ONE DIRECTION star Harry Styles has caused a few older women to sit up and take notice over the last year with his cougar-bedding antics.
But fiery pop icon Pink has raised an eyebrow at the benchmark for an “older woman” being someone in their early thirties.
Harry had a fling with TV presenter Caroline Flack, 32, and an affair with married DJ Lucy Horobin, also 32, after mouthing “I love you” on her radio show.
Pink — real name Alecia Moore — is now a 32-year-old married mum-of-one herself so could well find herself in the boyband star’s crosshairs.
But Pink insists she could never see herself as a cougar.
She said: “It’s funny following the One Direction phenomenon and what’s happening with Harry Styles.
“Apparently he ‘loves’ a cougar — who turns out to be a woman aged 32.
“I just about qualify. I mean, I still feel a bit like a 17-year-old boy myself. I don’t know if I’ll ever feel any different.”
One Direction are only one album and one US tour into a fledgling career and have a long way to go to match Pink’s experience in music.
Since she exploded on to the scene in 2000, with her shock of blonde and pink hair, she has gone on to sell more than 40million albums, more than a million DVDs and has had close to 20million iTunes downloads.
Her sixth studio album, The Truth About Love, is out on September 17, with the first single from it, Blow Me (One Last Kiss), is out on September 2.
But the LA-based star’s life has changed dramatically since her 2008 album Funhouse — having had her first child, daughter Willow, with motocross champ husband Carey Hart last year.
Despite the upheaval in her life, Pink’s enthusiasm for another world tour isn’t dampened. She said: “I am looking forward to getting back into it. It feels completely new.
“I’ve become one of those parents who talks about nothing else other than their kids. I can’t wait to do it because it will be seeing the world through Willow’s eyes.
“It will be devastating every time I have to leave her, but mostly she will be coming with me everywhere.
“I have a pretty cool gig. The longest we have had apart is four hours in the last year.
“I think she needs a break from me!
“I am still breastfeeding. Carey was joking that I will probably still be breastfeeding her on the way to her prom. I’m totally obsessed. I love her.
“Having a baby changes you. You immediately become a lightweight. You are actually responsible for something. It’s not as fun to feel out of control.
“Carey used to smoke weed occasionally to help him go to sleep but now he knows exactly what would happen. We would end up driving somewhere, with me in the back, checking my pulse, rocking back and forth.”
Over the past ten years her relationship with Carey has been volatile to say the least.
They have split up and reconciled countless times but they are happier than ever, especially now he has retired from his death-defying day job. Pink said: “When I was recording the album, I would get home at 11pm and Carey was great at getting up with Willow for the early feed around 5am.
“He would let me sleep in to about 7am, so I feel pretty spoiled. It’s even better now he has done his last big event.
“He did his last X Games a few weeks back. It’s good because we are going to be a travelling gypsy band now — all of us on the road. That was always the plan.
“His job has never been a safe thing to do but at 36 he just doesn’t bounce as much. I am very happy about him finishing. The way he came out of it was his way and a healthy way.
“It wasn’t forced on him — not like most of the guys who crash and don’t even realise it will be their last run.
“He is still going to ride. I don’t put broken bones completely behind him — but there definitely won’t be as many.”
Now Pink is a mum, the singer once famous for her wild lifestyle is mentally preparing herself to grow old.
She added: “The other day I saw this couple in their Seventies walking along arm-in-arm, he had his walking stick, she had her bum bag on. It just occurred to me — they probably still have sex. But they probably look at us and feel 17.
“Me and Carey are going to be the most crotchety, grumpy, asshole older people.”
As an avid reader, Pink’s adjustment to “growing old” has been aided by the latest coffee-morning controversy — E.L. James’ book Fifty Shades Of Grey. She said: “I read it last week. I love reading and had to know what was turning all these housewives into sex maniacs.
“It was fine. I don’t want to diss the writer — it was wonderful — but I felt the writing was a bit juvenile.
“It felt a bit like reading a trashy sex novel in high school.
“It was like, ‘Oh my God. His tongue’s down there — holy f***.’
“I thought, ‘Could you have used a bigger word?’”
Someone needs to make sure Harry Styles doesn’t get anywhere near that book.
'Morphine doesn't go well
with social networking'
PINK insists she has never been happier following the birth of daughter Willow – despite a health scare forcing her to miss her baby’s first birthday party.
The singer was admitted to hospital for emergency surgery to remove agonising gallstones.
She was desperate to make it out in time for Willow’s birthday in early June – but the powerful drugs actually led to her doing some very strange things on Twitter.
Pink said: “I am fantastic, amazing – as happy as a clam right now. The only bum out was being in hospital on Willow’s first birthday.
“I had spent six months planning her party and told the doctors ‘Do whatever you have to do, but I have to be out of here tomorrow by 10am – I am not cancelling this f***ing party’.
“They said, ‘Well, you might want to think about cancelling this party, because you are going nowhere in a hurry’. I don’t usually tweet revealing pictures but the morphine really doesn’t go too well with social networking. I should have had my phone confiscated.
“When I got out of the hospital, I checked my timeline and I had done all this stuff I had absolutely no recollection of doing.
“Next time someone gives me an anaesthetic they should take away my iPhone.
“I am a big believer in having a breathalyser app. Something that if it senses anything in your system that shouldn’t be there, the phone just says ‘emergency calls only’.
“I remember ten years ago, when people first started blogging, I wrote a love letter to wine. I put the letter up on the internet and I remember my manager ringing and saying, ‘We’re going to go ahead and take that love letter down now’. I wish I’d kept it, it was special.”
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