She’s gone from Young Talent Time to international star, now she’s ready to tell it like it is about sister Kylie, plastic surgery, and the women who’ve made her life hell.
Dannii Minogue has lifted the lid on her personal life, penning a no-holds-barred autobiography. In the book, which hit UK stores last week, she spills the beans on her rivalry with big sister Kylie and her bitter relationship with former mother-in-law the late Lady Sonia McMahon. Dannii’s candid confessions have catapulted the new mum back into the headlines and reignited old feuds, especially with Sharon Osbourne.
Rivalry with Kylie
“I can tell you it’s not easy to be publicly pitted against someone you love and admire,” Dannii writes, revealing that her rivalry with Kylie hit fever pitch while she was struggling with both her career and her 1995 divorce to Nip/Tuck star Julian McMahon.
“I was struggling with the stark realisation that nobody wanted me – not my record company, not my husband, and definitely not the public. “The truth of the matter is I never felt like I was competing with my sister. Although I got tired of the constant comparisons and doing interview after interview in which I’d be asked more questions about her than myself, it wasn’t because I hate her and felt jealousy towards her. It was the opposite. The truth is, I am and always have been so very proud of Kylie, and she is of me.”
Plastic surgery
Despite constant rumours of endless surgery, Dannii, 38, claims that she has only ever gone under the knife for a breast enhancement. She says she surprised her record producer and manager by showing them off shortly before presenting Top Of The Pops in 1997.
“He [Terry Ronald] asked me, ‘Where exactly did they come from?’ He was pointing directly at my breasts. “‘Oh, these!’ I laughed, ‘They are brand new, darling, and they feel really natural. Do you wanna meet the girls and have a feel?’ “Terry nodded, slowly, with a hint of fear in his eyes, and I pulled open my shirt. Then he put his hands gingerly on my bare breasts and smiled. “‘They’re absolutely lovely,’ he said, grinning.
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