The Highs & Lows of Being Kylie Minogue

CAN’T GET HER OUT OF OUR HEADS! THE AUSSIE POP STAR OPENS UP IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT LIFE, LOVE AND THE MUSIC THAT’S MADE HER A CULTURAL FORCE FOR FOUR DECADES

- RACHEL DESANTIS

After 40 years in show business, two Grammys and 80 million records sold, Kylie Minogue perhaps said it best in the title of her 1987 breakthrough hit “I Should Be So Lucky.” The Australian icon, 58, has rolled with the punches of an ever-evolving pop music landscape to remain a heavy hitter amid both triumphs (scoring massive hits like 2001’s “Can’t Get You out of My Head” and multiple sold-out tours) and heartache (a 2005 breast cancer diagnosis). “I think [performing] is what I’m supposed to do. I was amazingly able to start doing that from a young age, and I just haven’t looked back,” says Minogue, who reflects on her life and career like never before in the new three-part Netflix docuseries Kylie. “There’s definitely been some moments where people were blocking the road or I’d created a mess for myself, but I’ve just kind of kept chipping away.”

The Melbourne-raised Minogue stepped into the spotlight in 1986 when she was cast as girl next door Charlene Mitchell on the soap opera