel comments about her looks during her early career in entertainment.
The iconic actress spoke about her looks being likened to ‘an amiable anteater, a sour persimmon, a furious hamster’, and said she feared a nose job would damage her famous voice.
In an excerpt obtained by People, she writes about how she was urged to undergo surgery and ‘cap her teeth’: ‘I thought, Isn’t my talent enough? A nose job would hurt and be expensive. Besides, how could I trust anyone to do exactly what I wanted and no more?
The star said she ‘always liked’ the small bump on her nose and wrote surgery ‘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.
Icon: Barbra also revealed why she never underwent a nose job – after receiving cruel comments about her looks during her early career (pictured in 1968’s Funny Girl)
‘Besides, I liked long noses… the Italian actress Silvana Mangano had one, and everyone seemed to think she was beautiful.’
The star also slammed a 1964 Time magazine cover story which the writer called her a nose a ‘shrine’ which gave her face ‘the essence of hound’ – writing she’s ‘still hurt by the insults and can’t quite believe the praise.’
‘I guess when you become famous, you become public property. 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.’