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If you’ve watched a Beyonce interview, you would likely say the seven-time Grammy Award winning singer and Oscar-nominated actress seems grounded and humble, which is startling considering her $100 million bank account and her bold, flashy, sensuous stage persona.
However, the 5-foot-4 starlet can morph into a diva when she slips back into normalcy and continues to walk around in six-inch heels even after shedding her sexy stage clothes and her Sasha Fierce alter ego.

‘B’ made headlines all over the world last week when she took two chauffeured cars full of bodyguards and her assistants across the street to walk around the Harvey Nicholls department store for 20 minutes. She had just wrapped up the Europe/U.K. leg of her 110-city “I am ….Sasha Fierce” tour, and she refused to walk in heels across a London street from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel where she was staying. Instead, she and her entourage hopped into the chauffeured cars to ride slightly up the road and make a u-turn to be dropped off right in front of the designer store. After a brief escorted tour, she and her group rode back across the street to the hotel.
Beyonce, who actually has a song called “Diva” on the Sasha Fierce side of her latest “I am …..Sasha Fierce” album, also made headlines during the presidential inauguration in January. She refused to walk four blocks to her car after rehearsal for her performance because of Washington, D.C.’s chilly temperature and she was wearing high heels. So at her request, President Obama’s Secret Service drove her and her rapper husband Jay-Z to their car.
But ‘B’ wasn’t trying to be a diva. Her feet were killing her.
Any businesswoman can tell you how much her toes, soles and ankles hurt after a 40-hour work week in heels.
So imagine how Beyonce feels after hours upon hours, night after night and city upon city of dancing in high heels.
In fact, Beyonce recently revealed in this month’s issue of Self magazine that her feet “throb” when she goes to bed because she refuses to perform without wearing her trademark designer stilettos.
“When I come home and take them (shoes) off, I’m like, ‘Oh my God! I wish I could just chop my feet off!” Beyonce said. “But while I’m dancing, I’m thinking of the choreography. I don’t think about my feet until I’m trying to go to sleep and they’re throbbing.”
But apparently, ‘B’ prefers wearing high heels off stage as well.
She wised up when she returned to the U.S. from London last Wednesday to rest up before the U.S. leg of her tour kicks off in N.Y. on June 21. She wore black loafers to walk through JFK International to a waiting chauffeured SUV.

So Beyonce’s diva alter ego stayed under the hood she wore to be her normally low-key self.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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