As Sabrina Carpenter’s horizons grow with her fame, her radius is getting smaller and smaller.
The Tears hitmaker, 26, has opened up about not being able to visit many places in her home turf of Los Angeles comfortably anymore, due to her fame.
‘I don’t know many spots in LA. where I feel like I can just go freely without getting assaulted,’ she admitted in a cover story interview with Vogue Italia.
‘I used to go to Topanga Canyon a lot, which was a very dear, dear place for me,’ she said of the park, which has since burned down after the devastating LA wildfires.
Having raised some eyebrows with her suggestive Man’s Best Friend artwork, Sabrina also talked about her complicated relationship with men.
‘Correct me if I’m wrong, I’ve only been on Earth for 26 years, but I feel like we’ve always kind of had to train them,’ she said.
‘I do think that men have been a super entertaining species to watch,’ she continues. ‘In positive and negative ways. I feel really adored and inspired and loved by some of them… and really confused and attacked and ridiculed by others.’
Alongside the interview, Sabrina posed for a shoot with Steven Maisel, which was inspired by ‘German girls in the 60s’ with big hair and dramatic, smoky eyes, giving the pictures a moody, glamorous edge.
In the cover, she poses with a big-haired blow-dry and a prim T-shirt jumper, while black and white pictures see her reclined on the floor in slinky outfits.
Man’s Best Friend’s artwork was released to controversy earlier this year, with some people accusing Sabrina of setting feminism back with the racy cover, showing Sabrina kneeling in front of a man and stroking his leg as he yanks her hair upwards.
A second picture included a zoomed-in photo of a dog wearing a tag adorned with ‘Man’s Best Friend’.
Sabrina, who also regularly kills men in her music videos, addressed the controversy recently.
‘It’s so funny thinking about it now,’ she said on Apple Music’s Zane Lowe Show. ‘Because I wanted a man playing with my hair and I actually used maybe five different men to take that photo because none of them could play with my hair.
‘They were all pulling it. They were all nervous to be holding my hair.’
Sabrina continued: ‘So the grip looked like they were yanking it, and the whole purpose of the photo was supposed to be cheeky and airy and playful of like, I got myself here, here I am, this is someone I love but also someone that emotionally can be doing a lot with my heart and doing a lot with my emotions.’
The final chosen photo was ‘so special’ as it was the ‘only shot’ on film that had every aspect perfectly lined up.
‘[It] had that lighting the way that I wanted it with this facial expression where I’m clearly in control even though I’m on all fours,’ Sabrina shared. ‘And to me it was just perfect.’
Man’s Best Friend, which Metro gave four stars, dropped and landed straight on the UK’s Official Album Chart, as Tears, Manchild, and When Did You Get Hot? exploded on Spotify and TikTok.
Many fans suspected some songs and lyrics in Sabrina’s new album are directed at her ex-boyfriend Barry Keoghan, who even appeared in her Please Please Please music video last year.
She captioned a post announcing Manchild, ‘This one’s about you!!’ along with details about the song’s release.
Rumours of cheating and hard partying swirled around the Irish actor in the wake of their December 2024 split, though nothing was ever confirmed.
Performing in Barry’s hometown of Dublin, Ireland, back in March, Sabrina spoke to the crowd at Dublin’s 3Arena, saying that Irish boys are ‘hard work,’ drawing a knowing laugh from the crowd.
One source previously claimed to The Sun that Sabrina and Barry broke up because she was ‘fed up’ with Barry’s behaviour when drunk.
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