Lea Michele covers the November issue of Marie Claire to promote Scream Queens, which is apparently a moderate hit in its first few weeks. Lea recently told Women’s Health that she refuses to actually scream for the show. She and Ryan Murphy agreed that she’d lay down two screams in a sound booth, and they just dub it in every time her character gets scared. Lea says screaming on a regular basis will ruin her singing voice, but “they say I do a really good scream face without having to scream.” How odd, but I guess it makes sense. Lea says Ariana Grande has the same agreement.
In this Marie Claire interview, Lea hints at her upcoming second album, which will reportedly be a departure from her first one. I think the first album was all about Cory Monteith, so it was sad, and Lea wants to make a more upbeat set of tracks. Here are some excerpts, and the part about her favorite body part is kind of hilarious:
On moving forward after the death of Cory Monteith: “Getting to the other side takes a lot of work. All you can do is get to the other side. It’s a struggle. When you do, there is happiness there. It’s important to me to keep private some of that process with how I got here. But I am here, I am good, and I am very grateful for that.”
On new boyfriend Matthew Paetz: “Matthew is a good cook. Food, for me, was always about love and connecting.'”
On her new life: “The new house might be a little baller. I’ve earned it.”
On her favorite body part: “I love my butt. It is a showstopper.”
On being famous: “Everybody thinks you’re a star with roses being dropped at your feet. You have to take some f***ing punches. Now I have my groove … I am much more aware. I also don’t care as much. I am very content with me.”
[From Marie Claire]
Have you ever heard anyone else call their tush a “showstopper“? Lea loves her tush so much that she constantly posts photos of it all the time. Good for her, I guess. She has some serious self-esteem, and it’s kind of hilarious because she’s known for pose-harding like crazy. Many people would love to have that level of self-confidence, which is fine. Lea is annoying but ultimately harmless.
Photos courtesy of Marie Claire & Fame/Flynet
Good for her for loving a part of her body that much.
I’m learning to do so myself, and it’s hard, as a grown up, to get past the habit of only seeing my flaws.
Anyway… I get the whole screaming agreement. If I scream too much my throat hurts like hell, i can’t imagine what it would do for a singer.
This is kind of silly, but sometimes when I’m feeling negative about myself, I try to look at my body the way I would look at a friend’s. I find I’m much kinder and less critical. It’s still not perfect, but it puts it into better perspective – everyone else isn’t picking me apart the way I do myself at times.
Good one… I’ll try that. That sounds effective!!!
But yes, nobody is better at picking ourselves apart ….than ourselves.
That Isn’t silly at all! It’s an actual exercise used in therapy to help with low self-esteem and it works. I do it too.
Such a great idea GoodNames, we tend to be so critical of ourselves and yet when our friends, or people we love, do the same we’re the first to jump and tell them how amazing they are and to stop it.
Not silly! I do something similar in that I try to pull back and talk to myself/view myself as I would want my (non-existent) daughter to view herself.
Yes, it is a showstopper. The show literally stopped, and everyone went home in disgust.
I totally agree with this. We are our worst critic… yet it’s so easy to see the positives in our friends or people we admire. I like to believe loving and accepting yourself is a life-long process & journey.. even in my 20’s right now I’m in a total different “self acceptance” stage than I was in my teens.. it just takes time
“I am very content with me.”
NO WAY?!
*falls off chair in shock*
I really do believe that hers and Corey’s relationship was over waaaay before he died.
It might but that doesn’t mean she was not affected by his death.
Absolutely – but i think it’s quite sad how she was pushing the ‘boyfriend who was the love of my life died’ narrative. Why not just come out with the truth you know? I admire her hustle but this chick is ruthless.
Me too. I’m not even sure it was ever real.
I think she’s so talented, her songs on Glee were always my favorites (and I couldn’t STAND Kurt’s).
I love Kurt he is my fave, why couldn’t you stand his songs?
it must be a hard situation when so many peope expect you to be heart broken. you cant really feel personal grief because its already decided how you must act.
Agree completely. I cannot stand this chick but there’s no ideal way to handle a situation as tragic as the death of a loved one.
Lea milked the heartbreak deal. She’d already split with Corey & had been on vacay with her new guy. Yes, it’s always sad to lose a friend or ex, but Lea played this like Mary Todd Lincoln.
I wondered about that, but Cory’s mother was openly scathing about people seeking to capitalise on his death, and as far as I know she’s always been very kind about Lea, which made me doubt the rumours were true. It isn’t like his mother has motive to cover for her – certainly not now.
“annoying but ultimately harmless.”
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up for me. I think she sees herself as more famous than she actually is, but still harmless.
+1 exactly
I forgot about her until Scream Queens came out. She’s been less in our faces recently, no? I forgot that I had found her annoying until this interview, which isn’t really annoying at all. Eh.
She is a gigantic ego surrounded by a thin layer of Lea Michele.
With that showstopper of a tush she can now take all the seats and get over herself.
Can you imagine if Goop said something like that??
We would be ripping the bitch in half.
^this
Goop did say that! A while back she said “her friends” think she has the butt of a 20 year old stripper. And then we’re all like “yeah, no, sit down b*ch”. LOL.
Good for her. We should love our good features since we probably despair of some others that we have. What I know her for is that great singing voice she has.
I can’t with this one.
She’s unrecognisable on that cover!
She said her butt is a show stopper.
I said bitch where???
Really can’t stand her and I’m not sure why. Maybe because I feel like she comes across exactly like her character Rachel Berry but less likable. Wasn’t that her character’s name on Glee? I stopped watching it after Season 2. She seems like a person who wouldn’t let anything get in the way of her ambition.
I think she’s really pretty, talented and confident. But she tries so very hard. She’s just does not have that “cool” sexiness because there’s so much visible effort. I wish she would take it down a few notches in interviews/photos, I think she would get the look she’s going for if she threw in a little “I don’t give a %$/@” attitude.
Try-hard. And with this tush comment, I think she falls in the same category of the instagram generation: insecure, but narcissistic. She actually gives me the same vibe of Demi Lovato: awkward girl who wants to be sexy.
Completely agree. I don’t follow her enough to be certain, but I always feel that people who act like her just appear confident but underneath are a gigantic ball of insecurities.
Totally agree. I’ve never seen an episode of Glee or Scream Queens, but something about this chick rubs me the wrong way. I was sure that she’d disappear into oblivion after Glee ended. 😓😓 here’s to another 23 minutes.
Ditto! While I’m all for feeling good about yourself, being a braggart or conceited is extremely unattractive.
I definitely think it’s good to feel love for your body. I’m just not sure I think it’s good to refer to your butt being a show stopper and constantly post pictures of it. I guess I will never get used to the way people brag now – I was just brought up so differently. Not that we should go back to pretending you never see anything pretty about yourself, that was silly, too, but I don’t know – isn’t there a middle ground? It just makes me cringe.
I admit to taking some slightly provocative photos for the boyfriend and you know, these are still up to Prude Code (Kitten-style) but I would NEVER post a pic of myself in a bikini, or even a pic of any body part on social media.
…and I’m proud of my body. But the desperate need to show off and the constant seeking of validation from strangers is so embarrassing to me…and crass, really. Low-class sh*t IMO.
I think it’s sweet that you send bf pretty pictures! That’s totally different. And you should be proud of your body! You work really hard to be healthy and it shows. But you get what I’m saying – I adore my nephew, but he has been posting gym photos – he has gotten into really good shape, and I’m happy for him and glad he feels good about himself. I just wish he didn’t feel the need to get “likes” and compliments about it on Facebook. It makes me cringe.
I agree with you Kitten. There is confidence, and actually quiet confidence is my preference, but I definitely see a lot of fishing for compliments/need for reassurance with social media and the younger generations. I’m embarrassed for them.
When one looks at a gym selfie, one is painfully reminded of the fact that the person who took said gym selfie took it in public.
While looking in a mirror.
And flexing 🙁
Yes! To the mirror/flexing/cringing. Whhhyyyyy???
Kitten, yes! And then they whine about “body shaming” when anyone says anything negative!
Don’t put it out there, and no one can say anything! You’re not only going to get positive comments, even Gisele, Heidi Klum and Karlie Kloss get picked on!
I know. I periodically sweep through my kids’ Instagrams and the posts of so many of their female teenage classmates/friends just make my heart hurt sometimes, with their million selfies and constant need for validation. The social media landscape can be so toxic and unhealthy.
Scary and sad stuff.
I watched the first two episodes of Scream Queens and would watch it more for Jamie Lee Curtis… But I don’t like Emma Roberts and the show to me is kind of boring…
Lea Michelle seemed very secondary as a character. Maybe she has more of a role later.
I just watched the third episode last night. I’m not sure I’m going to continue. I’d like to like it, but I’m just not into it.
I can’t stand her she’s too desperate and posey like Jlo.
It’s a good thing to love your body and yourself, we are sometimes to hard on ourselves. But there is a difference from loving yourself and thinking you are the bees knees.
yass. I don’t like her either i hope she would disappear. Maybe I am minority but I don’t think she really cared that much.about her ex that died but she had to play devastated because of public. She called him the love of her life but she was in love with a new dude within a year. What? That’s my opinion though. She always seems try hard
I can’t with this person. I find her obnoxious.
She’s not my favorite person but it’s nice hearing someone complimenting themselves instead of complaining about their body. Why are we okay with the latter and not the former? I once made a side note comment here that I thought I had a beautiful face and I was just ripped to shreds.
I think Amy Schumer perfectly summarised this very issue in this skit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzlvDV3mpZw
I am not Lea’s fan, in fact I find her quite annoying, but if she feels good about herself, she shouldn’t be ripped apart for this.
If, say, John Hamm said he loved his own ass, we wouldn’t have anything to say about that.
Nah, I don’t think this is a gender-specific thing. I hate it when people brag, unless it’s done in a joking/clever way.
If Jon Hamm called his d*ck a “showstopper” for instance, I would give him even more snark than I’m giving Lea.
I just find self-congratulatory behavior incredibly tacky.
*shrugs*
I have a great ass and legs, but I can’t see myself telling that to someone who would publish it…..
Yes, I said it now, but none of you know who I am!
lmao . That’s true. Probably her bf told her that and she took it to heart. I don’t see her butt being a show stopper looks to me like any other that is in good physical shape and in hollywood there are plenty better ones . She is full of herself
Have never, ever heard the term ‘showstopper’ as someone referred to their own butt. All I could picture was someone farting so loudly that everything in the theatre came to a complete standstill. Or a giant 3-D peach butt on stage, high-kicking with a gold glitter top hat during the finale of A Chorus Line.
You are certainly imaginative. If that image doesn’t haunt my dreams for a month, Ill be lucky.
Welcome to my world.
It’s a good thing she’s such a fan of her tush, considering she’s managed to get her head pretty far up there.
Awesome 🙂
I’ve never watched any of the t.v. shows she’s on – so maybe that’s influencing my reaction – but I don’t take the comment about her tush all that seriously. For example (and I’m stereotyping, I know, but to illustrate where I’m coming from): I can easily imagine a scene where two flamboyant gay guys are chatting it up and one says to the other, “Let me tell you something right now, this ass is a showstopper!” I can’t help thinking that her comment was made in the same spirit of B.S. and sass.
She has a Butterface!!!
I like her more than Kate Winslet. Lea Michele and Kate Winslet are as self-satisfied yet insecure as one another, but LM is open about who she is and what she thinks, while KW is a humble-bragger black belt.
I wonder what Jessica thinks of all this.
https://youtu.be/RquMF6xk-r4