Uk singer, Estelle is burning up the charts with her latest single “Thankyou” which talks that about Estelle heartache and recent break-up with her “American Boy”. Estelle reveals herself even more in the April cover of Vibe Vixen. In the mag Estelle dishes all from her love to music, to her addictive shoe fetish, embracing her slim petite, her desire to marry one day.
Check out pics and excerpts from the shoot below:
On Being Skinny All Of Her Life:
I always thought I was too skinny. And then I started getting boobs and I stayed skinny. I got a butt and I stayed skinny. And then I could fit all the couture clothes and I stayed skinny. It was great!” She chuckles. “Growing up skinny, you get called a rake, a mop. It’s as much as the chubby girls. I got some shape and I was like, Okay I’ll rock out with it.
On Her Recent Break-up Which Inspired Her New Album
“It wasn’t really a choice. It was happening while I was recording the album, unbeknownst to me. I ended up writing about somebody I’d break up with at the very end of recording. I kind of got the balls to do it right at the end. An epiphany hit one day coming back from the “Break My Heart” video shoot. I was like, “I deserve better.” And that was it. And then I listened to the album and I’m going into it, like, this really feels like the story of my breaking up with this guy”
On The Biggest Issue In Her Previous Relationship:
“I didn’t feel good. I didn’t wake up in the morning smiling. In a relationship when that starts to happen, you might want to push them while you’re in it. They say through thick and thin, but when it’s always thick and it’s always bad and it’s always negative, it’s never really going to turn into something. You know it’s going to be wrong but you’re like, no I want to stick around. It’s a waste of your life.”
On Her Success Of Her New Single “Thank You‘:
“I was surprised because in my head it hasn’t been out that long. But when I did the tour this entire month, people have been singing it word for word, the entire room, men and women. That surprises the hell out of me. That makes me cry now, where before it would be the song would make me cry. That reaction makes me cry, like, ‘Oh my God, so we’re all in this together? I’m not crazy?’ It kind of affirms and reassures me of my choice.”
On If She’d Spoken To Her Ex-boo Since The Song’s Debut:
He loved the song. I sung it, so he heard it and then two weeks later I broke up with him. So he had heard it and liked it. He was like, “This is a beautiful song” and didn’t think it was going to be the song that helped me through therapy, through his situation. Life is funny. It will throw you a curve ball when you think everything is great. It really will.
On Whether She’d Like To Reconcile With Her Ex: [Thank You” guy]
“Yeah. Minus the ring. When you’re ready to really holler, I guess yes… When you’re serious, let me know. And that was part of the thing. I tried to always look at us and he would only see him. And even when he tried to look at us, he could still only see him. So it was kind of like, we ain’t on the same path. We’re not on the same page.”
On Being Famous While In A Relationship:
“You’re carrying some kind of weight whichever way it goes, you know? If they don’t understand your life, they look at you like you’re you. You should be happy. And when they get into your life and they see you, they’re like, Well, I did all of this for you that no one else sees. So you can’t win either way. You’re going to pay for it for who you are somehow. I won’t complain. I love my life, I love my job, I love what the hell I do, and I love who I am. This is my existence. This is what I do. But it’s a tough thing to have to deal with always having that hung over your head, that feeling of well, he might throw that at me that he cooked for me today, like that’s not standard. I didn’t cook for him the entire week because, well, I’m me and I should be lucky that somebody wants to do that for me.”
On Her Shoe Fetish and Favorite Shoe:
“Someone told me I need an intervention….At the moment, sky-high stiletto wedges or platforms. I’m all about that. I’m short; I’m like 5’5, 5’6 or something. I look short, too. People always think I’m taller than I really am so I’m always in heels. Put me in the sky; let’s go.”
On The comparison of Her And Adele With The Heartbreak Theme, And If She Thinks Adele has learned From It:
“I don’t think we are even on the same page as far as music. She does what she does. I do what I do. I’m just happy we’re both here releasing records in a climate that doesn’t let you release records after the first album. I’m just happy I get my third album, official fourth, but third album, second worldwide.”
In Whether She Believes In Marriage:
“Absolutely do.”
On Getting Married Someday:
“Hell yes! I would be a fantastic wife. [Laughs]”
