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Creativity Quote by Kylie Minogue

"I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways"

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There is something wonderfully unglamorous about a pop icon reaching for the least lyrical phrasing imaginable: "where you open your legs sideways". Kylie Minogue, whose brand has long been engineered around poise, sparkle, and controlled desire, punctures that sheen with the blunt mechanics of a body doing a trick. The joke is in the over-explanation. Everyone knows what splits are; she insists on clarifying anyway, as if preempting the ways celebrity speech gets overread, sexualized, or turned into a soundbite.

The intent feels disarming and deeply human: a small boast immediately softened by the past tense. "I used to be able to" quietly turns the feat into a memento, a marker of time and physical change. For performers, flexibility is never just party trivia; it's labor. Minogue is talking about the body as equipment, and the subtext is that equipment wears. Coming from a musician whose career spans decades of choreography, reinvention, and public scrutiny, the line lands as a micro-confession about aging without the typical inspirational packaging.

Culturally, it also sidesteps the hyper-polished "wellness" narrative celebrities are expected to sell. No biohacking, no empowerment slogan, just a lightly comic image of a person remembering what her body once did. It works because it's anti-mythmaking: a star describing herself like someone chatting in a dressing room, stripping "icon" down to muscle and memory.

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Kylie Minogue (born May 28, 1968) is a Musician from Australia.

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