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Dannii Minogue

Dannii Minoogue is the cover star featured in this month’s InStyle magazine in the UK, here are some of the highlights from her in depth and frank interview from the publication.

Dannii seems genuinely surprised at how pregnancy has changed her,  “I never saw myself as having kids, so now it’s happened I’m still in shock, I’m the person who not long ago said, ‘No, we’re not having kids’. But now I’m thinking, ‘Maybe I’ll want another one?’ I’m looking at Heidi Klum – she’s on the red carpet pregnant, has a baby, then she gets pregnant again and has another baby. She manages to be a mother, run a few different companies and produce her own TV show.”

“I don’t know what the pregnancy hormone is, but I wish I could bottle it and have it forever,” she says, patting her bump. “I’m so calm and I just laugh at everything. Kris keeps saying, ‘Who stole my girlfriend? Who are you?’ I’m normally more wound up and controlling.”

On her relationship with Kris Smith who she met in 2008, Dannii says;

“On paper, it shouldn’t work. You shouldn’t meet ‘the one’ in a nightclub in Ibiza! He’s very calm, very chilled out. Whereas I’m over-motivated and doing too much. He’ll say, ‘Will you stop doing these things and calm down’. I need that around me. He says things to me all the time that make me go… ‘That’s exactly what I want to hear’. It’s a girl’s dream, he says the things you want your boyfriend to say. But he doesn’t take any s*** from me – he tells me off when I need to be told off.”

Kris appears to be the rock that was missing in Dannii’s life, he is reassuring over her insecurities during pregnancy and is protective and in control at home, “I can be vulnerable if I need to, Kris is very protective – physically and every other way. I love that. When you’re a working woman, you don’t want to come home and be the protector and be controlling things. You want the guy to do that.”

On sister Kylie, Dannii says;

“The most hilarious thing is that I don’t know anything about looking after kids. Even when I’m with my nephews, I look at my brother Brendan and at Kylie like, ‘What do I do next?’” she laughs. “Kylie is a natural with kids. The  last time she was back in Australia, we all went to our family farm. I looked out the back window and I could see her rolling across the grass with our nephew and I thought, ‘She just knows what to do’.”

Dannii has admitted to using Botox in the past, but her face shows none of the telltale signs today. There is movement in her forehead when she smiles (frequently) and she has soft laughter lines, she says;

“When I used Botox for a period, constantly, it was just to hide all the grief I was going through – with what was happening to my sister, then losing my friend. I couldn’t even look in the mirror, I was so sad. Now, I’m happy not to have Botox and I don’t mind all the expression lines”

She shrugs and grins. “For 38, I’m not doing too bad.”

Dannii cover Instyle magazine

You can read the full interview with Dannii Minogue in the August edition of InStyle magazine which is available now.