Pop Quiz: Kelly Osbourne

Pop Quiz: Kelly Osbourne

Aidin Vaziri | Depending on how many episodes of "The Osbournes" you caught, you either can't stand Kelly Osbourne or you totally hate her. But the funny thing is, she knows she acted like a royal brat on her family's wildly popular MTV reality series. She was, after all, only 16, hooked on painkillers and seeing her face in the tabloids every week. Now 20, Osbourne, with a little help from Linda Perry, has reinvented herself as a svelte new-wave vixen on her surprisingly decent second album, "Sleeping in the Nothing." Calling from London (the week before she checked into rehab again), Osbourne tells us how she pulled it off.



Kelly Osbourne
Q: Has anyone told you that person on the album cover doesn't look much like you?
A: See, it came out really weird. I was wearing this dress, right, and these heels and this corset that tucked me in really, really tight. I wanted to look like Anna Karina from "Alphaville."
Q: I heard you wear corsets 24 hours a day.
A: I'm trying to. I want to do it so bad.
Q: Doesn't it hurt?
A: It hurts like a mother -- . I get bruises all the time. I think I've got a bruised rib, too.
Q: So why do that to yourself?
A: Pain is beauty. I don't want to get plastic surgery and I hate working out, so I'll just wear corsets under everything.
Q: Do you think you have traded your cocaine addiction for a corset addiction?
A: I never did cocaine! I was addicted to opiates, like downer drugs.
Q: I need to get my drugs straight.
A: Trust me, dude, I would be a lot skinnier if I did cocaine.