Natalie Imbruglia reveals physique dysmorphia and insecurity was behind her iconic Torn outfit

British-Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia‘s 1997 tune Torn was and is, by all accounts, a smash hit.

The Grammy-nominated music’s accompanying music video additionally turned as iconic because the audio, however the 47-year-old singer, songwriter and actress has now revealed she was grappling with physique dysmorphia and insecurities behind-the-scenes, and that is the explanation she wore the outfit she did.

The Neighbours alum informed The Unbiased she refused to put on a costume to advertise the observe as she did not need to showcase her physique form, and the clothes she in the end wore within the video – a black and gold tank prime, a gray hoodie and khaki cargo pants – was a deliberate alternative to cover her “silhouette” as a result of she felt “so physique dysmorphic and insecure.”

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“The military pants weren’t even cool military pants – they weren’t in trend or something,” Imbruglia informed the publication.

“My intention in carrying that was so that you simply could not see my silhouette, as a result of I did not need anybody to see. But it surely ended up that there was an influence in that as a result of it was like [seen as] androgyny cool,” she continued.

“But it surely actually got here from a spot of, ‘Thank god I haven’t got to put on a costume!'”

Imbruglia additionally revealed she held plenty of insecurity about her music profession and pursuing her dream put her into debt.

”I could not get a piece allow and I could not get jobs. After I signed my document deal, my UK visa was about to expire and I owed two grand to my landlord,” she mentioned.

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Imbruglia, who rose to fame within the early Nineteen Nineties taking part in Beth Brennan on cleaning soap opera Neighbours, was born in Sydney. In 2013, she turned a naturalised British citizen.

The Large Mistake singer mentioned her emotions of insecurity stemmed from being unable to reconcile her time on the present along with her profession as a musician.

“I had grown up as a stage-school child – I used to be a educated performer,” Imbruglia, who studied ballet, faucet and Highland dancing as a teen in Sydney, mentioned.

“However in some methods, that felt a bit bit tacky in comparison with what I used to be attempting to do [as an artist]. So I could not form of marry these issues in my head. And, , I used to be in debt and I would been well-known for being on this TV present.”

Imbruglia has beforehand been open in regards to the highs and lows of her decades-long profession within the highlight, recalling earlier this yr how she misplaced a few of her confidence after her fourth album, Come To Life (2009), flopped in Australia, and had its launch in the UK and United States cancelled.

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She informed The Solar in February: ”I feel I wasn’t going via the perfect interval of my profession and I feel I used to be feeling like I am not good at one thing.

“It is my confidence – no matter area you’re employed in, I do not assume any quantity of success means you are by no means going to get insecure. So I simply went via a interval the place I simply felt like, ‘I am unable to do that. I am not good at this’. And it went on for too lengthy.”

Imbruglia’s subsequent musical enterprise was 2015’s Male, which was an album of canopy songs initially achieved by male artists, but it surely wasn’t till three years later that she recorded her personal music once more.

She mentioned she went to Nashville on a writing journey, which is the place she “overcame” her insecurities, rediscovered her self-confidence and located satisfaction in her music. She then launched her album Firebird in 2021.

“I simply thought, ‘Throw me within the deep finish, give me 10 days and two periods a day,'” she continued, noting that that is when she wrote the “actually good” music When You Love Too A lot, a observe she’s “actually happy with.”

“After which it was nice as a result of to have your confidence again, when you have not had it, is the perfect reward,” she mentioned. “It is good to have that feeling and to have a very artistic burst.”

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