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‘I cried about my breast cancer – but I didn’t throw a pity party’: Anastacia on hardship, hits and humour

Twenty-five years after her debut album, the star is still loving life as a ‘continual working girl’. She talks about menopause, mastectomy and her bizarre failure to crack her native America

Pinging between her home town of Chicago, New York (where her father lived and the family later moved) and her grandpa in Florida was Anastacia’s “version of understanding the world”. You would think that starting later would make her more worldly, but Anastacia says: “Even though I was much older than everyone thought, I had a very innocent, naive approach to the industry.” She had never travelled overseas or worn designer clothes before. The reasoning was: “If I’m in Beverly Hills, paying a gazillion dollars to have a 90210 address, what about going somewhere you can actually save some money?” She is not currently writing an album but there is talk of a single, and a possible tour extension, so what does she mean “retirement”?

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