Mon, 08 January 2007 12:00:00 ET
Billie Piper said that being a teen singer, her life was over by the time she's 18 and the feeling was too much to live with.
Billie Piper felt her life was over by the time she turned 18.
The singer-turned-actress - who enjoyed pop success as a teenager with
'Because We Want To' - says being a "vain" washed-up pop star proved almost
too much to live with.
She told Stella magazine: "I used to cry myself to sleep every night -
crying about the mess I'd made of my life. I also realised that I'd become
what I most despised. I was vain and controlling and I had this terrible
eating disorder. It all made me feel like s**t.
"I couldn't take care of myself."
Billie says she constantly battled with self-confidence and never felt good
enough to achieve chart success.
She revealed: "I was a jumped-up young girl, full of neuroses and a bit mad.
And all the time I had these voices of self-doubt niggling away in my head
telling me that I couldn't hack it, that I didn't have the voice of Mariah
Carey and that I had no business pretending to be a musician."
Billie admits she has only recently built up her self-esteem.
She said: "For a long time I felt like I was a pawn in other people's games,
everything was plotted out for me and basically I just did what I was told.
"It's only recently that I've stopped feeling like a complete charlatan and
sorted myself out and found my self-esteem again."
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