They say good things come in small packages, and Aussie songstress Kylie Minogue is living proof of it.
As the diminutive diva turned 49 on May 28, we step back in time to look at the star’s incredible career.
She started out from humble beginnings with a breakout role playing rough and tumble Charlene in Neighbours. When the Melbourne-born beauty left the soapie in 1988 to launch her singing career no one could have predicted just how successful this little pocket rocket would become.
At first, she was cruelly dubbed “the singing budgie” but it didn’t take long for Miss Minogue to prove her naysayers wrong thanks to smash hits like Confide in Me, Where The Wild Roses Grow and On A Night Like This to name a few.
In 2004, the singer scored a Grammy for Best Dance Recording thanks to her hugely-popular track Come into My World.
Well-known for her energetic, vibrant and colourful world tours, Kylie is a force to be reckoned with.
The living legend isn’t just a talented singer – she’s starred in movies like The Moulin Rouge, San Andreas, Street Fighter and Holy Motors. She’s also had cameos on cult shows Kath And Kim and The Vicar of Dibley.
And with a whopping twelve studio albums under her sequinned headdress, there’s no stopping this powerhouse of a pop princess.
Happy birthday to the hardest-working woman in showbiz!
We are seriously loving Kylie’s voluminous hair and fierce fashion!
The star confirmed her engagement to British actor Joshua Sasse, but sadly called off the wedding early in 2017.
Kylie Minogue surprises fans with intimate performance
A fresh-faced Kylie shows off her perfect curls, beaming smile and killer Eighties fashion. Yep, superstar qualities from the beginning.
Thanks to her breakout role on Neighbours, Kylie fast became a household name. Her on-screen wedding to Jason Donovan’s character Scott commanded an audience of 20 million viewers in the UK alone. Not bad when you consider those mullets.
Kylie as a child with her younger sister Dannii Minogue.
“I don’t know what it was like for other women in his life but my love for him remains,” the singer has said of her one-time boyfriend, the late INXS rocker Michael Hutchence, who tragically died in 1997.
Miss Minogue injected so much colour into the 2000 Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Kylie Minogue’s surprise ARIAs appearance
And who could forget those gold hot pants that she rocked in the 2000 video for Spinning Around.
“I actually wasn’t confident [in them], that’s the crazy thing. I remember feeling quite self-conscious and kept wrapping a robe around me on set,” she revealed of the now-iconic shorts – which were purchased at a London flea market for a mere fifty pence.
In 2004, the starlet scored a Grammy for Best Dance Recording thanks to her hugely-popular track Come into My World.
Kylie shows off her amazing cropped hairstyle following her recovery from breast cancer at a photocall in Sydney in November 2006.
The star cuddles up to her then-boyfriend, Andres Velencoso, at the amfAR Cinema Against Aids Gala at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in 2013.
Sparkles, glitter and some serious head wear is all in a day’s work for this superstar!
“I actually shock myself by some of the things I’ve done. Once the camera starts and someone shouts ‘Action’ I go into a completely different mode. My excuse is that cameras were rolling and it was work,” Kylie has mused of her sexy back catalogue of music videos.
“When I work I punish myself, I don’t stop. When I’ve got time out my main talent is doing nothing. I’ve spent most of my life living in hotels.”
Kylie and Dannii Minogue pucker up at the 2015 Sydney Mardi Gras.
Happy birthday to the hardest-working woman in showbiz.
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