Kylie Minogue Marvels at How She's 'Come a Long Way' in Legendary Career After Feeling 'Insecure' in the Studio (Exclusive)

Rachel DeSantisWed, May 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM UTC

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Kylie Minogue in Athens, Greece in June 2024.
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Kylie Minogue opens up to PEOPLE about her enduring career and overcoming challenges

The Australian pop star opens up like never before in the new Netflix docuseries Kylie

"I've come a long way," she says

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."

Kylie Minogue at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in February 2024.
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Minogue kicked things off in the music industry as a pop starlet, building her sugar-sweet reputation with hits like "Got to Be Certain" and "Hand on Your Heart." By the 1990s, though, she'd started exploring her creativity, taking risks with both her sound and her image with albums like Kylie Minogue in 1994 and Impossible Princess in 1997.

Minogue admits that the early days of her career were a baptism by fire. "I didn't know what I was doing," she says. "I was out there for the wolves."

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And even into the 1990s, she struggled with the isolating nature of her chosen career path.

Kylie Minogue at Glastonbury Festival in June 2019.
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"I can't tell you how lonely I felt so many times in the studio, into the ‘90s, where it's all the pressure of, ‘We've rented the studio, you've got to get the vocals today.' I'm uncertain, I'm insecure," she recalls.

Now, though, she's "keen" to get back into the studio after her last album, 2024's Tension II — a dead giveaway that her career really has come full circle.

"I think of where I am now, where I'd run to the studio, and just thinking about that really makes me realize I've come a long way," she says.

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