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Emma Watson feels inadequate

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Actress Emma Watson, who is on a promotional spree for her latest film "The Bling Ring", says she sometimes feels unnerved by her success and what it entails.

"It's called the impostor syndrome. It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.

"It's weird - sometimes success can be incredibly validating, but sometimes it can be incredibly unnerving and throw your balance off a bit, because you're trying to reconcile how you feel about yourself with how the rest of the world perceives you," she said.
 

The 23-year-old also revealed how she loves to write, and hopes to publish her work one day, but feels that she would have to do so under a false name, reported Digital Spy.

"I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my written work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed. I was 15 or 16 then, and I'm now 23.

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First Published: May 30 2013 | 12:46 PM IST

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