Barbra Streisand is back in the spotlight—but not for a new chart-topping single or the recent release of her highly ...

"I didn't have a doll, so I put hot water into a hot water bottle which felt like a real person," she said. While promoting ...

Barbra Streisand: "I'm a very private person ... As a child, she turned a hot water bottle into her doll, hugging it at night as she fell asleep. When her mother remarried a couple of years ...

Streisand’s memoir ... Brooklyn. Instead of a doll she carried a hot-water bottle — “I swear it felt more like a real baby than some cold doll” — for which a sympathetic neighbor ...