Noughties pop legend looks unrecognisable 21 years after smash hit, pregnancy heartbreak and coming out as bisexual
NOUGHTIES pop legend Vanessa Carlton looks unrecognisable 21 years after her smash hit A Thousand Miles.
The 42-year-old is best known for the iconic tune – which topped the charts when it was released in 2002.
Vanessa was just 21 when she released A Thousand Miles and went on to have a very successful singing career.
The tune received worldwide success, reaching number one in Australia, number three in Ireland, and number five in the US.
A Thousand Miles also placed in the top 10 for Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, France and the UK.
And the song was even used in a scene of comedy film White Chicks.
Since then Vanessa has kept on doing what she loves the most and released a number of albums.
Those include Be Not Nobody, Harmonium, Heroes & Thieves, Rabbits on the Run, Liberman and Love is an Art.
The star came out as bisexual in 2010.
While headlining Nashville Pride, Vanessa said: “I’ve never said this before, but I am a proud bisexual woman.”
Three years later the singer had an ectopic pregnancy after revealing she was expecting her first child with then-fiancé John McCauley.
The star, who has Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, previously explained that falling pregnant was a shock because of her condition.
Speaking about what happened, Vanessa previously said: “I was very in tune with what was going on and I really wanted to track it as if I was a high risk pregnancy.
“Even though I knew something was funny, the doctor couldn’t tell me it was an ectopic [pregnancy] until I was further along.
“That’s one of the tricky and frustrating things about it.”
She added: “I’m a very private person but this is, for a lot of women, it’s very personal.
“I felt it was such an unusual situation, I had never even heard of what an ectopic pregnancy was until it happened to me and I felt like I was just so desperate to hear about other women’s experiences with it.”
The couple, who tied the knot in 2013, then welcomed their daughter into the world in 2016.
Nowadays Vanessa loves to keep fans up to date with what she’s up to on Instagram.
The star boasts 100k followers on the platform and posts gardening videos online.
She also shares dance videos and has promoted her tour on her page.