Singleton class and static data members of the class type

[seventhirty]

Hi : )

Last night a had a really hard time trying to understand the singleton pattern for a class which has a data member, with the same type as the class itself:

class Singleton
{
public:

	void printData() { cout << data << endl;}

private:

	Singleton(): data(0) { /* other work */ }
	Singleton( const Singleton &);				// never defined
	Singleton & operator=( const Singleton &);	// never defined
	~Singleton();

	int data;

	static Singleton singleton;

};

Ok, so, now I want to be able to use object singleton as a regular object - a want to have access to its public data members from outside the class scope. Let's just say that I prefer to use an object of type Singleton, rather than a pointer to a Singleton object.

This code, as it is compiles fine, but singleton(the static object) is never created ( i think..)
I suppose, as any other static data member, singleton must be defined exactly once outside the class body. How do I do that with a private constructor?
I suppose I should define a public static function that:
1. creates dynamically an object if there is no object created
2.returns a reference to it..

Basically my question is:

If i define only one constructor that is private, how can I initialize the class static member, which is an object of the same type as the class itself outside the class definition?

It's all very confusing...