Scarlett Johansson Does Glamour magazine (November 2009)
30 Sep
Scarlett Johansson is the cover girls for November 2009 issue of Glamour magazine. Interview highlights and inside pics after the jump!
On weight: “I want to look good, obviously. I don’t want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. That’s why I take care of myself when I work…. But I don’t feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don’t feel like I have to fit into a body that’s not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it.
If you open up a magazine and there’s a photograph of you with a giant red circle around your thigh, like, look at this cellulite, any person—I don’t care what you do—would be mortified. It’s no wonder people get crazy about it.
My parents never put a lot of pressure on us to be any kind of way…. I have [my] funny moments where I look at myself and think, Oh, this is a disaster. But you have to give yourself a reality check and go, All right, if I feel this way, I’m going to do something about it that’s healthy. I can’t look at somebody who is 6 feet tall and 120 pounds and say, I’m going to get that body. That’s just never going to happen. You have to work with what you’ve got.”
On sexuality: “It was a weird phenomenon, but at the time, being 17, 18, 19, I kind of embraced it. You’re realizing your own sexuality at that time, and you’re kind of coming into your own womanhood, so it felt natural…. But I don’t think about being sexy, being seductive. What you don’t want to see is somebody trying to be sexy. That’s the most unsexy thing.”
On getting married: “I never really thought about getting married—it just kind of happened.… You hope that a relationship makes you better, that you learn things about yourself.… I feel more confident to explore things within myself that I hadn’t thought about in the past.
I think the only difference is that I’m kind of making my own little family now, which is funny. It’s like a little bit of a tribe. You hope that a relationship makes you better, that you learn things about yourself. You’ve had this one view, and now you have another view. I feel more confident to explore things within myself that I hadn’t thought about in the past…. My parents divorced when I was 13, so it was not the ideal representation of marriage.”
On the red carpet: “I have a tumultuous relationship with it because I love to get ready for the red carpet, but being on it is very uncomfortable. It’s so freakish and weird. I get flop sweats, dry mouth, heart palpitations, allover panic!”
