Lauren Jauregui gets candid about their calculated images.
Lauren Jauregui is free to be whoever she wants now that Fifth Harmony is on an indefinite hiatus.
In her first move since the band announced its break, the 21-year-old singer posed in lingerie and revealed to Playboy how fake her image had to be while in the group.
“When you’re really disconnected from who you are and you’re ashamed of it, you can write and tell a story, but you can never really tell your story,” Jauregui explained of her calculated persona. “That’s what separates a lot of artists from others — the connection.”
Jauregui said that being tied to a label forces musicians to create calculated images because they’re meant to have mass appeal.
“That’s why you see so many people dying inside,” she said. “Imagine the shame and insecurity.”
Fifth Harmony got together in 2012 — Jauregui was just 16 at the time — after each member participated on “The X-Factor.”
“We tried our best to be ourselves, [but] we were also adolescents,” Jauregui said, “so you have to think about who you were at that age and being thrown in front of cameras.”
