Ariana Grande got her start on Broadway before becoming a Nickelodeon star and launching a music career. Before the 21-year-old singer became famous, though, her mom feared for an alternative future. The up-and-comer says in Billboard’s Aug. 23 issue, “For my fifth birthday party we had a Jaws theme and all my friends left crying. I mean, I still am that way. But when I was little it was more concerning. There was a stage, when I was 3 or 4, where my mom thought I might grow up to be a serial killer.” Grande, who lives in L.A., says she was “a very weird little girl” growing up in Boca Raton, Fla. Calling herself “dark and deranged,” she says, “I always wanted to have skeleton face paint on or be wearing a Freddy Krueger mask, and I would carry a hockey stick around. I was like a mini-Helena Bonham Carter.”
