United Kingdom, April 14 -- Shirley Manson found photoshoots "repulsive" because they damaged her self-esteem.

The Garbage star has admitted she hated the "visual accompaniment" to her music career - admitting she didn't like seeing pictures of herself looking "gorgeous and fantastical" because she didn't look like herself and they made her feel like she wasn't "good enough".

She told the Guardian newspaper: "The problem with a lot of success is it comes with a lot of visual accompaniment. Your self is reflected back at you on every magazine. Some versions are gorgeous and fantastical and you look nothing like yourself - maybe there's a small semblance of you in the eyes.

"And then there are incredibly unflattering ones . I wasn't the ...