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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 |
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Telegraph UK: 28/05/2008
As Kylie Minogue hits the landmark birthday, Jasper Gerard offers some sage advice. ’Kylie!” exclaimed a tabloid newspaper in wonder yesterday. “STILL fabulous at 40.” Well, what did they expect, as the much-loved, heroic chanteuse hits that milestone birthday today? Blue rinse, dentures and a wicker shopping basket? And just look at the others who have turned, or will turn, 40 in 2008: Daniel Craig, Lisa Marie Presley, Céline Dion, Patricia Arquette, Will Smith and Lucy Liu, a Charlie’s Angel celebrated for tight leather hot pants that she’s unlikely to be packing away any time soon.
In fact, none of the aforementioned is an obvious candidate for middle age as we once knew it. Not so long ago, 40-year-olds were thought to be in the grave, or making impressive strides towards it.
An unmarried woman like Kylie Minogue would not have been viewed as a glamourpuss “just spinning around” but as a spinster more likely to be Zimmering around in a rather sad fashion.
Not any more. Now there are entire industries devoted to reversing Newton’s law of gravity and the pursuit of eternal youth: thanks to diet, dentistry and exercise - and, for those less blessed than Kylie, cosmetic surgery - we can now look as peachy at 40 and beyond as we did at 30.
We’re not short of role models, either, in the baby boomers (Bill Clinton, Lulu, Sir Richard Branson, Grace Jones, Harrison Ford) who are trailblazing their way to their bus passes while continuing to flaunt youthful looks, fit bodies and fulfilling sex lives.
However, while it all helps, it doesn’t entirely ease the pain of reaching your 40th birthday - and I speak from recent experience. It remains the entry point to a club that none of us really wants to join: middle age.
It was a cruel moment when I awoke and found that a thief had come in the night for the last remnant of my youth, leaving a chilling calling card: “Happy 40th!” I tried to ignore the “loved ones” who were insisting on a party.
Instead, I was hit, very powerfully, by the thought that now is the time: that while I wasn’t yet approaching the finishing line, I was certainly no longer limbering up and waiting for the starting pistol.
Despite the relentless pressures of youth culture and our reluctance to embrace maturity, I would argue that turning 40 does demand a subtle change in demeanour. My generation has explored youth to its limit and is still tempted to do a Dorian Gray, in the manner of Madonna (50 this year) or Sir Mick Jagger (65 in July).
But trying so very hard to appear youthful merely highlights how mouldy one is underneath: Madge’s hands are bonier than those of Ena Sharples, while Jagger’s hipster jeans are bordering on the obscene.
It doesn’t have to be like this. No one looks at a suave Bryan Ferry (62) or David Bowie (61) and thinks: “My God, you look decrepit.” Still less Annie Lennox (53) or Chrissie Hynde (57).
They don’t construct absurd stage sets, do the splits, or simulate some after-the-watershed activity with a backing singer. They have adapted to age with dignity and grace, without compromising their talent or their capacity for enjoying themselves.
So no matter how good she looks - and it’s a million times better than she did with a frizzy perm and dungarees on Neighbours - I’d urge Kylie to follow suit.
Although her successful fight against breast cancer has made her a national treasure here and in her native Australia, there are worrying signs that she may try to fight the inevitable. Off-stage, she is a sublime vision of sexy elegance in Chanel; but on it, in her current KYLIEX2008 tour, there is still a hint of the showgirl that, if it continues, might begin to pall.
While her derrière continues to delight, as the sun goes down on her youth might not her hemlines also head a little lower? We adore Dame Judi Dench, too, but we don’t want to be seduced by her.
And while Madame Tussaud’s boasts a Kylie waxwork, heaven forbid that the waxwork ever gets to be more mobile than her. My wife gave me a personal trainer for my 40th, but after injuring my back weeding, I’ve spent more time with my osteopath.
Just as Lucy Liu should go easy on the karate kicks and Daniel Craig might do well to wear his trunks a little baggier in forthcoming Bond films, so Kylie might slow the disco beats. Explore the ballad, look lovelorn - it’s a good excuse for soft lighting.
Forty is too late for excuses; nothing can make up for time and opportunities lost. We must acknowledge that the illusion of eternal youth that sustained us through our thirties was, well, an illusion. But we can also embrace the gains of being 40.
There are some, honest. Confidence, for example: who among us would welcome back teenage insecurities? Or even a teenage complexion? And who’s to say that the years of our greatest hits don’t lie ahead?
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 |
Cynthia Nixon gave a very candid interview with the May issue MORE magazine about Sex and the City movie (Yay! Yay! Yay!), her divorce and her current relationship with her live-in girlfriend.
Nixon also revealed to Good Morning America today that she was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago and explained that she didn’t want to make it public then so paparazzi wouldn’t follow her to the hospital.
On turning 40: “Turning 40 was a very real thing for me. I felt it in a way that I didn’t when I turned 30 or 35. Forty was a peak: I could look forward and I could look back. I had to start thinking, the decisions I make count, and what are the thing I want to do? [Singing was something] I was definitely afraid of. It’s incredibly revealing and intense. Part of it was that my mother is a wonderful singer, and she encouraged me as an actress, but with the singing?-not so much.”
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008 |
“I remember turning 40 and really feeling spectacular, like, I feel substantial, I feel like I take up space. I know who I am, I know my strengths and weakness – and now I’m going to figure out what to do with them”
– Ellen Barkin during an interview with “More Magazine” U.S. edition – June 2007.
Photo by Wolf Photography
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008 |
Seems like turning 40 is THE thing to do. Here are 40 other people who are doing it this year too!
Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor (January 2)
John Singleton, American film director (January 6)
LL Cool J, American rapper and actor (January 14)
Chad Lowe, American actor (January 15)
Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast (January 24)
Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer (January 28)
Edward Burns, American actor (January 29)
Lisa Marie Presley, American singer (February 1)
Gary Coleman, American actor (February 
Molly Ringwald, American actress (February 18)
Jeri Ryan, American actress (February 22)
Daniel Craig, British actor (March 2)
Mark McGrath, American musician (March 15)
Kenny Chesney, American musician (March 26)
Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer (March 29)
Céline Dion, Canadian singer (March 30)
Patricia Arquette, American actress (April
Anthony Michael Hall, American actor (April 14)
Ashley Judd, American actress (April 19)
Tony Hawk, American skateboarder (May 12)
Kylie Minogue, Australian singer (May 28)
Jorja Fox, American actress (July 7)
Gillian Anderson, American actress (August 9)
Eric Bana, Australian actor (August 9)
Debra Messing, American actress (August 15)
Rachael Ray, American television chef (August 25)
Will Smith, American rapper and actor (September 25)
James Caviezel, American actor (September 26)
Naomi Watts, English-born actress (September 28)
Jane Krakowski, American actress (October 11)
Hugh Jackman, Australian actor (October 12)
Shaggy, Jamaican singer (October 22)
Vanilla Ice, American rapper (October 31)
Parker Posey, American actress (November
Sammy Sosa, Major League Baseball player (November 12)
Owen Wilson, American actor (November 18)
Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress (November 25)
Lucy Liu, American actress (December 2)
Margaret Cho, Korean-American comedian (December 5)
Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress (December 18)
List compiled by Andi of List-O-Rama
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008 |
From the Daily Mail
Lonely Kylie Minogue wasn’t looking forward to waking up this morning.
The unlucky-in-love singer said in an interview published today: “I’m ignoring Valentine’s Day.”
Although sources have linked Kylie to her ex-lover Olivier Martinez again in the last few weeks, it seems the singer is shunning all things romantic as she spends this Valentine’s with her female friends.
Kylie says she’s ignoring Valentine’s Day and will be spending the evening with her friends
Kylie has made no secret of the fact she’s desperate to find the love of her life, settle down and have a family. She has been quoted as saying: “That’s still something I would love to happen.”
But she said: “I honestly don’t have a feeling one way or the other if I will ever walk town the aisle.”
So today of all days can’t be easy for the singer.
She revealed: “I’m boycotting it all, what’s the point because I’ve nobody special in my life at the moment. I will be celebrating with my girlfriend instead because it’s her birthday…so not your traditional Valentine’s Day.”
And it’s not just this Hallmark day that makes her want to reach for the Kleenex. The former Neighbours star, who scooped Woman of the Year at the Elle Style Awards earlier this week, is turning 40 on 28 May but she’d rather think of anything else right now.
She added: “I’m not looking forward to my 40th but I guess I have to get excited about it. I’m a rubbish party planner so normally I don’t bother, but I guess I have to this time round, I’ll just get my pal William [Baker] to help.”
Kylie also confessed: “I don’t want a huge party, I just want a few friends round. I mean turning 40 isn’t really something to celebrate is it? I’d rather ignore it.”
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 |
Actress MONIQUE loved turning 40 - because the older she is, the better her sex life gets. The larger-than-life star hit the landmark age in December (07), and she is already reaping the benefits. She explains her midlife joy: “I’m experiencing something so different and liberating. “Everybody says 40 is the new 20. But I don’t want it to be the new 20. Everything is so better now. At 20, sexually, you don’t know what you’re doing. You look for it, you find it, you lose it a few times.”
http://www.1monique.com/
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 |
Debra Messing’s latest character in The Starter Wife tackles heartache with humour, although she is quick to say that her latest character have little in common. As Molly Kagan, the Emmy award-winning actor is a 40-something Hollywood mogul’s wife whose only goal in life is to look good and make her husband happy — until he dumps her.
But it’s not the differences in life experiences that the happily married Messing wishes to distance herself from; it’s her character’s age.
“Molly is a really funny, smart artistic woman who is a loyal friend and an honest person. Oh, by the way, she’s older,” Messing, 39, says.
“Molly is older than Debra, let’s make that very clear. And thinner. And prettier. And taller.”
In real life, Messing has been married to screenwriter Daniel Zelman since 2000. The couple have a child, Roman, who was born four years ago when Messing was playing Grace Adler in the hit comedy Will & Grace.
Will & Grace made Messing and the rest of the cast — Eric McCormack, Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes — household names during its eight-year run. But stardom didn’t guarantee roles post-Will & Grace for any of its four stars.
Before landing the starring role in The Starter Wife, Messing lamented that finding work had been difficult after being in a mega-hit sitcom.
The red-haired actor, who has often been described as the new Lucille Ball because of her impeccable comic timing, told reporters that for every 100 scripts there are only two roles; one earmarked for Cameron Diaz, the other for Julia Roberts.
That was, of course, until she read the script for The Starter Wife.
“I read this six-part epic and kept wanting to read more and more,” she says.
“It didn’t lose me and it excited me. It made me laugh, it moved me and it surprised me.
“I have never played a part like this before, not even remotely.
“You see her going through such big life challenges such as divorce — especially being 40 and in LA.”
Turning 40 herself this year, Messing says she understands how difficult it must be for a woman to have to re-evaluate their role in life in youth-obsessed Hollywood.
She says the prospect of playing a character whose life is in total upheaval was also part of what attracted her to it in the first place.
Best known for playing disorganised and neurotic characters such as Stacey in Ned and Stacey and more recently interior designer Grace in Will & Grace, Messing says playing Molly offers an exciting new acting challenge.
“I think Starter Wife is really about rebirth,” she says.
“To find herself 40 and starting over, it’s a challenge because everyone wants to date the 25-year-old model and I think Molly approaches it with a great sense of humour and without fear.
“When you meet her, Molly is a very organised and efficient supportive wife. Then there is the tidal wave of the divorce and she is shaken up, as one would be, in having to figure out what this means and how she got to where she is and what she wants to be and what sort of person does she want to become.
“All of these questions are provocative and rattling. She struggles and has a great sense of humour throughout.”
The Starter Wife was intended to be a six-part mini-series filmed on the Gold Coast, but has proven so popular that a second 10-part series has been given the green light for 2008, a prospect that excites Messing.
“It’s heaven working with all of the talent that’s on this project,” she says. “It’s always about the team of people that you get to work with. From the top with the writers to Jon Avnet, the director, to Judy Davis, Joe Mantegna and Miranda Otto, the quality of artists on this project is consistent and stellar.”
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007 |
Actress Julia Roberts is happy to spend more time with her family than working. But she finds new movie ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ worth it.The sun.co.uk reports that Roberts did not have a problem playing a woman in her 30s though she herself is in her 40s.
She said: ‘I didn’t have any problems. If they asked me to play 30, I would do so without thinking. If anything, I just wanted to look like. She is open about having plastic surgery and so I was trying to do things with my face to make it appear as if I was 50, but had had some work done.
‘I wore tapes under my wig and tried to pull my face in different ways. It was challenging - one of those rare times where you go, ‘My face is just too tight already’.’
She added: ‘Turning 40 was great. I guess I feel relieved because everybody anticipates it so much for you that now we can all just relax - it’s done. I had a lovely party with all my kids and we had a great time. Getting older is nice. You are released from certain concepts as you age.’
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Friday, December 14th, 2007 |
Uma Thurman is on the cover of the January issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Here is an excerpt:
On life and turning 40: “‘Watch out, you might not have a career in your 20s’, so you scoot along and have some dark, down years. Suddenly, you get a career back and it’s ‘Watch out, in your 30s it’s going to be over.’ And God forbid you have a child. I remember telling an agent I was going to have a baby, and he said, ‘Oh, that’s great for you, but don’t even think about the business.’ Just so blatant! No one’s brought up the 40 thing with me lately, but I’m sure the prognosis is going to be doom and gloom. But no decade has been disastrous, and I’ve gotten away with murder anyway.”
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007 |
Actor Josh Brolin says it is good to grow old and he looks forward to turning 40.
Brolin currently stars in film drama “No Country for Old Men” from writers/directors Joel and Ethan Coen. The movie debuted in major cities two weeks ago and begins a nationwide run on Wednesday with hopes of vying for Oscars.
The son of James Brolin — a television actor and husband of Barbra Streisand — Josh turns 40 in February.
Raised outside Hollywood on a California ranch, the younger Brolin has built a varied career on his own, and this fall is commanding attention in dramas “In the Valley of Elah” and “American Gangster.”
If “No Country” climbs box office charts and does compete for awards as expected in Hollywood, its success will be in no small part due to Brolin’s performance as an aging Texas cowboy with one shot to get rich by stealing a drug dealer’s money.
Brolin told Reuters that with age comes maturity and with that, greater insight and depth to the roles he plays, as well as to his own writing and directing when he is not acting.
“It’s exciting for me,” he said. “I’m not excited for my bones exactly, but I am excited for my brain and my emotions.
“Plus, you get to where you don’t mind being embarrassed or humiliated on set to find an emotion or do justice to a role. It’s a lot less self-conscious, which is freeing.”
Initially in “No Country,” which is based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, audiences are led to believe Brolin’s character, Llewelyn Moss, is either greatly lucky or incredibly dumb when he stumbles onto a crime scene and takes a suitcase full of cash.
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Monday, November 12th, 2007 |
Although ‘Casino Royale’ star Daniel Craig dreads turning 40 soon, he has vowed to grow old gracefully and not resort to cosmetic surgery.
Dailysnack.com quoted him as saying: ‘People can improve themselves when they are younger, but when they turn 60 or 70 they start to look like a freak. You end up looking like a lesbian big sister.’
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Monday, October 29th, 2007 |
New Zealand Times
Actress Julia Roberts has the birthday blues and is fretting about the horror of turning 40, reveals this week’s Woman’s Weekly.
But luckily the mother-of-three has her family to help her through the stressful time.
“She told one pal, ‘Shoot, I’m almost an old lady. Is there any fun after 40?’,” said a source close to the star.
Apparently Julia doesn’t like to think she’s getting older and starting to show it.
“She examined her face in the mirror recently and said jokingly, ‘Oh God, I’m a hag!’ In fact she’s still a ravishingly beautiful woman with a stunning smile and the brightest eyes you can imagine,” said the source. “But she is getting wrinkles and they concern her. There are laugh lines around her eyes and mouth. She’s not vain and won’t consider plastic surgery but she does believe in really taking care of her skin and is very careful about what she puts on her face - just the slightest makeup, even for the poshest events.”
But Julia’s husband, cameraman Danny Moder, is giving her all the TLC she needs to usher her into her fifth decade.
The couple apparently try hard to keep a real sizzle in their marriage. “Danny buys her exciting frillies and makes sure she models them for him. And Julia writes love notes and naughty messages to him.”
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007 |
Anuj Saxena is happy to have turned 40 and says life has just begun
You just turned 40… how does it feel?
I feel good. I don’t feel I’m 40. It’s all a perception in the mind. Age and life is what you make of it. Let’s not forget life begins at 40.
They say at 40 men turn naughty…
(Laughs) I’ve always been naughty. So the question of turning naughty doesn’t arise.
Has your idea of love changed compared to earlier?
When I was in my 20s it was more one-night stands and fun! Today the one-night stands are still there, but a meaningful relationship is always appreciated.
Is there somebody special in your life?
Yes and no. There is someone. I hope it turns special. That remains to be seen.
You were married once. Are you open to marriage again?
Definitely. I am completely a family guy. I love kids and I would like to settle down, but this time for the right reasons.
You agree 40 is the new 30…
So I have been told. In my case probably it’s the new 20!
In the glamour world where most people lie about their age, you are an exception…
Along with women nowadays even men seem to be getting better with age. If you see top stars, both in Hollywood and Bollywood, they are all 40-plus. I never lie about age.
People trying to hide their age are only fooling themselves.
With time, you seem to have accelerated your work pace…
Absolutely. There’s much more I want to do today than I wanted to yesterday. There’s a whole wide world still waiting to be conquered.
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007 |
Nicole Kidman has a lot to celebrate.It is its fortieth birthday this week, and perhaps in a paramount way, it is its first birthday of marriage with urban the Keith husband.But Nicole almost never did it with this one year old mark. An accident terrifying on the whole of its film, “the invasion,” in January sent to the hospital with serious damage. Nicole was stripping by scene for the account with suspense sci-fi when the car which it was inside suddenly flew out of the order. “I struck in a post,” it explained. “I was concussed and really broke some veins. Something for film! ”But Nicole is cured now and fabulous pretence while it turns 40. “I think that I arranged inside to appreciate my life,” it indicated. It appreciates its marriage with Keith even after the country holds the first role fought to become sober in the rehab.Are they thus the children in the future? Nicole would not say, demanding it could not drop such a bomb on television public, but with a smile, it said “additional expenses” which they are “infinitely in the love.”
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 |
Katie Button writes
It seems that if you are an actress in Hollywood (and I suspect most women in la la land would harbour such aspirations), the best place for you is TV. Taking a look at the Emmy nominations, I was interested to note how many of the women nominated had previously been stars of the silver screen. Okay, so this trend for actors to migrate from films to TV is nothing new, but it is seriously all the rage for (how shall we put this?) ‘women of a certain age’.
Yep – if you’re a female over 40 in Hollywood, you’re often shown the door. But now it seems like that door is one to the top TV networks. I don’t know if it was due to the unprecedented success of Sex and the City that suddenly a programme could focus on women and not girls. Proper hair-growing-in-wrong-places, know-how-to-clean-a-toilet women. And not just as an obligatory wife/girlfriend/sister/mother side-show, or as one of many in a mixed sex ensemble – but the main event. Since Carrie and co. invited us into their world of cosmopolitans, Manola Blahniks and modelizers we’ve had Desperate Housewives and Weeds pick up where they left off with women enjoying the limelight. Taking a look at some of the other top US shows at the moment and those soon about to air, middle-aged women seem to have suddenly become in fashion.
Patricia Arquette was probably most famous for her family connections (sister to David and Rosanna, sister-in-law to Courteney Cox, ex-wife to Nicholas Cage and wife to Punisher star Tom Jane), but with Medium she has re-introduced us to her and her acting talents. At 39 she was by no means washed up, but her film roles prior to starring in Medium had become unattractive blots on her CV. Now, she has won an Emmy for playing Allison Dubois in the supernatural crime drama and could be heading for that podium again come September.
She’ll have her work cut out for her though as she takes on Mrs. Kevin Bacon, better known as Kyra Sedgwick. The 42 year old has won Satellite, Gracie Allen and Golden Globe awards for her part as Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson in The Closer and goes from strength to strength in the drama. Whereas once she was ignored on the arm of her film star husband, now she commands the attention of snapping paparazzi.
A veteran of films, double Oscar winner Sally Field has done it all. Now she has added TV to her resume, with her commanding central performance as Nora Walker in family saga Brothers and Sisters. Field is joined on the show by Calista Flockhart and Rachel Griffiths, also both over 40 and turning out some of the best acting of their careers.
Proving that TV truly is far from a depressing come down for former film stars, Oscar winner Holly Hunter and Glenn Close are also soon to be seen on US TV. Hunter will play Oklahoma City police detective Grace Hanadarko in Saving Grace, while after her spell on The Shield, Close has her own show Damages, where she play tough defence attorney Patty Hewes.
We don’t seem to have gotten the message here in the UK, (Grumpy Old Women, anyone?) but as we tend to emulate the trends of American entertainment, there is hope for us yet.
Katie Button contributes to Star Trip and TV Scoop and is all for women on TV having wrinkles.
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Friday, July 20th, 2007 |
By Missy, Celebrity Baby Blog Writer
In the summer issue of O At Home magazine, cover girlMariska Hargitay, 43, said “it’s such a blessing to get things later in life” — and she should know. As mom to son August, turning 1 later this month, wife to actor Peter Hermann, whom she married in 2004, and winner of an Emmy award in 2006, Mariska’s life has changed dramatically in recent years.
To become successful later in life, to get married later and have a baby … I’m a better wife, better mother, better actor. I have the perfect life, and I want to take out an ad: HANG IN THERE LADIES! As my father always said, ‘Life is what you make it.’
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Sunday, June 17th, 2007 |
Sinead O’ Connor earlier this year, in Dublin.
Photo: Supplied
She’s had four children to four men, recorded 10 albums in two decades, and changed religion several times. Sinead O’Connor tells Paula McGinley that turning 40 has finally brought her peace of mind.
Now here’s a thing. She once tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II and, some years later, was ordained as Mother Bernadette Marie by a breakaway Catholic sect. Opprobrium stuck to Sinead O’Connor like a nylon chasuble. But next month, the singer will have the chattering classes spluttering into their tea again with an appearance on the BBC’s Songs of Praise.
O’Connor’s Irish tour manager Paddy, can’t believe his luck. “It’s great, isn’t it?” he twinkles. “You’ll have to dress up,” he says, eyeing O’Connor in her navy tracksuit pants and scuzzy slippers that might have been white once. She frowns and draws on her cigarette: mainstream exposure comes at a price.
O’Connor lives in Monkstown, an unprepossessing Dublin suburb. The gaudy statue of Our Lady on the doorstep of the imposing Georgian house gives a clue to the rebel within. Inside, it’s reassuringly messy: toys strewn over the floor, two bouncy labradors vying for attention and children’s drawings stuck on walls and kitchen units. O’Connor’s bearded 20-year-old son, Jake, makes tea. He’s a strapping lad, all skateboarder chic, and next to him O’Connor stands like his awkward kid sister.
She is polite but edgy, shooting darting glances around the kitchen - a big-eyed woodland creature disturbed from its nest. Stripped of make-up, her skin is unlined, although the trademark crop now comes with titanium streaks.
When she does eventually make eye contact, you’re taken back with a jolt to the Nothing Compares 2 U video and that luminous close-up of her beautiful face.
There’s a perceptible tremor in her hands as she lights up again. She explains she was very upset by an interview the day before, so upset and depressed that she went straight to bed after it was over. “I was crying my eyes out this morning,” she says huskily. After 25 years of making her music, O’Connor still doesn’t understand why the things she’s said and done in the past make her an easy target.
This could be a little disingenuous - tearing up pictures of the Pope live on television is meat and drink to the media - but O’Connor is genuinely puzzled by the reaction she engenders.
“This Italian woman interviewed me yesterday and she was half my f—ing age and she’s sitting here telling me what a bizarre, crazy person I am. It’s like they think I’m going to jump up and hit them,” she says, puffing furiously. “It’s insulting. My kids are running around in the kitchen and I’m sitting here with someone telling me I’m crazy and I can’t stand up for myself. If I do stand up for myself, I’m proving these people right so I just go quiet and I don’t know what to do.”
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Friday, June 15th, 2007 |
Pamela Anderson has “no problem” turning 40 on July 1.The former “Baywatch” star - who began her birthday celebrations early by partying with fellow PETA supporters - believes “40 is the new 20.”
Pammie said: “I have no problem with being 40. I think 40 is the new 20.”
The blonde actress, who is an ardent animal rights campaigner, enjoyed a vegan meal at Florida’s Sublime restaurant on Tuesday. She looked stunning in a figure-hugging red dress and all eyes were on the birthday girl as she blew out the candles on her huge cake.
Pammie - who shared her party with PETA President Ingrid Newkirk - was eager to celebrate the landmark birthday with people who share her passion for animal rights. She reportedly turned down several nightclubs who offered to throw a birthday party for her.
Meanwhile, the sexy star is set to receive a reported $3 million for her 12-minute stint in Las Vegas illusionist Hans Klok’s show. Pamela appears as Klok’s assistant in his Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino summer show, ‘The Beauty of Magic.’
A source said: “This is an easy summer gig for Pammie - 12 minutes per show, four shows weekly.”
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007 |
(Daily Mail)
Updated: 2007-06-08 10:52 
Still super model Cindy Crawford shows off the form which earned her a ¡ê25million fortune as one of the world’s leading cover stars.
At a photo-shoot on a Malibu beach, the 40-year-old mother-of-two, oozes sex appeal as she displays her enviable figure in a one-piece swimming costume.
Clearly still focused on her glamorous job, the catwalk beauty has kept her model-ready figure by sticking to a high-protein diet and a rigorous exercise regime of Pilates, cardio work and yoga.
Cindy admits her slender size 8 figure came naturally to her when she was younger, but has said she appreciates it much more now because of the effort she has to put in to maintain it.
After she reaching her milestone 40th birthday, Cindy said in an interview: “When I was 23, other women could look at me and say ‘Well, she’s never had kids’. But now I have and I know what it’s like to have to lose baby weight.
“I’m actually happier with my body now than I was back then, because the body I have now is the body I’ve worked for.”
In another shot, Crawford wears a sailor hat at a jaunty angle, and looks alluringly at the camera. Crawford was one of a group of models who earned the super tag in the early 90s. They were: Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Helen Christensen and Claudia Schiffer.
Crawford who has two children, Kaya and Presley, with husband Rande Gerber admitted her stunning good looks are not purely a result of daily two-hour workouts.
Buxom Cindy has kept her model-ready figure by sticking to a high-protein diet and a rigorous exercise regime of Pilates, cardio work and yoga.
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