Lily Allen: I would rather look like Kate Moss

Lily Allen has revealed that she would would rather look like Kate Moss.

Giving a candid interview to ELLE, the singer, 28, said: “Of course I’d rather look like Kate Moss than look like myself.”

“I wish I didn’t feel like that, and I think the reason we feel like that is because of the imagery we’re fed all the time.”

The pair were seen partying in St. Tropez in 2009 but speculation about a rift in Allen’s friendship with the 40-year-old model arose when she did not invite Moss to her 2011 wedding to Sam Cooper.

In the interview, Allen, who was famous for donning prom dresses and trainers, said she was concerned about how woman are viewed: “Women are still expected, in some weird way, to kind of sit there and look pretty, and not talk.”

The mother-of-two also spoke to ELLE about feminism: “So often, when women say things that are outspoken, or as I call it just saying things, people jump on that and try to make us look stupid for having an opinion. That doesn’t happen with men. Come on, we’ve done feminism. People are award of it. Can it just happen now?”

She said some of the feedback she had received about music was upsetting: “I understand people will have their point of view and will interpret things in the way they want to... But it was upsetting to get some of that feedback.”

Allen rose to fame in 2006 with her hit single Smile. After a run of successful songs including collaborations with producer Mark Ronson and rapper Professor Green, Allen went on music hiatus in 2010.

In 2012, she started recording her third studio album. Her voice was memorably heard in the John Lewis 2013 Christmas advert, where she sang a cover of Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know. Allen’s new single Hard Out Here was released in November 2013.

Read the full interview with photos in the March issue of ELLE.