"I've struggled with losing myself," she says, "in ways where I didn't feel like I could figure it out." Brandy hit it big back in 1994 when she released her debut self-titled album with the hit ...

Early on, she says fame felt like "pure joy." But despite her ever-positive, upbeat image, Brandy, says that as she matured, she began to feel trapped by her "perfect" public image. In 2002 she ...