Pop Starlet Lana Del Rey Just Can’t Catch a Break

A Girl Named Lizzy Grant

The thing with Lana Del Rey is that it can be pretty hard sometimes to tell what is fact and what is fiction. I mean, we’re talking about a person has admitted to being “a lot of different people.” While many things about the pop star remain mysterious to this day, there is a true story to be told about the woman behind the image.

Lana Del Rey attends the Grammy Awards dressed in a vintage look.

Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images

Before Hollywood entered her vision, she was known as Lizzy Grant. Well, she was born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant on June 21, 1985, in Manhattan, but she was raised in Lake Placid. The eldest of three siblings, she was raised Roman Catholic by her parents, who were of Scottish descent.