{"id":782710,"date":"2026-09-26T00:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782710\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T00:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T00:44:09","slug":"katherine-jenkins-says-paper-said-it-would-trash-her-in-early-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782710\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Jenkins says paper said it would &#8216;trash her&#8217; in early career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katherine Jenkins has reflected on the &#8220;crazy&#8221; questions she was asked by the press as a young classical singer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mezzo-soprano, who has had 14 number one albums, is about to start a tour marking 25 years as one of the world&#8217;s most successful classical singers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jenkins, 46, from Neath, said she had &#8220;found her own voice&#8221; and learnt to take control of her career over the years, adding that she was often staggered by the things journalists would say to her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would often get asked &#8216;who&#8217;s looking after your children?&#8217; That&#8217;s crazy. You wouldn&#8217;t get tenors asked that question,&#8221; she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m001vj0b\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She recalled being at the Classical Brit Awards early in her career and being told by one journalist that their newspaper loved her, but would have to &#8220;trash her&#8221; sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There were loads of fake stories I read about myself ordering crazy meals and bonkers demands, and you just think, &#8216;wow, I&#8217;d never say that&#8217;. But it&#8217;s something you learn to navigate,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katherine Jenkins has reflected on the &#8220;crazy&#8221; questions she was asked by the press as a young classical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-782710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}