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Name: Katharine Hope McPhee
Height: 5'8"
Birth Date: March 25, 1984
Birth Place: Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, USA
Occupation: Reality TV Star
With her irresistible
combination of sultry looks and beautiful voice,
it was obvious Katharine McPhee was going to
do well on American Idol.
Those two factors helped propel the 22-year-old
through the heats and to the final, where she
was the runner-up to grey-haired, soul-singing,
Southern boy Taylor Hicks. But she wasn’t
going to lose any sleep over losing: "I
don't need any sad faces. I got a record deal,
I got a new car, and I have all these great
fans and wonderful people in my life. It would
really just be silly to feel bad for me at this
point."
With a vocal coach and accomplished singer for
a mom (Peisha Burch McPhee), it was almost inevitable
that Katharine would take to the microphone
herself. The brunette has been singing since
the age of two and her mom has been training
her ever since she recognised her daughter’s
talent.
In 2002, she attended the prestigious Boston
Conservatory for three semesters where she honed
her skills in musical theatre, before leaving
to audition for television parts. She won roles
in a pilot, an independent film and played the
title character in a theatre production of Annie
Get Your Gun. The Los Angeles born star continued
to be active in local theatre by playing Anna
Muir in the musical The Ghost and Mrs Muir at
a North Hollywood arts centre.
From Kate’s very first audience for American
Idol in San Francisco - where she sang God Bless
The Child - , her looks and talents grabbed
the judges’ attention. Randy Jackson hailed
her voice as he best voice he’d heard
so-far that season and even the almost-impossible-to-please
Simon Cowell thought she was great.
Katharine - who cites her favourite artists
as Whitney Houston and Brian McKnight - says
that participating in idol wasn’t about
the fame, “get[ting] all these clothes
and your hair and make-up done” but “getting
to touch people‘s lives“. She adds:
“celebrity should be used to touch people
and reach them in a way that you wouldn't reach
them [otherwise]. I really look forward to doing
that."
The songstress’s debut single, a double
A side of Somewhere Over The Rainbow and My
Destiny, which she describes as a “great,
traditional pop ballad. I don't think that's
going to be the overall sound of my album when
it comes out, but it did its job [recounting]
my journey on American Idol."
With American Idol behind her now, Katherine
has her future mapped out. Like her own Idol
Barbara Streisand, she’s hoping for a
“well-rounded career”.
“I definitely want to do movies. I know
it sounds clichéd, but we'll see how
[those plans] play out,” she says.
American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee has
admitted to a five-year long battle with bulimia,
one that she only learned to control after auditioning
for the show last fall. Katharine talks about
her struggle, which was first reported by PEOPLE,
in the August issue of TEEN PEOPLE (on newsstands
June 30). In her cover story, Katharine, 22,
admits to having suffered from the eating disorder
since she was 17, saying, "I was a binge-and-purger.
It always starts off with a diet. The more I
dieted, the more I became obsessed with food.
Food was like a drug to me...It was such a miserable
life." The singer's weight issues started
when she was in her early teens. "At 13,
my body changed," Katharine tells TEEN
PEOPLE. "Overnight, I had womanly curves
and big boobs. [Before,] I was a stick and could
eat all I wanted." Her new body caused
her to be self-conscious when she attended Notre
Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Calif. "I
was on the swim team but always [felt] uncomfortable
in bathing suits," she says. "I got
more and more obsessed with trying to lose weight
and looking like other 14- and 15-year-olds.".
