Katherine Jenkins speaks and she doesn't care what you think:
"I've always faced prejudice. I'm a working-class girl from Wales. I have blonde hair and wear pretty dresses. There are a lot of people in the classical music world who absolutely loathe me. The critics slate me because I'm not what they consider the real thing. People expect a classical singer to be big and fat with Wagnerian horns on her head. Sorry, that's not me. It never was and I always knew my looks would be my advantage."
"I'm totally aware of how to market myself, totally aware of the effect of the way I look. And personally I'd rather see an attractive man playing Romeo than a big fat old man. Why can't opera singers look good? I don't get it. My aim was to make classical music popular. I get intimidated going to the opera and it makes me angry because it shouldn't be like that. But I'm doing my thing and I don't care what the critics think. I'd never let them get in my way."
"I'm totally aware of how to market myself, totally aware of the effect of the way I look. And personally I'd rather see an attractive man playing Romeo than a big fat old man. Why can't opera singers look good? I don't get it. My aim was to make classical music popular. I get intimidated going to the opera and it makes me angry because it shouldn't be like that. But I'm doing my thing and I don't care what the critics think. I'd never let them get in my way."
As a blond haired, blue-eyed, middle-class white girl in a pretty dress, I've always faced prejudice. Hallelujah, time to take it to the streets. Life can't be that bad if you can wake up every morning, hop into your Audi, drop a few thousand sterling at Harrods on clothes and furniture for your multiple houses, and still get people to pity you.
Thank you Daily Mail for the bounty of this Daily LOL laid before us.