Ariana Grande’s left side covers the October issue of Marie Claire. The cover shot is just a shade too left-focused, which gives a weird effect to Ariana’s eyes. But my favorite photo is the one where Ariana just buries the right side of her face into her giant hairpiece. This girl… she is insane. It’s very common for women and men in the public eye to have a “good side” that they prefer to be shot on. But most of those people aren’t flat-out deranged about their good side to this extent. Anyway, you can read some excerpts of Ariana’s cover profile here and here are some highlights:
On early ambitions: “I was 14 years old and ready to make an R&B album. I was like, ‘Where is that Mary J. Blige collab? Where is that Natasha Bedingfield writing session? Where is my session with India.Arie? I’m ready. Let’s go.’ I wrote this song called ‘Higher,’ and the lyrics were too sexual, too mature. And my mom was like, ‘This is a great song, but damn, you’re too young for this.’”
She’s always wanted to sing real music: “I’ve always felt a connection with things that were more soulful.”
On hiding behind her Nickelodeon character: “People liked her and they accepted her and they thought that I was like her. So I used to pretend to be a little more like her than I actually was.”
On her first single, “Put Your Hearts Up,” tanking: “I was like, ‘Guys, there has to be a really distinct difference between me and my character.’ And we did that with ‘The Way.’ I dyed my hair back to brown. I made out with a rapper in the video. I made the point I wanted to make. And I was excited to do so after so many years of pretending to be somebody else in front of a lot of people.”
On being vegan: “Coming from a strict Italian family, they thought nutrients were red meat and pasta. It was like, ‘We’ve got a big day tomorrow. Be sure to have the prosciutto before you go to bed.’ It’s a commitment that I’m 100 percent dedicated to because a) of my love for animals, and b) I’m obsessed with my health because my family has a terrible history with cancer.”
On her first car accident: “I was driving to Big Sean’s house on those windy hills in L.A. It was my first time going up those hills so I was going like 12 miles per hour. This lady was whipping around the corner, and I came to a complete stop so she bumped me really hard — the whole front of my Range Rover was wrecked. She jumped out and was like, ‘Sweetie, it’s okay, it’s totally fine. What do you do?’ I was like, ‘I’m a singer.’ And she was like, ‘Oh, I think I broke my leg.’ And I was like, ‘I mean, I make jewelry.'”
Wait, did anyone else get really confused by her car accident story? I’m guessing that the lady was going the opposite direction and the lady hit Ariana’s Range Rover when Ariana had already stopped the car? If that’s what happened, it’s not Ariana’s fault. It’s not her liability. Unless that’s really not what happened, because the rest of the story really doesn’t make any sense.
Photos courtesy of Tesh/Marie Claire.
“She was like…” and “I was like…”
That’s about all I got from this. Painful to see such a consistent lack of articulation.
i wish she gets to meet Miriam Margolyes and get the likes trained out of her.
i don’t get this photoshoot. can’t see her right side, can’t see most of the dresses. it’s like one of those games: spot the 99 thing you can’t see these pictures.
Ha! Did you see her on Graham Norton? That was fantastic.
Jenn, I did not, but you bring up a good point (whether you meant to or not…lol).
Norton sits to the right of the guests (to their left, on screen) so she could keep her face turned toward him and only show her left side.
what happens when she’s on a show like the Tonight Show or Conan or any US late night talk show where the host is on HER left, and she’ll have to turn and SHOW HER RIGHT SIDE when she speaks to the host?
ugh, I can’t believe I just gave this girl and her obsession that much thought…
being vegan means being asked about your nutrition all day long, by a bunch of people that dont know sh** about their own nutrition
Absolutely.
Hear, hear!!!
This is really narrow-minded. One does NOT have to be vegan in order to have a health-conscious lifestyle or care about nutrition. The absence of animal products doesn’t give one a moral stranglehold on what constitutes nutritional living.
I agree, vegan is the not the only way to eat healthy. It really depends on what you want to get out of your diet and your definition of health.
I’d agree with that, but I don’t think that’s lisa’s point. The people who pester vegans about nutrition probably aren’t among the omnivores who know much about the subject.
that’s not at all what i said but read into it if you want
Nope she just said the people who ask her don’t know anything, not all non-vegans
That’s a loaded statement. Are you meaning to say if you’re not Vegan you don’t know about nutritional values?
And No, it doesn’t mean that. It means you chose to not eat certain things others do. I’ve seen more people only ask Vegans about their diets only to accomidate them for meals.
um no read it again
people who know a lot about nutrition are unlikely to ask vegans about their own nutrition
a lot of people dont know what nutrients are in what
many people think that protein is only in animal products. many people thin calcium is only in animal products. and if you tell someone you are vegan. you will get asked many stupid questions about it.
Lisa: in all honesty, there are an awful lot of chip & dip “vegans,” who don’t know jack about nutrition and think that eating vegan is, by default, not only healthy it is the only healthy and appropriate way of eating for everyone. I love Liz Lovely baked goods but them being vegan doesn’t make them healthy. While one can have a healthy diet eating vegan, it is not necessarily the disease preventing or curing diet some people claim it is and there a lot of very judgy vegans who not only claim as much, their discussion of nutrition makes the people with plant based diets that don’t share their holier than thou attitude or lack of knowledge cringe.
That would be very annoying!
The whole left-side obsession is ridiculous. She is a pretty girl – no need for that nonsense.
Mariah Carey was also obsessive about which side you were allowed to photograph. Maybe she picked it up from her since she seems to be modeling herself after her in other ways. Personally I don’t see any difference between the sides of her face at all
I think I might have figured it out. I googled images on her. She only has a dimple on the left side. No dimple at all on her right. Maybe she wants the dimple showing. That’s rare BTW to have such a pronounced dimple on one side of the mouth but nothing on the other. She’s cute either side. She should get over it.
her right side is actually her better side.
It hurts MY neck to look at her straining like that all the time.
She does not look good here. It looks like they deliberatly only used the worst shots of her left side.
Is either Photoshop or a Kardashian Amount of Troweled on Makeup but DAMN what is the matter with that cover???
Is like they Mixed and matched the featured of a 40 year old well kept lady with the lower half rabbitty teeth of a 12 year old???
Her head looks ginormous in that pic, it’s frightening. The angle, plus photoshop is so distorting. Leo now has some competition in the huge ominous floating head department.
She always looks so bobble-headed. The hairstyle does not help the situation.
Maybe she should date Leo and give birth to a lollipop.
Ever since ya’ll called him Stewie I’ve never been able to Unsee
That sounds painful.
It really is a shame she chooses only that hairstyle and that side of her face in photos. There were some more photos on JustJared from this shoot and they are all from that side.
There’s a photo floating around with her hair down and you can see her full face, she looks SO different! Really pretty, actually.
Damn QQ…Stewie…now I can’t under.
Who is she?
if you are not American (like me) she is the latest manufactured pop-tart came out of nowhere.
Thank you, Eleonor!
I’m American and I don’t know who she is (granted I have been living in Canada for the past 2 years now).
That sums it up perfectly.
She’s more like a children/pre-teen show character that launched a singing career. So she didn’t come “out of nowhere”. She came out of the crack womb that is Nickelodeon.
Yeah, her new songs are oh so soulful.
I found this parody of Problem and it’s really funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-koXQqD0p5s
@Charlie. Thx. That was hilarious.
The dog-pitch note thing was perfect. Because seriously, I can’t stand her voice.
Looooooove it
Wow, these pictures look ridiculous even if you have no idea that she has the obsession with her left side you would think something was up.
I am already sick of Le Grande Dame’s left side. Whenever i happen to see her music video playing on the idiot box, i have this terrible urge to hold her head still so i could see the right side properly.
Also, just noticed those red thread around her wrist. Is she into Kabbalah as well?
She grew up Catholic but just recently converted to Kabbalah.
Kabbalah is not in and of itself a religion.
Yes, I am aware it isn’t a “religion” per se. It has to do more with being spiritual. My point was, she no longer is a part of the Catholic religion and now follows the teachings of Kaballah.
kabbalah is Jewish Mysticism, the use and study of it outside the context of Judaism is some pseudo-religion cult that celebrities use to justify their self-entitlement issues
I didn’t understand the accident story either. Maybe she was driving on the “left” side of the road.
I would bet it was one of those narrow mountain roads and she was not handling the tight turns well in that Range Rover Probably took a sharp turn too wide and got into a head on collision with a car going the other way,
I can only speculate turns were taken too wide and there was a blind turn for 1 or both vehicles.
And a broken leg? Ugh. If it wasn’t broken to begin with how was this going to be proven? Her story makes no sense.
In the hills, sometimes the roads are very narrow and twisting, and people also park on the street. If two cars come from two directions, many times you have to both stop, and the clear the street one at a time. People that fly around those corners are jerks.
What I got out of it is that this ditz first tells the other driver she was a singer until the other driver expressed that she may have a broken bone. Ariana obviously saw a chance she could be liable resulting in a possible lawsuit and then tells her she makes jewelry which was her way of trying to say there’s no fortune here to be made. She’s young and doesn’t have many years of driving experience under her belt, and admitted that she had not driven this winding road before.
I got the sense that she believed the woman changed her story for money when she heard Ariana was a singer, so Ariana changed her job to jewelery maker — so it was the woman trying to be fraudulent.
I dont get her hair
Really don’t understand the b*tchness towards her on this blog, she seems harmless .
Someone even posted ” don’t understand her hair” ….. Bet they never wondered why Beyonce has never been seen in almost 15 years in the spotlight without a wig or weave on. Or why she’s worn 10 pounds of fake dried out blond hair down to her ass for most of her career.. Besides because think it’s a dance move to whip it around with her wind machines.
Just google her, there was an article about her being super bitchy towards journalists. Maybe that’s why people don’t like her. Serves her right I guess.
Girl….why so mad at Bey? Were you the casualty of one of her hair flips or something? She took the last box of blonde coloring you wanted?
At this point I might even think she has a problem with her neck.
I think those hairpieces are too heavy for her neck to hold up.
This left thing is driving me up the wall…. how does she not have a crick in her neck? If she MUST face left can she not turn her whole body left? What is wrong with the other half of her face?!??
I’m wondering if she had neck problems, I mean I would if I had my head turned like all day.
I thought the same when Bieber first came out. Remember how he used to flip his hair constantly. That had to have hurt after a while. As an actress, you’d think she’d be used to showing ALL angles of her face. As a singer, she’s decided only her left side is worthy. I have seen her right side and it’s just as pretty ! I don’t get it.
great interview with the left side of her face.
lol
*snorts coffee*
😀
The Mediterranean diet has been found to be one of the healthiest, her family’s outlying self-limited options notwithstanding.
Didn’t she say something else sort of putting down Italians in another interview? Or over-generalizing all of them? Sort of annoying.
I don’t think I read it, GNAT. I think she fancies herself a comedian in this piece.
Yeah, she was joking in the other one, too. I’m sure she didn’t mean it to offend. Would be, like many of my stories, much more interesting if I could remember wtf I was talking about.
the Italian traditional cuisine comes from “poor ingredients”, back when the meat was too expensieve and families could afford it once a week. There are a lot of recepies based on vegetables, or on how to re-use what was left the day before.
I think the meat obsession has taken off during the ’60s economic boom, when finally people could have meat every day. My mum belongs to that generation and she used to give me a lot of meat (now I am vegetarian ! ) because when she was a child she couldn’t have it.
Yeah, but the Mediterranean diet isn’t the same as the traditional Italian-American cousine, isn’t it?
My grandma is Italian-American and she is 96 years old on the Mediterranean diet. She does not ever drink soda, eat fast food, smoke, drink alcohol except wine when she was younger. She eats very little red meat and lots of pasta.
@Charlie not at all: Mediterranean diet is a genaral definition used to describe what people eat in countries like Spain, France, Italy and Greek.
Italian-American tradition is a bit different from strictly Italian diet, it is what came out with the second generation of Italian emigrants in the US.
BTW Andrea is right we tend to not eat processed food, and we are used to a lot of pasta, because back then it was the cheapest thing on the market: if you study our regional tradition you can find endless ways to cook it.
But there’s a lot more of that: vegetable soups for examples. My mum is a minestrone authority 🙂
I am from Croatia, so I know what the Mediterranean diet looks, but I didn’t know if the Italian.American food was similar to it.
Doesn’t Italy also have a different “typical” diet depending on if you are in the northern, land-locked areas vs. the southern, coastal areas? I have heard the food differs greatly in different regions, even though it is in the same country.
I mean, she is DEDICATED to that side of her face.
The right side of her face is going to write a tell all book one day. It’s going to be ATE UP with Mommy Dearest scrumptiousness.
I’m waiting to see if the right side of her face ever bitchslaps the left side of it.
Maybe like Mayim Bailik, her right side doesn’t want to see Grande either.
EDIT – or maybe the right side of her face looks like this…
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kyi0WNg40
I don’t know why people compare her to Mariah. Surely she has more in common with Barbra Streisand. Although Babs prefers the right side of her face.
I so just want to see a picture of her and the right side of her face….literally every pic is the left side…further confirming her diva-ness about only being photographed on the left side….
The thing is, maybe her left side IS her best side, but her going to such lengths to only be photographed on that side makes her pictures look so odd. Not doing herself any favors.
I think she looks like a young Cheryl Cole. But that hairstyle is just horrifying and the attitude is even worse
Sh’s so cray-cray I’m liking her.
It’s really hard to believe that she is older than 14 years old.
All I can think of when I see her (left side) is torticollis – probably not her intented effect, but there it is anyway.
oh good, she can claim her botox use is purely clinical (while using any left overs to tweak her face)
That cover photo is the worst photo of her I’ve ever seen! Who took that picture? The photographer and/or editor that chose that photo must be blind! It’s so unflattering! They did weird things to her colouring and she looks washed out and ill and the expression and hair! I know it’s a clip on pony-tail but at least brush it for the cover photo! MY GAWD.
I almost feel sorry for her. Can you imagine how exhausting it must be to be so self conscious all the time? Its like she’s never (mentally)matured beyond the age of 15. In pictures and interviews she always looks like she’s on the verge of tears. That said, I have zero patience for her diva attitude but I’m certain much of it stems from insecurities.
I feel the same. She annoys me to no end, but I feel sorry for her.
I think that she was trying to A) create an excuse for her poor behavior by saying that people mistook her for being just like her character and that she tried to be a bit like her character in order to please people. I also think it was a subtle way of either confirming her relationship with Big Sean or use him/his name as a way to keep the interest going.
Hmm. They kind of made her look cracked out on that cover photo.
Something about the contrast and the understated makeup; it’s that stark-light-of-morning-shining-on-a-slight-hangover look.
Yes. The makeup is bad here. It’s too heavy-handed and the smudged under eyeliner makes her look tired and old (not in a good way.). On a scale of Kathy Cambridge to Adele, the eyeliner is a solid LaLohan.
I was raised that nutes were N-P-K. Oh wait, wrong forum.
Haaaaahhahahahaha!!!!!!
She reminds me of a Bratz doll.
Maybe one that’s been in the microwave?
Girl just ssshhhh about your Italian roots and your insults to our eating habits. In fact, just sshhh in general.
I can’t keep up anymore, but this chick couldn’t be anymore typical and bland than she already is. When I first heard her song (I never got through the entire thing), I thought she sounded like a deaf person attempting to speak and she used to be a lot prettier.