Ariana Grande is the epitome of far-out glamour, but she wasn’t such a charming 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 as she revealed in the latest issue of Billboard magazine.

The 21-year-old singer exposed herself as a ‘very weird little girl’ and quipped, jokingly one hopes, that her own mother, Joan, thought she might turn into ‘a serial 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁er’ one day.

Back then, Ariana’s idols included Freddy Krueger, the scary antagonist of A Nightmare On Elm Street who slashed his victims to death with a bladed glove, and a 25-foot-long great white shark otherwise known as Jaws.

Far-out glamour: Ariana Grande donned a 1960s-style white dress with cut-out details for the latest issue of Billboard in which she described her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥hood as ‘dark and deranged’

The petite, 5 ft star, who grew up in Boca Raton, Florida, said her past bordered on the ‘dark and deranged.’

‘There was a stage, when I was three or four, where my mom thought I might grow up to be a serial 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁er,’ Ariana told Billboard.

She continued: ‘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.’

Didn’t turn out so bad: The 21-year-old singer told the magazine that she had been a ‘very weird little girl’ and that her mom, Joan, pictured with her last year, thought she’d ‘grow up to be a serial 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁er’

Space cadet: Ariana wore a very mod polka-dotted helmet for her Billboard cover that was inspired from a 1960s fashion photo she saw

Breathless: The former Nickelodeon star squeezed into a black corset mini-dress for another glam shot for the magazine shoot

‘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.’

Ariana looked all grown up in the sizzling Billboard spread where she was pictured lounging on a plush blue velvet couch while wearing a ’60s-inspired white mini-dress with horizontal slashes acoss the waist.

Pom-pom earrings, white eye shadow and heavy liner, and a half-up, half-down hairstyle made up the rest of the ensemble.

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Odd but goodie: The eccentric star, who counts Madonna as one of her present-day idols, was shown in the Break Free music video wearing an interesting corset probably inspired by the older pop star

Her Billboard cover shows her wearing a very mod, polka-dotted helmet inspired from a 1960s fashion photo shoot.

Another shot shows Ariana – who also counts Marlene Dietrich and Madonna as idols – posing in a black corset mini-dress with white nail polish adding a touch of contrast.

Ariana also opened up about her bout with hypoglycemia when she was younger.

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‘Sometimes I’ll get anxious if I forget to eat. When I was a little girl, I would turn into the Tasmanian devil,’ she told Billboard.

By the time she reached her teens, the Catholic-raised Ariana discovered Kabbalah.

‘(I) started practicing my own things when I was around 12 years old,’ she told the magazine. ‘As a fellow Kabbalist, I know how hard it is to exercise those tools in your everyday life.

‘Especially in a world where everything is so egocentric and all you do is talk about yourself and promote yourself.’