Barbra Streisand: Insulting comments about my ‘odd-looking’ face ‘hurt’

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audio excerpt from her upcoming memoir “My Name Is Barbra,” Streisand detailed how she was mockingly labeled when she first began her Hollywood career in the early 1960s.Among the names she was called were “an amiable anteater, a sour persimmon, a furious hamster, a myopic gazelle, and a seasick ferret.”Despite the “Yentl” star feeling somewhat flattered by the words, she is “still kinda hurt by the insults” years later.When she appeared in the hit 1964 Broadway musical “Funny Girl,” her star quality rose to new heights and the media went from describing her as a weird animal to more statuesque monikers like “Babylonian queen” with a “pharaonic profile.”“I must say, I loved those descriptions,” she joked in her book, adding that she was told she had “scarab eyes.” While Streisand believed the phrase was a flattering remark at first, she revealed that “one of those eyes does look, well, a little cross-eyed at times.” “[I] can’t quite believe the praise,” she penned. “For 40 years, publishers have been asking me to write my autobiography.” Streisand said: “But I kept turning them down because I prefer to live in the present rather than dwell on the past.”The “Mirror Has Two Faces” actress went on: “And the fact is, I’m scared that after six decades of people making up stories about me…I’m going to tell the truth, and nobody is going to believe it.”Elsewhere in her book, Streisand divulged that late actor Marlon Brando wanted to have intimate relations with her while he was married to his wife, Tarita Teriipaia.In the portion obtained by Vanity Fair, the “Godfather” actor encountered the Oscar winner at a party in 1966 and told her, “I’d like to f–k you.” Teriipaia was also at the event and was in the room next to the young.