My 10-Year Affair With Beyonc�

She is one of the biggest superstars on the planet: a �500 million pop powerhouse who is known around the world by just her Christian name, counts Barack and Michelle Obama as friends and was personally chosen by the President to perform at his inauguration. At 34, Beyonc� is at the top of her game. Meticulously packaged, groomed and marketed, she slavishly controls her public image � so it was a rare glimpse of the real woman behind the impenetrable mask when last week she snapped �Stop it� at an assistant fussing in an attempt to stop her falling out of her pink couture outfit at a glittering charity event in New York.