A quote about Nick's youth reveals when he stopped (his words) "being one of the guys" and realised it was time to embrace his vagina-hood:
"Yes I was bullied a bit as a youth, I was. I got to a point when I was 11, 12, 13 years old where I didn't care, made myself an outsider to avoid that - stopped trying to be one of the guys - sort of said, 'fuck you, if you guys don't want me then I don't want you either.' And that's when things started to work out for me as a kid. That's when I found out who I was as a person"
Nick Valensi has spoken about his pregnancy which saw him develop uncomfortable complications.
The rocker and his British socialite spouse AMANDA DE CADENET welcomed twins in October 2006 but he reveals the lead-up to their birth was extremely painful.
He recalls, "I hoped it would get better, but it went from bad to worse. I developed fluid retention so my arms and feet swelled really badly. I had carpal tunnel syndrome and couldn't feel my hands from the elbow down.
"Towards the end I was so huge that I almost had to be rolled out of bed. I didn't see my feet for months. I couldn't sleep any my whole body itched. By the end I could only sleep standing up in the shallow end of the swimming pool, because water alleviated the weight of the babies.
"I'd put a towel on the poolside and just put my head down"
Stroke's guitarist Nick Valensi last night confirmed after recent allegations made that he did in fact appear on the front cover of the band's debut album "Is This It":
Aw, what happened to the pic from this post? Can someone repost it here in a comment? I was sure I'd saved it but I guess I was wrong. What a shame, that was my favorite LJ post ever.
"Hi, I'm Nick Valensi. You might recognize me as that hot chick from the Strokes. And I'm here to talk to viewers like you about gender confusion. I went through twenty five years of pretending to be a man, because I was taught that embracing my she-nis was socially unacceptable, and dirty, and wrong. But then I realized that my lack of male sex organs is only a problem if I LET it be a problem. If I believe in myself, and I am confident about my slightly more than ambiguous gender, and I am a-okay with wearing my long, flowing, greasy locks in a ballerina bun, then I can achieve all my goals and dreams just as well as any real man. My vagina won't stop me from growing Howard Stern hair. It won't stop be from eating negative five hundred calories a day, and by god it will not keep me from snorting every powdered substance there is until I don't look like a Jew anymore, because I BELIEVE in myself, and I am confident with my she-nis, and for all you boys who are really girls (Tom Cruise, I'm talking to you!), burn your boxers and jockstraps and go invest in pretty lacy things from Victoria's Secret, BECAUSE HAVING A SHE-NIS IS JUST FINE. Right, ladies?"
I was flipping through my sister Angela’s GLAMOUR, when I discovered that our dear Nicky was in it. There was spots on up-and-coming models, and seeing as how Nicky recently signed w/ Elite (see one of opranoodlmantra’s post), there she was. It was like a picture of each model (not posed, natural), with a little bit of words about common female traits. Here is the picture of Nicky, along w/ her quote: "I think one of the worst female traits that exist is the need to gossip. We just don’t seem to realize how mean it can be. Like when people say I don’t have a vagina. That is hurtful to me. I hope that one day gossip will be completely nonexistent. We females need to stick together, not talk trash on each other."
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