Sabrina Carpenter poked fun at her provocative style as she hosted Saturday Night Live

Sabrina said: "Now since I'm here, I want to clear up some misconceptions people have about me.

"Everyone thinks of me at this like, horndog pop star, but there's really so much more to me. I'm not just horny. I'm also turned on and I'm sexually charged. And I love to read. My favourite book is the encyclopaedia. It's so big and it's hard..."

Sabrina also made light of the controversial cover for her album Man's Best Friend and joked that it had been taken when she had performed on Saturday Night Live's 50th Anniversary Special in February.

The 26-year-old star said: "Some people got a little freaked out by the cover. I'm not sure why.

"It was just this me on all fours with an unseen figure pulling my hair. But what people don't realise is, that's just how they cropped it. If you zoom out, it's clearly a picture from the 50th anniversary special of Bowen (Yang) helping me up by the hair... after Martin Short shoved me out of the buffet line."

Carpenter had previously stated that she was "surprised" by the backlash the album cover received when it was revealed earlier this year.

She said: "I was surprised. I think mostly because when I thought about making this album cover, I was really inspired by a man sort of delicately playing with my hair.

"Because I think there were a lot of metaphors between this dog and me emotionally. You know, a man's best friend and sort of all the implications that that comes with it, the power in dominance and submission.

"When I saw it, obviously for me, it checked all the boxes in between my friends and family. It just felt like what the music sounds like."

However, she also insisted that the record and its raunchy lyrics weren't suitable for "pearl clutchers".

Sabrina said: "The album is not for any pearl clutchers. No, but I, I also think that even pearl clutchers can listen to an album like that in their own solitude and find something that makes them smirk and chuckle to themselves..."