London 11/26/2010 9:54:38 AM
News / Entertainment

Duffy doesn’t feel any different since she became famous.

The ‘Mercy’ singer always thought if she achieved her dream of becoming a pop star it would change her personality, but she insists she is still the same girl who grew up in the small town of Nefyn in Wales.

The blonde starlet – who achieved global fame with the release of her critically acclaimed debt LP ‘Rockferry’ in 2008 - said: “It’s weird because I don’t really feel any different since I became famous. I remember being in the bath one night and calling my mum, and saying, ‘When you reach a goal you always think you’ll feel different but the truth is you don’t.’ I remember saying, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to feel elevated, famous, special?’ But you don’t, I’ve tried pretending but you don’t.”

The 26-year-old musician claims the thing that has changed is the way other people treat her.

Since she became famous, Duffy says she is often asked how she is coping as a pop star, something which annoys her.

She added to Stylist magazine: “In Britain I constantly seem to attract this sorrowfulness, ‘Is it difficult? Is it hard? How are you coping?’ … I think it’s because I’m blonde, young and from a small town … people want to protect me from the success I’ve achieved.”