Lovely Mommy, Jessica Alba graces the March 2009 cover of Elle.

ELLE: You agreed to the concept for our shoot without ever seeing any of the designers’ clothes before. That’s pretty brave.

JA: I’m all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living. I was always a slave to the commerce end of [acting]—I needed to survive, make a living, get some grounding in the business. These guys probably aren’t making any money now, but at least they won’t be 50 and say, “Dammit, my dream was to be a designer.” They’re making it happen at 22.

ELLE: And they’re cute.

JA: So cute! I was telling my friend last night, You must have to be beautiful, very, very thin, ultracool, and very young to be a new designer these days.

ELLE: Sounds like being an actress.

JA: Not really, no.

ELLE: You don’t think being beautiful and thin has helped you?

JA: You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

ELLE: True, but it’s hard to name an A-lister who’s not sample-size.

JA: It’s interesting that A-list also means commercially viable, versus being Frances McDormand, who’s amazing and A-list to me but doesn’t sell as many tickets.

ELLE: And doesn’t headline movies.

JA: She’ll probably have a more fulfilling career and a more fulfilling life, and maybe doesn’t need to make $20 million to be okay.

ELLE: Still, you snapped back into shape pretty fast after giving birth.

JA: I did it for the Campari job. [The workouts] were horrible. I cried. And I haven’t worked out since.

ELLE: Did you have to do anything besides exercise?

JA: I wore a girdle. Eight weeks after my girlfriend had her baby, you could see her six-pack. She told me to put an elastic band around my waist—any kind of band or girdle works. She was like, “I slept in it.” I didn’t recover as fast as she did. I don’t have a sixpack—that’s just not my body at all.

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The beautiful Reese Witherspoon shares will Elle Magazine that she has been reading Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, Outliers, which attempts to explain why some people gain unusual success. (Love Gladwell, btw) Witherspoon was, she says, “struck by the idea that to be a master at anything, you have to have 10,000 hours of practice at it. And that is what you accumulate over a lifetime. And I started when I was 14, working and working and working.”

On her divorce: “Very humiliating and very isolating…But, by the way, if it’s not painful, maybe it wasn’t the right decision to marry to begin with. Those are the appropriate emotions. When people get in your face and say, ‘This will pass,’ you think, Are they crazy? I’m never gonna feel any better than I feel right this minute and nothing’s ever gonna make sense again. And I still have moments where I’m like, Nothings ever gonna make sense again.”

On dealing with the pain that stems from divorce: “You see a lot of people play this blame game. Blame, blame, blame. You know? And it’s a really easy thing to do, and I’m certainly guilty of it. [You have to] look at yourself and go, ‘What part of this do I need to own? Which part of this is my responsibility? And that’s the painful work that you have to go through to hopefully get some real life knowledge out of it.”

On boyfriend, Jake Gyllenhaal: “He’s fabulous. He really is a fantastic guy. Unfortunately, he’s not in the movie, so we can’t really talk about him.”

On being a young mother: “When I first had Ava, I couldn’t afford [help]. And it was so hard. I was out in Los Angeles, living [away from my family]. I really didn’t have any friends. And I had a baby,” she says, laughing. “No one else who was 22 had a baby. I couldn’t go out.”

A tight circle of girlfriends  became her “salvation,” she says. “That’s always been the center of my life, female friendships. I’ll drop anything for a friend.” “It’s hard having kids. It’s hard having a job. It’s hard having a relationship–for anybody.”

On her reported Type A personality: “I don’t think I’m a control freak. I think I’m just fearful. I operate from a lot of fear, like, of things being lost or forgotten or neglected. Losing the spiritual rather than the physical. It’s so funny to me that somehow I’ve been portrayed as a very, like, closed-off or uptight person. I’m very open.”

On the paparazzi: “Fascination is gonna die off. I honestly know it. But it’s just like I keep waiting and waiting, and then it’s just more tabloid magazines, and it keeps going. I don’t take a shower everyday. I don’t put on makeup everyday. I wear a lot of sunglasses, in case you noticed.”

On not being diet obsessed: “I’m made of cookies after the holidays. Everything inside me is made of sugar and flour and a little red wine–a lot of red wine.”

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The beautiful Jennifer Connelly graces the cover of Glamour Magazine’s March 2009 issue. 38-year-old Connelly stars in the upcoming romantic comedy He’s Just Not That Into You.  Read the full interview here.

Photos: Glamour

Our favorite celebrities looked stunning on the Red Carpet at the 2009 Golden Globe Awards held on Sunday, January 11th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Angelina Jolie (above) looked simple and radiant in a beautiful Atelier Versace gown.

High School Musical sweethearts Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens (above) look gorgeous together.  Vanessa looked young and fresh in a beautiful, intricate floor-grazing Alberta Ferretti gown. Zac wore a Burberry suit.

21-year old Evan Rachel Wood (above) was both glamorous and adventurous in her  black Elie Saab dress.

Kate Winslet (33) looked regal and elegant in black Yves Saint Laurent along side Revolutionary Road co-star Leonard DiCaprio.

Kate took home the “Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture” for Revolutionary Road. Kate beat out Angelina Jolie, Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and Kristin Scott Thomas.  Kate also picked up a Globe for “Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture” for her work in The Reader. Congratulations!

Olivia Wilde (top left), the 24-year-old House M.D. actress wore a lavendar Reem Acra gown.

The 36-year-old, Cameron Diaz (top right)looked lovely in a pretty, pink taffeta Chanel Haute Couture dress from the 2008/09 Fall/Winter collection.

Source: JJ, GG

The 39-year-old Australian mother of three young boys, looks incredible in the Cleopatra inspired John Galliano gown (above).

Oscar award winner (for The Aviator in 2004), Blanchett stars opposite Brad Pitt in the recently released The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

The film is rumored to have cost $175 million due to the expensive special effect that centers around a man who lives his live in reverse – born old and becomes younger with each year.

This tragic love story is the metaphor of a life lived backwards and is a beautiful tale of love, loss, and death.

“If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles—you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you’re brother and sister,” Blanchett observes.

“That’s what intimacy is, if you’re with your soul mate. Marriage is a risk; I think it’s a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.”

Blanchett has been married for 11 years to Andrew Upton, an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and director.

Intelligent and well mannered, Blanchett is the consummate professional. Her Benjamin Button director, Fincher praises Blanchett as “so smart, capable, facile, thoughtful, beautiful, and emotionally present.”

Read the full article here.

Source: Vanity Fair

Glorious Victoria Beckham, mother of three young boys (Brooklyn, 9; Romeo, 6; and Cruz, 3) and the wife of sports icon David Beckham graces the cover of Bazaar.  In her candid article she shares a glimpse of what it’s like to walk in her “nine inch heels.”

On her image: “I go into hair and makeup, and I turn into ‘Victoria Beckham.’ I’ll try on all my dresses, and I’ll pick out a handbag, and I’ll put on the shades. I instantly turn into this person, and it sort of feels like a character. And there are so many pictures of it. But it’s a true character because it’s still me.

Victoria does let herself go occasionally. “I run around the house in a tracksuit sometimes!” she protests. What sort of tracksuit? “A fabulous one.” When out and about, she always pulls a look together. “If I go to the supermarket looking like shit, that affects my work. I am selling an image. Plus, I have fun with it.”

On a daughter one day: “I’m such a girl’s girl,” Victoria says. “I walk into my closet and go, ‘Crikey!’ To one day hand that down to another girl …” But no, she is not pregnant. “You get a little water retention; it’s not news. Me, Katie, Eva, and Kate always joke about how one of us is allegedly pregnant, but no, we’re just a little bloated today! None of us is pregnant.”

Love the story that Victoria shares about how David surprised her with a trip to England to renew their wedding vows. The two boarded a private plane filled with flowers. “David was wearing a tracksuit, but then he went to the bathroom and came out in a tuxedo. I was like, ‘Um, I should have made more of an effort.’ But then he gave me this gorgeous white Cavalli dress, with matching shoes and two different options of handbags.” They arrived at their home in Hertfordshire, where they were met by their families and remarried “by the same vicar who first married us.” Back to the jet, “where we had Nobu onboard. Then we flew to Paris, where we stayed at the Coco Chanel Suite at the Ritz.” Still in the Cavalli? Victoria smiles girlishly. “Oh, no, David gave me another dress. An Alaïa.”

Full article here.

Behind-the-scenes video here.