'I just thought they were cooler': Kanye West has his teeth replaced with diamonds



He travels by private jet, holidays on a luxury yacht and dates beautiful models.

And now Kanye West has the ultimate accessory to his rock star life - diamond teeth.



The rapper showed off the sparkling diamond and gold implants to chatshow host Ellen DeGeneres yesterday.

'I just thought that diamonds were cooler,' he told her, saying he asked the dentist to remove his bottom row of teeth and replace them.

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Flashing his smile: Kanye West has had his teeth replaced with diamonds and gold

Sparkling: The star posted a picture of his new teeth on Twitter

A fascinated Ellen asked: 'It's not a grill?'

Kanye replied: 'It's really my real teeth. I replaced my bottom row of teeth.



'I guess there's just certain things that rock stars are supposed to do.'

His earlier claims to have replaced his teeth were met with scepticism, with Kanye's fans doubting that even he would do such a thing.



But it seems they may have underestimated him.



The show was Kanye's first TV interview since he famously interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV VMAs.



Rock star: Kanye said he 'just thought diamonds were cooler'

Kanye said he took the advice of his friend Mos Def to take a holiday as his whole world 'completely crashed'.

'I left America. I stopped doing music altogether. I just took some time,' Kanye said.



'I went to Japan just so I could get away from paparazzi altogether.

'Then in November I moved to Rome and just lived there, and when I came back to the States I moved to Hawaii. I lived there for about six months and just worked on music.'

He said the episode was the first time he had sat down to think about his life since the death of his mother in 2007.

'It was time to take a break and develop more as a person, as a creator and focus more on my thoughts and my ideas and what I wanted to bring to the world,' he said.

Opening up: It was Kanye's first TV interview since he interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at last year's MTV VMAs

Repentant: Kanye revealed he left the U.S. to escape the backlash





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