Lea Michele Sounds Insecure About Her Looks

Lea Michele covers Harper’s Bazaar September 2011 and her cover and interview have been released after yesterday’s teaser. In her shoot, she’s trying to look like an adult and pretending to be elegant looks almost painful. This despite her claims that she’s so tiny and cute ‘I look like I’m 12.’ In her interview, she’s still whining about how people told her she wasn’t pretty enough to be a performer and that she should have gotten a nose job. I’ve literally lost count of the number of times she’s whined about exactly this. She whines in every second interview about being told she’s not pretty. And in every third interview we hear the anecdote about how she was advised to get a nose job. In case you weren’t sick of hearing it, she’s telling the same story again… Asked about what Harper’s refer to as ‘unconventional features’ Michele replies ‘How many managers told me, ‘Get a nose job. You’re not pretty enough’? But I proved them wrong.’

On her looks: ‘I’m five foot three. I don’t look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I’m 12,’ says Lea, who’s wearing a cream top she found at Anthropologie the day before and matching shorts. She gets called out for her unconventional features all the time, but Lea doesn’t let it bother her; if anything, she’s used to it. ‘How many managers told me, ‘Get a nose job. You’re not pretty enough’? But I proved them wrong.’
On GOOPY: ‘I am obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow,’ Lea says. The day they met, they were rehearsing a Chicago routine for Glee. ‘I was nervous and said, ‘I don’t think I can do that dance move.’ She said, ‘You can do it.’ She wasn’t afraid of anything. I love talking with Gwyneth. She just gives good advice. She said, ‘Don’t ever read anything about you.’’
On her eating, figure: It would give the tabloids something to write about other than saying she’s too skinny, which she chalks up to her vegetarianism and ‘the Glee diet’… ‘My schedule is insane, but I can out-eat you.’
On being new at fame: ‘People have to remember this is all new for us,’ Lea says. ‘We’re all reasonably young, except for Cory [Monteith], who’s old.’ (He’s 29.) ‘I’ve learned some lessons,’ she continues. ‘But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I’m not perfect.’