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MIA has spoken about her colourful upbringing and early life, and claimed she told her university she would become a hooker if they rejected her application.
The rapper, who was born in Hounslow, applied to study at prestigious London art school Central St Martins.
In a new interview with Sunday Times Style, MIA revealed that she told the school that she would "go and be a hooker in King's Cross and make a film about it and come back in three years' time and be like, 'this is what happened to me when I got rejected by Saint Martins'."
Luckily, it didn't quite come to that and MIA graduated in 2001 with a degree in fine art.
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MIA, real name Maya Arulpragasam, also touched on her relationship with England, explaining how fashion is the reason she's here. After her birth in Hounslow, her family moved to Sri Lanka, then moved back to the UK when she was 11-years-old. Her uncle was apparently the "first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s," eventually working his way up to being a "millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop". "So fashion bought me here," she concluded.
The 'Bad Girls' rapper also claims her seamstress mother made one of Michael Jackson's outfits, the one "with all the medals when he came to England", and even made Prince William's wedding sash. MIA is now making forays of her own into the fashion world, recently collaborating with Versace on a line inspired by cheap market copies of the iconic Italian brand.
MIA, 38, released her fourth studio album, Matangi, yesterday.
