Barbra Streisand’s beauty and talent has kept her at the top of her game as her decades in Tinseltown have rolled by.
However, the EGOT winner, 81, revealed that her “odd-looking” physical features — most notably her nose — “got more press” than she ever did.
In an audio excerpt from her upcoming memoir “My Name Is Barbra,” Streisand detailed how she was mockingly labeled when she first began her Hollywood career in the early 1960s.
Among the names she was called were “an amiable anteater, a sour persimmon, a furious hamster, a myopic gazelle, and a seasick ferret.”
Despite the “Yentl” star feeling somewhat flattered by the words, she is “still kinda hurt by the insults” years later.
When she appeared in the hit 1964 Broadway musical “Funny Girl,” her star quality rose to new heights and the media went from describing her as a weird animal to more statuesque monikers like “Babylonian queen” with a “pharaonic profile.”
“I must say, I loved those descriptions,” she joked in her book, adding that she was told she had “scarab eyes.”
While Streisand believed the phrase was a flattering remark at first, she revealed that “one of those eyes does look, well, a little cross-eyed at times.”
“[I] can’t quite believe the praise,” she penned. “For 40 years, publishers have been asking me to write my autobiography.”
Streisand said: “But I kept turning them down because I prefer to live in the present rather than dwell on the past.”
The “Mirror Has Two Faces” actress went on: “And the fact is, I’m scared that after six decades of people making up stories about me…I’m going to tell the truth, and nobody is going to believe it.”
Elsewhere in her book, Streisand divulged that late actor Marlon Brando wanted to have intimate relations with her while he was married to his wife, Tarita Teriipaia.
In the portion obtained by Vanity Fair, the “Godfather” actor encountered the Oscar winner at a party in 1966 and told her, “I’d like to f–k you.” Teriipaia was also at the event and was in the room next to the young stars.
Brando propositioned her once again while they were taking a drive in the 1970s. But Streisand still didn’t back down and she remained pals with the “Superman” star despite refusing his affections.
Another chapter featured an anecdote about the “Woman in Love” crooner fighting to get Robert Redford to join her on their now-iconic 1973 romance film “The Way We Were.”
“Bob is that rare combination … an intellectual cowboy … a charismatic star who is also one of the finest actors of his generation,” she wrote. “But like my husband, he’s almost apologetic about his looks, and I liked that about him.
“So I wanted Redford for Hubbell. But he turned it down,” she said, adding that she asked their director Sydney Pollack for help.
The filmmaker’s efforts to get the “Spy Game” actor on board were successful, and Streisand told the “Three Days of the Condor” director to give Redford “anything he wants.”
“Bob was concerned that the script was so focused on Katie that Hubbell’s character was underdeveloped,” explained Streisand.
She scribed: “Bob asked Sydney, ‘Who is this guy? He’s just an object … He doesn’t want anything. What does this want?’ In Bob’s opinion, he was ‘shallow and one-dimensional. Not very real.’ ‘A pin-up girl in reverse,’ as Sydney put it.”
“My Name is Barbra” will hit bookshelves on Nov. 7.