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Archive for September, 2006

Kate Bosworth: gifted, talented.. eating disordered?

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Among many other actresses who have struggled with eating disorders are Scarlett Pomers ["Reba"], Felicity Huffman [“Desperate Housewives”], Jane Fonda and now possibly Kate Bosworth, according to recent pictures with her ribs all too visible [right], and multiple reports of her smoking rather than eating. Supposedly she even had to have her size 0 clothes [...]

Relationships and being authentically yourself

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Hilary Swank, commenting about being single again, said she is “the happiest I’ve ever been.. not because I’m getting a divorce, because I’m living in truth now. My happiness has stemmed from being brutally honest with myself, facing the truth every single day, no matter how hard it is.
“It’s not happiness like I got the [...]

Janet Jackson on her body image

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

“I don’t see myself as a sexy person…. For a long time, I had a hard time finding things I liked about myself physically. I’d never look in the mirror…’cause I didn’t really like what I saw.
“One day I looked in the mirror because I wanted to find something that I liked about myself — [...]

Scarlett Johansson: “I don’t need to be skinny to be sexy.”

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

In Scarlett Johansson’s new movie, struggling actress Elizabeth Short (aka The Black Dahlia, played by Mia Kirshner) is shown auditioning for role after role. Johansson says she has “a lot of friends who are very talented actors and musicians who struggle…
“Any time that you are involved in a field that’s revolving around vanity of some [...]

Laura Dern: being an artist and parent

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

“I don’t know if I would have made the same choices if I hadn’t grown up around the passion my parents had for playing authentic and deeply flawed characters.
“Their artistic passion existed, like another entity in the house. Now I get that I wouldn’t be a full parent to my kids without it, any more [...]

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