(big) girls just want to have fun

looks like kim kardashian isn’t the only busty celebrity once uncomfortable with her now-infamous cleavage. elle magazine’s upcoming march issue features an interview with pop star katy perry, who admits she pined for smaller cups a la kate moss during her awkward adolescent phase.

“when I was a kid…I had enormous boobs that I didn’t know what to do with,” katy says. “i wore minimizers, which were not cute. those thick-ass straps! i got made fun of for the over-the-shoulder boulder holder.”

many of us can relate to this, feeling like a stranger in our own body; it is an unfortunate rite of passage during puberty. but it’s important—especially now—for celebs to come forward and admit that they, too, weren’t comfortable with the changes they went through, that they had to adjust to their new bodies, that their new bodies gave them cause to feel embarrassed. it humanizes them, narrowing the gap between this pedestal that our culture has placed them on, making them seem less like this perfect being for us common folk to model ourselves after and more like a regular human being. more like you and me.

“all i wanted was to look like kate moss,” says katy. remember when she told harper’s bazaar that she had wanted a breast reduction? “little did I know…that these things would come in handy someday.”