Last week, we had an early preview and some quotes from Kristen Stewart’s Harper’s Bazaar UK cover, editorial and cover interview. The editorial was lovely, and the interview wasn’t as awkward and twitchy as Kristen’s usual shtick. Well, Bazaar has released more quotes from the interview and… I don’t know. I’m not “mad” at Kristen and I don’t think she sounds flat-out stupid, but I feel like she needs to figure out a better way to do interviews, a better way to express herself. Some new excerpts:
Kristen on her style: “I either like being really sexy or insanely androgynous. I’m not great at applying make-up myself. My mom never taught me anything, she doesn’t wear make-up…I like mineral make-up. You can’t screw it up and it’s not bad for your skin.”
She’ll never have plastic surgery: “No, never. Never. I am so freaked out by the idea of doing anything. And maybe that’s completely arrogant but I don’t want to change anything about myself. I think the women who do are losing their minds. It’s vandalism.”
Her “messy” hair: “I don’t like having nice hair, ever. There’s something about it that pushes me over into feeling like I’m wearing a costume. So long as I can have my hair the way it normally is, then I can do everything else full on.”
Her workouts: “When I’m in good shape I can do 40 push-ups in one go. If I’m not in good shape, I can do 10. If I am trying to get into shape and I want to be strong, I’ll drop and do 20 every half hour throughout the day. I can do 250 push-ups in a day, which is pretty impressive. At the moment, I can do 20 comfortably. It takes me about a month to get into phenomenal shape with a trainer.”
I can’t do push-ups. No, let me restate that… I don’t give a crap about push-ups so I never try. I do weight training on my arms, of course, but the idea of judging my workouts solely on how many push-ups I can do? That’s so weird to me. As for the rest of it… her comments about plastic surgery are interesting. I think it’s pretty easy when you look like Kristen Stewart to say “I don’t want to change anything about myself.” For the rest of us? Yeah, of course there are smaller and bigger things we would like to change and no, it’s not “vandalism.”
Here are some photos of Kristen out in LA yesterday. She met up with a friend outside of a studio and she smoked a cigarette. THOSE PANTS THOUGH.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, cover courtesy of Bazaar UK.
“I don’t think that word means what you think it means.”
You can be totally happy with yourself without being arrogant. And then she definitely does take it too far by equating little appearance changes to vandalism. She has and issue with words. Words, words words.
I want to get in great shape and be strong *between puffs of cigarette smoke*.
Anyone?
If she keeps smoking the cancer sticks she’ll be looking old before her time and likely rethinking committing vandalism on her face.
Besides, you can’t really pay attention to someone with such an obvious, and severe, case of PDM (Perpetual Diarrhea of the Mouth).
Why isn’t smoking lung vandalism to her?
+1,000,000
Exactly my thought. Talking about fitness while being a smoker. Hypocrite. And yeah – you want your hair to be able to be dirty and stinky everyday. Something positive: She looks really pretty on that cover.
“Smoker” is not an antonym to “fit”. It’s not like she claimed to be super health conscious
PLEASE. I’d wreck this chick in a push-up contest.
FK YA KITTEN!
*chest bump, bro*
*bumps chest*
Ow! Stupid boobs…
Wonder if she’s talking about modified push-ups (the one where your knees are on the ground). Highly doubt that she’s doing 250 of them a day, though.
Pffffft! Those are NOT real push-ups.
I can push up that little stick at the bottom of a creamsicle.
I can do some but hate how my arms feel like jelly the day after..
You could try wide push-ups? You feel those more in your chest and less in your arms.
Push-ups get easier the more you do them, like anything else.
For some reason I hate regular push-ups but I LOVE tricep push-ups. But yes, jelly arms, I’m with you Blue.
Whaaaat? Tricep push-ups are the worst. They’re so awkward.
With our mutual fondness for the Bloke, I’m surprised we wouldn’t see eye-to-eye on this, Marty.
But they work sooo well!
I guess tattoos and push-ups are our lines, but The Bloke can always bring us back together! 😉
lol! I’m sure you could!
But frankly, I probably could too, because seriously………when has KStew ever been in “phenomenal shape”? The girl is thin, but I’ve never seen her with any muscle tone at all. Ever!
Vandalism? Says the person who inked her body permanently.
With respect, grow up. Tattooing is an ancient way of decorating andcelebrating your own body. It’s called ART for a reason.
She wasn’t saying tattoos were a bad thing. She was using it as an example of the hypocrisy.
I think Jenna was just pointing out the irony of Kristin equating tweaking your appearance to vandalism, when she has tattoos and that is another way of tweaking your appearance. But I hear what you’re saying too, Oobe, I’m all about tattoos. I just don’t think Jenna was being a #tattooshamer 😉
Thank you, Shambles. That’s exactly what I meant. I swear some people are easily annoyed.
I think tattoos and plastic surgery are not equal in terms of intrusive procedures. Vandalism can mean doing destruction or damage so I took it as a reference to plastic surgery “s intrusiveness. A lot t of plastic surgery requires major surgery and cutting open your body and going under so there’s a risk factor you need take into consideration when you choose to do it . No such issues with tattoos.
she is insufferable and she doesn’t know the definition of arrogant.
Or vandalism.
I don’t get how people talk about fitness and they smoke. That’s like saying you are a vegetarian but you eat steak.
You just need to look at her to realise that she doesn’t work out regularly.
This. For 250 push-up a day she should have guns.
She’s thin and has a great shape, but she’s not fit.
Exactly. She always has a soft look to her shape. She is one of those people who is naturally slender, but she’s never looked like someone who visits the gym.
I read she called herself skinny fat once. No tone. But young enough she has no cellulite…yet.
I don’t get it, either. Kristen’s smoked like a chimney since she was about sixteen. I really doubt she’s ever been in “phenomenal” shape.
Always the insufferable, pretentious, spoiled Hollywood brat
^yes.
Push ups are the best single whole body exercise, seriously, they’re not just for arms. if you only have time for one exercise, make it push ups.
Here here. Great for your core
I agree. They engage a whole lot of muscles, not just your arms.
I. think calling plastic surgery vandalism is a little hyperbolic, but she always phrases things weirdly. But even if I don’t like things about myself I do think plastic surgery is a very extreme solution for not being satisfied with a physical feature. I think our culture gets overly neurotic about beauty standards and remembering to keep it all in perspective is important.
I agree, I think she just worded it poorly.
My problem with plastic surgery is the social pressures that inspire it. I know of an adult woman who got a rhinoplasty after feeling she was losing out on jobs and dates, etc. It is a drastic step but in some cases, a practical one.
Beauty has its own currency and someone who looks like Kristen has the luxury of dismissing plastic surgery. As she ages and faces barriers and discrimination for that, the temptation to “vandalize” herself might feel different.
I think there is a vandalism aspect in the kardashian phenomenon. It seems that some people, at some point in a series of surgeries, lose the ability to reasonably assess what they look like. Kim’s recent face and butt, Kylie’s lips and odd chin job, I think, are early signs of Joan Rivers or even Jocelyn what’s-her-name pathological commitment to alteration.
I would change my nose if I could afford it. And maybe will in the future. I wanted it since my 15 yold and I’m 30 now. I never missed anything on life because of it, but the insecurity is there all the time. I’m not perfect but that’s the only thing I would change. There are many different reasons why people may want to change themselves and yes there’s a pressure to look a certain way but many women feel disfigured in some ways that brings them a lot of pain. I have a friend who had disproportioned breasts and she grew up feeling like shit and her life changed when she finally got breasts who had the same size. She was a different person for the better and never looked back. There’s such thing as doing it for the right reasons and imo that’s something each person should evaluate by themselves. And I ask this, is having teeth braces for aesthetic reasons much different?…
@ nina and lemon: fully agree with everything.
I thought maybe she was talking about those people who reconstruct their faces entirely (i.e the Ken doll wanna-be) rather than someone who tweaks a nose.
The word is a bit extreme, but considering how beautiful Nicole Kidman was before she started doing the weird stuff to her face, I do think the word vandalize does kind of make sense in that context.
I don’t have any idea whether she was telling the strict truth, but good for her for not coming up with a laundry list of insecurities to placate the interviewer. If she dislikes something, that’s her personal business and she is not in any way obliged to parade it for publications which really only exist to create self loathing in women so their advertisers can sell more stuff.
Completeley agree with what you are saying here. Just wish she stopped smoking 🙁
Stop Stewart, you’re embarassing yourself
Inarticulate mess as usual.
I read this in a completely different way. Every day on this site, we make comments about how people look nothing like their original selves and often begin to look like nothing found in nature. I get where she’s coming from on the vandalism point. Some people, in an effort to look sexier, prettier, younger, whatever, end up looking like wax figures. I don’t think she is talking about deformities or medical conditions. She works in Hollywood, so it stands to reason that she interprets the overboard cosmetic surgery within that context.
As far as the push-ups, that’s her particular measure of assessing her fitness level.
Just adding that I’m not a fan. I haven’t really watched any films that she has been in, but I don’t think she sounds like a jerk.
Agree 100%. English is not my native language, but I couldn’t have said it better even if it was.
Agree. As you said Kiddo she’s in Hollywood and sees up close the mess some of these women look like. They do look deformed after a while. I have nothing against a little nip and tuck but just to freshen up. If the money were there to splurge I can’t say I wouldn’t have a little work done myself. I think she’s referring to the ones who look nothing like themselves after a point and become clownish looking. I don’t think of her as arrogant for not wanting to change anything about herself, she’s just comfortable in the skin she’s in. Of course she’s very young and might change her feelings when she hits her 40’s & 50’s. All I know is her complexion is flawless.
I think that aswell. I think she was talking about those cases when people end up getting a new face after all the work they get done and it doesn’t even look good, a la Kim Kardashian; that can be consider vandalism, when your face is perfectly beautiful but you wreck it with plastic surgery for no reason.
Or like Megan Fox who was so much prettier before she started messing with her face.
I agree with you. Look at Kim K. she was a total cutie, now ?
I agree with you. I rag on her a lot, but I think vandalism is actually a perfect way to talk about all the work that people have done on their faces. It bothers me a lot that so many women think that plastic surgery is not a big deal, and I feel like it’s gotten to a point where it seems to be expected that one fix their “flaws.” Having women spend so much time, energy, and money on their looks insures that we don’t have the resources to do the important things, like run companies and countries.
But you don’t understand…women are objects. Everywhere we are objectified by our f*ckability.
She’s still a messy communicator but I don’t get the negativity towards her thoughts. It’s hard to be happy with your looks in Hollywood. Kristen is not hollywood pretty and probably gets pressure to change that in such a misogynistic industry. So kudos to her for her defiance.
I don’t know what you mean, she is very much “Hollywood” pretty, she would have no career if she wasn’t photogenic, her acting is weak at best.
Maybe she’s being a little extra in the way that she worded it, but at least she’s trying to dissuade people from getting what is the majority of the time unnecessary surgery. This is an especially important message she could put out there considering her fan base is made up of young, impressionable women. But of course because she said it she’ll be ripped a part, but if JLaw or Emma Watson said this exact same comment it would be seen in a better light. Some celebs are just damned if they do damned if they don’t . As long as they said anything it’s wrong or mocked because it came out of their mouth.
I don’t mind her saying things about herself it’s when she gets all judging about other people. Same girl who thought selling fashion-perfume was selling out (Sparkles too), same girl who talked trash about being a hollywood cliche then slept with her director. She’s preachy until she becomes a hypocrite then cries foul when called out.
She doesn’t really know how to express herself in interviews. For someone who claims to be very well read, girl doesn’t know how to put a proper sentence together. She sounds very uneducated every single time.
I was prepared to give her shit for her comment when I thought it was about not changing herself as a person and not learning from past mistakes. But this is about not getting plastic surgery, and I think it’s more than reasonable that a woman shouldn’t want to change anything about herself. Plastic surgery is addicting. You never get only one procedure. We wer used to seeing only middle aged women getting plastic surgery, now it’s TEENS. It’s good to have a young voice out there saying “No woman needs it.”
Either way, yes, she is arrogant. I think for all her judgement on others, which she can never stop herself from doing in interviews, she needs to learn how to be more accepting. And that includes accepting herself, because the way her publicist denied her gf on People, when we know, was very messed up. If I was her gf, I would not be ok with that.
You don´t know what her gf would be ok with. Stop projecting. You´re just assuming it was her publicist talking to that mag when they every tabloid fills in the blankets all the time with bla bla statements that are harmless& can´t really be denied because it gives them hits. Also People mag can´t go there for threat of being sued.
@Annie How do you know she hasn’t accepted herself? Kristen’s sexual orientation is her business.
Actresses can’t win: they get criticized when they do plastic surgery (from “false” concern to flat out mockery and ridicule) and are still criticized when they are against it. Vandalism is a strong word, but I have seen worse descriptions about women who had plastic surgery, here too. I don’t think it’s about subtle/ minor surgical treatment.
Right, but she’s 25-years-old. I want to see what she says about plastic surgery 15 years from now when the acting jobs available for 40-year-old women are few and far between.
I get what you’re saying about it being a Catch-22 for celebs, but the anti-plastic surgery sentiment means a bit more coming from someone like Diane Keaton versus K Stew.
Anyway, I agree that Stewart is a naturally gorgeous woman and it’s great to see that she hasn’t gone the Kylie Jenner route. Yet.
Kitten, but the point remains that the very young in Hollywood also do A LOT of plastic surgery like all kinds of implants and whatnot. The pressure is not only at the later end of the spectrum. Some people doing the work look incredibly attractive to begin with.
Just because she is young doesn’t mean she hasn’t felt the pressure to get surgery. Plastic surgery isn’t just about maintaining a youthful appearance. Who is to say she hasn’t been told to get a boob job or blow up her lips with injectables? There are all kinds of ways Hollywood can make an actress of any age feel like plastic surgery is the only way to make in this business.
It’s part of her job description to get plastic surgery though. She’s not talking about surgery for when gravity starts happening, she’s talking about surgery to just be an actress because the standards are so unrealistic. She does look different too from most actresses her age, cause her teeth aren’t capped and her boobs are small and people often call her skinny fat for not having the right muscle tone. She’s a pretty but her looks do not conform to a standard that insists you get botox at 20 so that the screen doesn’t betray any lines on your face.
Ugh. I’m just gonna copy and paste this since I guess everyone here stopped reading my comment after the first two sentences:
“Anyway, I agree that Stewart is a naturally gorgeous woman and it’s great to see that she hasn’t gone the Kylie Jenner route. Yet.”
Praising women for not getting plastic surgery isn’t really my thing, as ultimately I do think it’s a personal choice. That being said, if she’s happy with how she looks, then that’s awesome.
I don’t think anyone was looking for attaboys. It’s just that the thread went off the rails about her comments, like THE NERVE OF HER TO SAY THIS.
It’s the way she expresses herself, Kiddo. There’s not a ton of humility on her part and she doles out a healthy dose of judgment in her comments. If she had said “plastic surgery isn’t for me” instead of “I think the women who do are losing their minds” I’d be a little easier on her. That’s why I brought up the fact that she’s only 25. It’s easy to judge women who cave to that kind of thing when you’re young and gorgeous.
Since she seemed to be talking about women specifically, it would have been cool if she said something about a Photoshop society that puts a ton of pressure on women and ridiculous expectations in regards to our appearance or talked about plastic surgery in a broader sense.
Yeah, but Frances McDormand said essentially the same thing, perhaps harsher, and people didn’t go nearly as apeshit about it. I never thought of Kristen as ‘gorgeous’. Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but she isn’t standard Hollywood stock to begin with. I agree, however, that she could have phrased it in a more diplomatic way, but she is very rough around the edges and I guess that is part of what made her success.
She’s Frances f*cking McDormand, a brilliant actress who’s work transcends her..unconventional appearance. In a shallow industry that often values pleasing aesthetics above all, she’s made a successful career for herself despite her looks, not because of it.
Yes it’s true that she equated plastic surgery with “mutilation” but it’s important to understand that comparison within the context of her entire comment:
“We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 — sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face. Looking old should be a boast about experiences accrued and insights acquired, a triumphant signal that you are someone who, beneath that white hair, has a card catalog of valuable information.”
I mean come on. Firstly, that is some insightful sh*t right there. Now THAT is an articulate woman. Additionally, her words mean more because she’s speaking as a woman who is not a conventionally beautiful 25-year-old. She wasn’t making so much of a judgment of plastic surgery, but rather pointing out that people who use plastic surgery in a misguided attempt to cling to their youth are falling prey to a larger societal issue where we systematically devalue older people (particularly women) and worship youth.
As far as K Stew goes, sure we can say that beauty is subjective but when was the last time you saw McDormand on the cover of GQ posing seductively in her swimsuit?
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcf4q5ecgx1rjedgto1_500.jpg
Just saying. Even if you don’t find Stewart particularly gorgeous, she’s young and beautiful enough to sell covers of a men’s magazine.
I still think people are being OVERLY critical about Kristen. And I say this as one who is pretty ‘meh’ about her. Repeating, she’s rough around the edges. She’s not going to be able to articulate with precision, but her point is basically the same, only from the perspective of the younger Hollywood-set, feeling compelled to alter appearance because it isn’t perfect. And I don’t think ‘gorgeous’ is necessarily always an asset, especially as those who undergo procedures begin to look more and more like each other, contoured from a template. I think unique in a world of Barbies is more interesting.
*shrugs* Still not getting the fuss, but willing to let go.
In Hollywood, gorgeous is always an asset when you aren’t exceptionally talented.
Anyway, her message isn’t a bad one, but without the proper messenger, without the meaningful articulation, it remains unremarkable, and that’s the difference between Stewart and McDormand.
Kristen´s message is extremely remakable because she speaks to young generation. She might be gorgeous, but she is not Hollywood standard.
It cracks me up reading her interviews. She is an actress. She lives in California. She is in her early 20’s. Clearly, there will be years of her commentary changing. After all, being an actress is was her idea. I would equivocate being an actress in Hollywood (I don’t care that she thinks she is all indie, etc) as being in the Miss America Pageant. You want to put yourself out there, then you have to sell yourself. I don’t exactly see her doing plays in New York. She is just a 20ish something who gets paid way too much to be so insufferable.
The bit about the hair is BS. Kristen is a dark blonde – that in no way is her natural hair color – costume much, Kris?
Not wanting to change anything about yourself is fine, unless you want to keep a job, or a relationship, or mature into an adult. An actor/actress should thrive on changing themselves unless they want to just be known and ridiculed for one-note performances…oh.
In that context, she meant physically (and presumably excluding hair) – doubt that she meant to include non-physical ways when she said that.
True, but I wonder if her performances are symptomatic of that thinking in a broader sense.
Those pics of Kristen with the cigarette are not very attractive. The pants are just plain ugly. Never thought I would say it, but KStew you look much better in skinny jeans.
I agree about plastic surgery. IMO men and women who try to stay young looking past their prime,usually end up “vandalizing” their face. But, Kristen always seems to be shading everyone in HW when she gives interviews. Does she seriously think she is the only unique and special actor in HW? According to her in interviews, no one gets it right. Vain much?
This is exactly the way I feel about Kristen. She will never change because she clearly doesn’t think she needs to – apparently she has it all figured out but all those other people haven’t. The arrogance rolls off her in waves, it is so off-putting to me. Great that she is determined to be herself and not fit in some Hollywood mold, but jeez don’t (passively or otherwise) insult the people who are choosing a different thing.
Her fans insist she gets more hate than other actresses out there, but I think Kristen created her own problems there. You reap what you sow, right? I don’t even enjoy her onscreen characters because the real Kristen seems to bleed onto the screen and I just do not like her personality at all.
Anname:
everything you just said sums up entirely my perception of her.
verbatim.
I get what she’s saying, but what does she know about being unattractive? She has a great body and a pretty face, there really is nothing she should change. However not all women have been equally blessed by genetics.
And she’s young and firm, try being 48, like me, with something unfortunate happening under my chin, I’m not rushing to the doctor but I don’t have to appear in movies or on TV.
Perhaps when all women see themselves as imminently f*ckable (which they are in real life), perhaps they could relax, and put their primary focus on being beautiful on the inside.
I’d love for a journalist to ask her why the whole cast is back for Snow White 2 except Snow White, lol.
It’s not like Kristen hasn’t had comments made about her looks throughout the years. Not only did she have an androgynous appearance when she was young but I remember reading jabs about her teeth, chin and general jaw area. I mean, even while people may think that she’s stunning, no woman goes without judgments made towards her physical appearance.
As for her comments, I think it’s a mixed bag. We live in a society that’s obsessed with appearances and takes pleasure in ripping a woman to shreds if she isn’t a size four or if her nose is too big. It’s not surprising that some women are so insecure that they’d want to spend thousands of dollars on plastic surgery. But then, she also lives in LA and has most likely seen dozens of cases of botched plastic surgery and people coming out like Frankenstein. While ‘vandalism’ is clearly hyperbolic, I don’t think she was using it in flat out judgement.
Also, she needs to quit the smoking. It’s gross and she’ll ruin her skin and body completely.
Kristen, dear, get rid of those hideous pants. They are so Bozo.
As much of a caricature as James Lipton can be, I still prefer to hear most artists’ observations and motivations within the thoughtful context of a serious discussion of their personal creative arcs and works. Too often, a quickie magazine interview done for publicity and ad sales – by someone not necessarily skilled or knowledgable, asking random questions of a subject not savvy about handling the media – leaves not enough to the imagination, imo.
(This ^ may seem a silly comment on a gossip site I quite enjoy for other reasons, but it’s really my preference about the creative types I respect most.)
for someone who claims to not give a toss about how people perceive her, etc.. it seems (to me, anyway) that the cause of her often sounding ignorant or entitled in her interviews is due to how much effort she actually puts out attempting to sound intelligent while coming off aloof all at once.
anotherwards, her “half-sh** given” attitude is bologna.
I fully, 100% agree with her. I don’t like the whole “do what’s right for you” attitude because I think it’s such a bandaid solution to a deeper issue. Not only that but what kind of message are we sending our daughters and young girls? It’s easy to say you’re just doing it for you but it may negatively affect someone else, especially if you’re open about it, which everyone should be. Society values women’s looks way too much as it is, this just contributes to it. “Oh plastic surgery made me happier with my appearance” Like, you have to be pretty to be happy? No, I think we should work on focusing on our appearances less, like men do. It’s just a product of the way the media preys on low self esteem of girls and women. I do understand what it’s like to be unhappy with your appearance – I wanted a nose job in high school but now I’m so glad I got through that.
Except women aren’t the only ones who get plastic surgery–men do too.
It’s not always a “band-aid” solution and it’s not always a slippery slope that leads to compulsive behavior.
I just think it’s a personal choice. Sure, it would be great if people could reach self-acceptance on their own, but not everyone is strong enough to do that, and I’m not gonna judge them for that.
Perhaps these women are not so much concerned with self-acceptance, as much as trying to get other folks to accept her too.
She usually gives decent or good face in her magazine shoots, but this cover is awful. As for what she said, sure, she feels that way now. Give her 30 years and see if she changes her mind. She’s most likely going to want to do something at some point if she keeps smoking.
I wish she and Kit Harrington had a blog.
Can you imagine?
I don’t see anything wrong with what she said. In fact, I like what she said and I don’t always.
Her interviews never bother me because she answers the questions with her truth. She doesn’t NEED to get better at them per se because then she would just be a robot. If you are reading her interviews to gain some type of enlightenment or introspection, that says more about you than her lol! I don’t know why celebs can’t be human and flawed, now that is hypocrisy. No I am not her fangirl, I am just amused by some of the comments is all. None of us are infallible and if you are, *slow clap* for you!
How could she possibly think herself as arrogant for not wanting to cut open her face for the sake of everyone else’s opinion?!?!?!! THIS is what scares me about the hollywood world. There is an unbelievable amount of actresses and actors that have had work done for the sake of the medias beauty standards. 🙁