Tyla chooses to keep her circle small to protect her sense of privacy.
In a new conversation with Glamour for its Women of the Year issue, the South African star shared that she doesn’t often open up about the challenges that come with fame.
“To be honest, I barely talk to anyone outside my family and my closest people,” she said. “I’m mostly learning how to handle everything on my own. I’ve always been a private person.”
The singer explained that when she’s not performing, she likes to stay out of the public eye.
“When I’m on stage, I don’t hold back. I love when all eyes are on me and everyone’s having a good time,” Tyla told the magazine. “But once I’m off stage, I’m actually quite shy. I don’t enjoy being watched when I’m out having fun. I just want to stay in my own space.”
The “Water” artist admitted that all the sudden attention that came with her rise to fame felt strange at first.
“I remember in the beginning it felt really odd because it was like things changed overnight,” she said. “It was such a big shift.”
Later in the interview, Tyla—who broke through globally in 2023—shared that she was surprised by how much her travels opened her eyes to the world.
“At first, I was kind of overwhelmed because it was all so new,” she said. “For 23 years, I only knew one way of life. Then I got to see other countries, other cultures, and how different people live.”
She added, “It’s amazing to meet people who are genuinely curious about where I come from and to realize how much we actually have in common.”
Suki Waterhouse has spoken candidly about how she found herself crying constantly after the birth of her daughter.
The singer and actress reflected on her experience as a mother more than two years after she and her partner, actor Robert Pattinson, welcomed their baby girl in March 2024.
During an interview with The Standard published on Thursday, Suki explained that motherhood has completely shifted her outlook on life.
"I think it's made me marvel at our humanness. It's so funny, even just your kid getting a fever, watching a little body recover from that, it's brought me down to what it is to be alive and I really love that," she said. "It feels very survivalist and medieval in a way, especially birth, birth is medieval."
The Daisy Jones & The Six actress, 34, shared that she was caught off guard by just how exposed and emotional she felt after giving birth to her daughter.
"I'm almost two and a half years in now, but when she was first born, I remember thinking that I can't believe everybody does this and I can't believe how vulnerable I feel," she told the publication. "I was crying all the time."
Suki continued, "It makes me cry now thinking about it. It was just... shocking."
The Notting Hill singer also admitted that she has never considered herself someone who cries easily, making those emotions all the more surprising.
"It's so f**king weird! I'm not a cryer! I'm so not an emotional person, I'm such a Capricorn. But being a mum just fed me up in such a sweet way," she stated. "It just absolutely broke open my heart, and I'm just madly in love and, despite my crying right now, I enjoy it so much and I'm so taken by my daughter and so in love with doing it with my partner and I just feel the preciousness of it very much."
Suki and Twilight actor Robert, 40, have been in a relationship since 2018 and announced they were expecting their first child together toward the end of 2023.
The pair have largely kept their romance away from the spotlight and have yet to publicly share the name of their daughter.
