Ellie Goulding worried about her looks

Ellie Goulding used to worry she wasn’t ”aesthetically pleasing enough”.

The ‘Burn’ singer – who shot to fame after winning the Critics Choice Award at the Brits in 2010 – was concerned that her looks might limit her success and tried to conceal her features during photoshoots.

She told ES Magazine: ”At one time, I was getting all this musical success, but I wasn’t getting all the things that went with it, like magazine covers.

”I was convinced for a long time I wasn’t aesthetically pleasing enough. I would have to angle my face to hide the side of my nose, or my chin.

”Then I stopped caring. I let go. Put a different energy out there — then [the covers] all started to happen.”

Ellie, 27, also slammed critics who has called her ”too athletic” after she appeared on UK TV show ‘The X Factor’ last year in a sheer Julien Macdonald dress.

She said: ”They said my body was ‘too athletic’. Too athletic?

”Isn’t it admirable that someone has worked so hard to look good and be healthy?”

The blonde beauty – who has previously dated Radio 1 DJ Greg James and Skrillex and has been romantically linked to Ed Sheeran and One Direction’s Niall Horan – also opened up about her relationship with McBusted’s Dougie Poynter.

She said: ”It feels great to be with someone without needing them.”