Glee icon Lea Michele has claimed she was told to "get a nose job" because she "wasn't pretty enough" for the showbiz world in Hollywood.
The Funny Girl star, 36, revealed she was urged to go under the knife as a young actress so she could look like an "ideal" film and TV star.
Speaking in a new tell-all magazine interview, Lea explained: "People would tell me to get nose jobs, that I wasn't pretty enough for film and television."
Despite the temptation, Lea managed to make it in the entertainment industry without resorting to any form of surgery.
The Glee alum compared herself to her idol Barbra Streisand, who originated the lead role of Fanny Brice in 1964 — she recently wrote Lea a "complimentary" note.
She told Town & Country magazine how she was 'pushed to achieve the Hollywood ideal'.
"It was a beautiful, hand-written note that I will cherish," Michele said. "She was incredibly complimentary. It exists. It happened, and now I feel like so many dreams can come true."
"She was an icon for me in my life," she added.
It comes after she addressed rumours she can't read with a hilarious TikTok video in September.
After many years of social media jokes, the star took to her TikTok account on Sunday to make a joke about the long-running rumour.
She filmed herself pretending to be on the phone, using a soundbite from The Kardashians.
"Hi," she lip synced before someone asked: "How is it?"
"It’s amazing but wait, can you talk for a sec?", she responded. As a caption, she wrote: "Calling Jonathan [Groff] to read me the comments on my first TikTok."
Fans have been making allegations of illiteracy for years now, and the actress has been forced to bat it away over the years.
Lea let her feelings known about the fan theory back in 2018, saying it’s "the most bizarre thing that has ever happened in my life".
It all started in July 2017, after a 40-minute video was uploaded to Facebook Live that listed the supposed evidence against her.
The two claimed that because Lea had been working on Broadway from such a young age, she never had time to learn to read or write due to her acting commitments.
They also claim that Lea’s Glee and Scream Queens writer and director Ryan Murphy fed her all her lines, since if she were illiterate, she wouldn’t be able to read the scripts.
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