'I was the girl from Home And Away who's Kylie's sister': Dannii Minogue reveals how she coped with growing up in the shadow of her pop star sibling
Dannii Minogue has revealed how she has struggled with constant comparisons to her older sister, pop star Kylie Minogue.
In an interview with News Corp on Monday, the singer, 49, says she was seen as just 'Kylie's sister' while she was trying to forge her own music career in the United Kingdom in the 1990s.
In Australia, Dannii had been a star for many years thanks to her stint on popular variety show Young Talent Time, but in the UK, she was better known for her soap opera career and being the younger sibling of superstar Kylie, 53.
Hard: Dannii Minogue has revealed how she struggled with constant comparisons to her older pop star sister, Kylie Minogue. Pictured together in 2015
'It was crazy. My sister was already there and she'd been in Neighbours, she'd released a lot of music already. It was absolute hysteria.
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'I came from Australia, where I grew up on TV, and everybody knew me from Young Talent Time, and then I went to London and then I was the girl from Home And Away who's Kylie's sister.
'And I had a good five years of that: every introduction was, "You're Kylie's sister."'
Trying: The singer, 49, says she was seen as 'Kylie's sister' while she was trying to forge her own music career in the United Kingdom in the 1990s. 'I had a good five years of that: every introduction was, "You're Kylie's sister,"' she said. Pictured in 1990
Dannii, who has since become a pop star in her own right, said it was a 'weird flip and reverse' because in Australia, Kylie was known as 'Dannii's sister'.
She added; 'The hardest question was people would always say, "Oh, so you're doing music now, because your sister does it?" And I said, "No, I've been singing professionally since I was 10 years old, but great. Cool."'
Speaking on Anh's Brush with Fame in 2019, Dannii said that if it wasn't for her 'feisty character', the comparisons would have negatively affected her mental health.
Changes: 'I came from Australia, where I grew up on TV, and everybody knew me from Young Talent Time, and then I went to London and then I was the girl from Home And Away who's Kylie's sister,' Dannii said. Pictured together in 2000
'It's so annoying. It's really annoying. We're a tight family and we support each other,' she said.
'I remember there was a lot of stuff written about my weight and comparing my size and physique to my sister.'
'The general crux of it was, "Kylie is this perfect human being and I'm not,"' the TV presenter added.
Fame: Dannii, who has since become a pop star in her own right, said it was a 'weird flip and reverse' because in Australia, Kylie was known as 'Dannii's sister'. Pictured performing together on Young Talent Time in the 1980s
Dannii said that her strong sense of self kept the gossip from causing her serious harm.
'I guess I'm lucky that I was quite a feisty character, I didn't have a problem with it, but everyone else had a problem with it,' she said.
'I probably would have had some kind of eating disorder, some really bad mental issues dealing with it,' she continued. 'I'm just glad that I'm a strong person... you've got to have a thick skin.'
Standing on her own: Speaking on Anh's Brush with Fame in 2019, Dannii said that if it wasn't for her 'feisty character', the comparisons would have negatively affected her mental health
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