Kristen Stewart covers the August issue of Marie Claire. The editorial is… okay. I usually think Kristen can pull off nearly any kind of heavy, dark styling but I feel like we’ve seen this kind of look from her many times before in editorials. That’s not on Kristen – it feels like Marie Claire sort of phoned it in. This is Kristen’s second major magazine cover interview this year – months ago, we covered her Harper’s Bazaar UK cover here. This is her first American cover in months. Kristen is still pushing the “I’m a completely different person now” narrative, having said goodbye to Twilight. Sparkly Vampires and Bella for good. Some highlights from the interview:
She’s been punished for not being… “I believe the operative words are, accessible, easy, and uncomplicated,” she says with an exaggerated roll of her eyes.
Her image change: “I lit my universe on fire and I watched it burn. Speaking very candidly, it was a really traumatic period in my early 20s that kick-started something in me that was a bit more…feral.”
On her appearance and cutting her hair: “My hair was such a crutch. I looked quote unquote ‘sexy’ no matter what. I could hide behind it. As soon as I didn’t have all that hair, I had to let my face hang out. I felt more confident than I had in a really long time. And it felt really good. Maybe to most people long hair is prettier. But then what? Is your main goal in life to be desired? That is boring as f-ck.”
On reaching peace with her public image: “I’m really proud that I am able to move forward and not fall into every mental crater. That’s a new thing for me. Age has made me smarter and calmer. And it is f–king awesome.”
On her success at a young age: “Between ages 15 and 20, it was really intense. I was constantly anxious. I was kind of a control freak. If I didn’t know how something was going to turn out, I would make myself ill, or just be locked up or inhibited in a way that was really debilitating.”
On apologizing: “Lately, I’ve been doing less of the ‘I’m sooooo sorry.’ And more of the ‘No. F–k. Jesus.’”
Eloquent she is not. But she’s right about some things, and yes, I’m sort of giving her a break. She was “punished” for not being a cookie-cutter starlet, for not fitting into an easily accessible box, for not being “girly” and frilly. That being said, she was also enormously self-destructive. Not like Ben Affleck type of self-destructive (Affleck is next-level self-destructive), but she was definitely looking to destroy whatever goodwill she had and rise like a phoenix from the ashes. The fact that she was able to do just that… well, we should give her some credit for that.
Photos courtesy of TESH/Marie Claire.
What is she promoting? Or is this just the New KStew PR game.
My guess, American ultra.
Promoting herself, because dating a woman and having short hair is so brave, so unique, so exemplary. Much hubris. Much drama. “Lit my universe on fire”… wtf? If being a multimillionaire in your twenties is such a curse, quit HW, go act in some small theatre, get a degree and live a normal life. No one will give a damn then.
This pretty much sums it up !!!!!!
Was she referencing mini coopering Rupert Sanders with the “Set my universe on fire” comment? To me, she sounds like the same self indulgent, ungrateful, trying to be edgy girl shes always been except shes dating a woman instead of Sparkles. Nothing to see here.
RIGHT??? I’m not buying it. At all. She is cringe-inducing with her try-hard. EPIC.
Exactly….she thinks she’s saying something so clever about herself, as usual, making her ideas and her reinventions so unique and oh so important to the rest of the world….yes, she still has a long way to go to reach some sort of maturity. I’ll only give her a break because she’s so not grown up yet and so into herself….still.
It’s precisely her personality that did her in, along with the cheating scandal that hurt an entire family. That’s really the worst as far as I am concerned. So loving herself, yet so unconcerned about what she does to others.
She actually has big movie coming out. Like it or not she is a successful actress and not a famewhore. Covering magazines is part of her job and it just happens that magazines want her on their cover. Why? Because of people like you – who clearly dislikes her a lot – and people like me – who is a fan. Kristen gets people talking. Nobody wants vanilla.
She is vanilla…
I don’t think she’s so much disliked as she is an amusement with her try-hard bad assery.
No, she’s not vanilla. She’s more like cinnamon vanilla. That’s as alternative a she gets.
@A if she was ‘vanilla’ then why are people so interested in her, including you?
I have to disagree that she has risen from the ashes. She’s always been given a pass, no matter how much she complained about it. Had she not been in a huge franchise, had the designers not liked her, and had she not been an attractive female, we most likely wouldn’t be seeing her anywhere.
She doesn’t sound any different to me than she always has. Perhaps I’m missing something?
No, you are not missing anything. That’s why she has the whole snowflake nickname. She’s so special and different, no one gets her. But maybe instead of realizing her hair was a crutch, she should really realize her cursing is a crutch. Look at me, I’m so edgy, I say fu** in every sentence.
Agree 100% – this girl has been given more passes than all of Tom Brady’s receivers put together.
What she’s saying here is the same old shtick. Only difference is how her words are being framed oh, and her haircut.
Yea..Ugh. This girl. She’s still so angsty and unpleasant. But she was a trapped young lesbian, and the object of all these hetero shippers and Robstenites and Twihards…that had to be insane. She was coming to terms with her own sexuality, while in a relationship with the most desired man on the planet at the time. Had to be excruciatingly difficult.
That said, I still think she’s not pleasant, and extremely full of herself.
Let’s get real, I think she’s still riding on Twilight and Pattinson fumes. Except now, instead of the excitement that pairing gave twihards and robsteners, there’s a crowd of ‘Bella,’ or Twihard fans or Krisbians who are enabling her career and hoping it survives that whole period and him. I maintain its not really because they genuinely love her or her acting, but more they’re resentful and delusional still re Twilight/Pattinson, or they see him as some kind of competition she has to vanquish. It’s a weird fandom to say the least.
What made my jaw drop is her saying her hair/she was/is sexy. My aren’t we conceited? Lol she still wants to be THAT object of desire, and I think that’s why she still needs the little risque fashion week jaunts, and her sultry mag pictorials. She thinks she’s being slick saying, ‘oooh look at me, I’ve cut my hair off, I’m brave and I reject the patriarchy making me all sexbomby!!’ B.S. she’s still trying to be ‘Edward’s beloved Bella goes HOT,’ between their pages, and hoping those twihards forget that it appears she’s got a gf who resembles a young Ruth Buzzy.
She’s not an authentic person, and in a way she’s less so now, even as she bums around with her gf in terrible outfits. She 25, and she’s still hiding and being locked up. I wish she would say; ‘Look, I realized I couldn’t deny that I liked women (to the world and myself any longer), and then ‘I lit my universe on fore and watched it burn. My confusion and torment was behind almost all of my neurosis and horrible behavior.’ That would be honest, that would help other young people struggling.
Who knows maybe she’s setting us up, prepping the twihard community for a bigger ‘coming out’ interview once her wider releasing American Ultra comes out? We’ve heard her Mom talk about her sexuality already, now this alluding to the sanders thing from her…so maybe that’s her PR plan…she’s framing her ‘coming out,’ and will try to explain her struggles..but will probably do it for VF or Rolling Stone.
At the end of the day, I will always maintain that she got her spot in the sun, for one reason, Pattinson.
Why are you assigning her a sexuality? She clearly stated she believes sexuality is fluid and gender doesn’t matter when it comes to who she is attracted to. That’s not what any lesbian i know adheres to. It’s so ignorant how bisexuality becomes invisible the second you settle into a relationship with either a man or a woman.
And GTFO with Pattinson being anything to do with Kristen’s success. Are you for real? She was a successful working actress long before Twilight. She was hired for Twilight first and her approval of and chemistry with him helped him get hired. Don’t rewrite history.
Kristen is just there for me. It’s like that with a lot of celebrities. I understand you’re a Robert fan, but KStew’s popularity comes from Twilight, not Robert Pattinson. Same for Robert. Yes, they did benefit from their relationship, but to completely assume she’s famous because of Robert Pattinson, is false.
To @G
To @G
1)Oh really? Stewart has commented about her own sexuality? Being the very private special snowflake she is, I wasn’t aware she had done so. Please feel free to link. I wasn’t aware she had spoken of her sexual orientation in any capacity. (I won’t hold my breath waiting for the link/source)
2) In my opinion the lesbian in her is strong. Going by her own words she ‘loved Pattinson more than anything in her world,’ IMO if that’s true, and IF she was bisexual, she’d still be with him, not the woman who resembles Ruth Buzzy. That’s kind of like Sean Penn announcing he’s bi, and leaving Charlize for Perez Hilton. I simply don’t believe those two extremes exist on a bisexual’s spectrums. You can disagree all u want, but that’s my opinion…and it’s supported by…you know..reality.
3)its delusional to think, that Pattinson wasn’t the PRIMARY reason why the film was as popular with women as it was, and why they were shipped as a couole so hard – he’s why lame EL James wrote lame 50 shades and why a trillion other alternate Edward based fanfics existexist..and why millions of women eat that stuff up like candy to this day…Stewart got the fallout from all of that…any female playing opposite HIM, not to mention dating him in real life, would have (and does!).
It’s hard to even get through your messy, incoherent diatribes, but it’s clear that you are totally ignorant about sexuality, and going off of looks of her various partners is just absurd. So if someone breaks up with their significant other, it means they’re gay and there couldn’t possibly have been another reason for the split, even when there was infidelity? She HAS stated she views sexuality as fluid and she abides by that and sexual ambiguity is natural for her. Plus she hates labels. She gave that interview to Harpers Bazaar. Not to mention her mother outed her as bi and said she loves men and women. You’re beyond ignorant and simple for your conclusory “the lesbian in her is strong.”
Here is the HB link:
http://www*harpersbazaar*co*uk/fashion/fashion-news/kristen-stewart-is-bazaars-june-cover-star
‘I’m not looking to tease people,’ says Stewart. ‘I do gravitate towards characters I don’t have to step too far out of myself to play. Naturally, I kind of do like to live in the grey area of life. I don’t find it logical to define things clearly – it doesn’t make sense to me. So there is an ambiguity that I was able to play very naturally in both of those movies.’ I ask if she thinks sexuality is fluid, a range, a spectrum. ‘Absolutely. Yes. That’s something I abide by. Something I feel.’
Nice try “@cleo,” (by the way, can you please use YOUR handle, not MINE when responding to me, its confusing otherwise, thanks) –
That said, I appreciate the link and the quote, but it’s apparent Stewart is talking about her characterization of the role (bisexual/lesbian) she had in Sils Maria. She’s not speaking of herself, deliberately – she’s parsing her words. For instance, I believe sexuality can be fluid, and I “abide by that,’ that doesn’t change the fact that I’m straight.
Lesbian is not an insult. Its offensive that you’re acting like its the worse thing in the world. For that reason, I find you admonishing me on ” sexuality,’ laughable. You sound 12.
..and I absolutely agree there were other reasons for her breakup, namely that she was gay.
You seem very ignorant about how sexuality works. And the movie business. I hope you´re really young, otherwise you have a lot to learn.
I used the @Cleo bc the thread was getting long and I thought it would be easier, sorry.
No, she is likening those characters to HERSELF, saying the sexually ambiguous characters are like her, how she lives in the gray area of life and was able to do it so naturally because it’s not a departure from herself. She said she feels it. Those comments are way more insightful than your assertions that you know she must be gay for what sounds like some bizarre reasons. You don’t need to put a label on someone who has not done so herself, especially when that label is probably wrong based on her own insights and her mother saying she loves men and women. Bisexual erasure IS real, as “G” pointed out.
I never said calling her gay is an insult, but the presumptuous manner in which you did, comparing the looks of her significant others as if that proves some kind of point was immature and ignorant.
Thanks “Jen,” I appreciate your coming out of anonymity instead of using MY screen handle as yours.
“Bisexual erasure,” is real (I have no doubt), but what occurs MORE often in my opinion, as studies have shown, and as many a gay man and lesbian can tell you, is that they used the term ‘bisexual,’ to ‘test the waters,’ ease family and friends into acceptance and to NOT bear the full brunt of stigmatization that being an OUT gay/lesbian person can bring.
From Maddow to Elton John, full blown proud gay men and lesbians – the bisexual bridge will typically be crossed on the way to their true authentic selves. Don’t believe me, read a book.
So I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Stewart does the same thing, that is, IF she ever speaks of her own sexuality in a straightforward way.
That may in fact be why she is somewhat aligning with a bisexual character in a movie – she anticipates going across the bi bridge herself…however, by talking about a character, she still has the safety net of parsed words and not answering anything about her own sexuality, directly.
Like I said, I personally can ‘feel,’ that fluid sexuality exists, that doesn’t mean I’m not straight.
That said, again, and I repeat. Stewart is not discussing her own sexuality. She is speaking in vague general terms about why she could easily play the character, I.e., because she agrees/abides by/feels that sexuality is fluid. Again, I’ll remind you that you can have this position and still believe that one can also identify as lesbian, gay, straight or bi. Otherwise, my next question to you would be – do you believe Stewart doesn’t believe that there are such distinctions as LGBTQ? Or Straight?
You think she is saying – that we’re all just ‘fluid?’
She was describing HER CHARACTER in a movie (a bisexual assistant that the Binoche character becomes enamoured of) and saying she “feels,” that people can be fluid. The reporter did NOT say: “Would YOU describe YOURSELF that way?”
Some of you Stewart fans are as adamant now about her being ‘bi-fluid,’as you were adamant about her being straight when she was with Pattinson ( when some people would insist she was not)….
How did that turn out? Lol
I think bisexual erasure is exactly what you’re doing. You’re dismissing insights she and her mother have given in favor of pointing to a few gay celebs and basically saying “See, they identified as bi initially so I’m going to apply this to her.” There are plenty of people who are bi and may marry or settle down in a same-sex relationship and they’re STILL bi. They can marry or settle down with someone of the opposite sex and it doesn’t make them straight. Still bi. You’re saying that them identifying as bi is basically just a bridge to being gay. That may be true for some but it’s still flat out erasing those people who are bi, period.
I agree that her comments weren’t straightforward but they’re probably as straightforward as she’ll ever be. We can agree to disagree but she is someone who tends to speak through her characters, so when she is talking about aligning with sexually ambiguous characters who live in gray areas and that they are natural for her to portray, I am much more inclined to think she is revealing an aspect of herself than believe someone on a gossip board who just insists being bi is simply a bridge to being gay.
I wasn’t a fan of hers when these fan wars argued about her sexuality so I don’t need you laughing at me. I don’t care if she is gay or bi, what bothers me are presumptions based on ignorant and out of touch conclusions.
Yeah, that Rupert Sanders affair was totally the kind of thing a lesbian looking to come out in stages by saying she’s “bisexual” would do. :eyeroll:
As someone who is actually bisexual, I find it incredibly offensive when people assume that my relationships with women must represent either my “real” sexuality, or else an “experimentation” because I must be so sexually voracious that’s just how I roll. I don’t like it when I see people apply those tropes to other individuals who live as bisexuals either.
She said the same exact boring Stewbag of crap she always does. . .she needs to study for these interviews. It may help.
yeah, the Rupert whatsisname scandal was downplayed by the mainstream media as if their lives depended on it (which, let’s face it, knowing what Twiihards are like, they probably did!)
If the actress caught on camera humping her married director had been someone like Emma Watson/Emma Stone, they would not have got even 1 percent of the passes Kstew got. hell, look at what people thought of Blake Lively, and there wasn’t even photographic evidence of her+Affleck together the way there was with Kstew!
Thank you for this- truer words were never spoken. It is beyond baffling to see posters here bemoan how she was treated so poorly by the media- yet she was the one who invited them in, both by grubbing with her married director by the side of the road, and then by the “But I LURV youuuuu” PR release when the poop hit the fan. And yet here it is what-2/3 years later?- and she can’t let it drop/keeps bringing it up. I so agree- no proof of Blake Lively doing anything, but she gets raked over the coals regardless for what she may have done with Ben A.
Honestly, I agree. I still can’t believe that the person who was ribbed on tv about the cheating wasn’t Kristen but ROB. It was on Letterman. Letterman was basically telling him it’d be fine, he’d get another girlfriend (can’t remember if it was THAT exactly, but that was the gist), etc. He’d be okay. Kristen, beyond the initial statements that she put out after the pics were sold (and then consequently scrubbed from the internet) didn’t have to say or defend anything. Fine. But how bad is it that your ex is having to answer more questions about YOUR affair than you? And the other thing I didn’t like was when they were at a press conference, a reporter asked Kristen if she and Rob were together/back together. And Kirsten said “I like to keep ’em guessing…”. LIKE NO girlfriend. No. WHO DOES THAT?
While I think, for her public image, Kirsten backed away for a little bit from the public eye, but she was NOT stoned in the press. Maybe the crazy, die hard Twihards (but even they are still going on about a secret baby with Rob)……but Kirsten had all kinds of celebrities defending her because she was young and dumb.
Honestly, I think that her career is pretty much going as it would’e gone, except with a little less public interest because she’s not with Rob. But as some fans have shown–they’re only fans of a certain role/franchise. So unless Rob and Kristen were going to make another Twilight movie, their fans won’t show up…..
@Virgilia – exactly. Why should the person who got cheated on be the one facing the questions?! wtf.
And the myth that the mainstream media went in on her is just that – a myth.She really got to have her cake and eat it too, that way. For the most part they bent over backwards to tailor this incident to her image as ‘young and rock n’ roll’, witness:
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2012/09/04/kristen-stewart-vogue-cover-interview
I wonder if the media goes easy on her because she’s just so bad with the media. With the awkward, nonsensical, sometimes drunken and embarrassing interviews, there’s hardly much need for reporters to put her down. Maybe the fact that it’s easy to feel second-hand embarrassment for her has helped her out in a way.
“Eloquent she is not.” That’s an understatement. Still, I like that she just lives her own life as she pleases.
Does she think that cursing constantly makes her come across as cool and edgy?
Haha, posted the same thing above before I saw your comment.
Allow me to give you the perspective of someone who also curses a lot: “Edgy” is hardly the word that crosses my mind when I drop a megaton F-bomb. Nah. I just say it because it allows me to give a hyperbole to my sentences when I need to accentuate something. Like she, I am not very eloquent in my spoken speech, though I’ve the excuse of English being a foreign language to me. Besides, the F-word is an amazingly versatile word. You could make a whole conversation up on the F-word and different pace/inflection/some body language.
Would you curse in the same way while giving an interview for a fashion/beauty megazine? And when I say “edgy” I’m thinking about young people who consider cursing to be something a rebel, someone who is not boring or mainstream does. I love an F-bomb sometimes, it makes me feel better specially when in pain or really frustrated but I don’t use that in professional or more traditional familiar contexts. She uses it a lot almost as if she doesn’t know how to finish a phrase without it. As if It’s her exclamation point. English is not my 1st language either so I understand the strength of the F word, it’s quite liberating.
Well, sofia, she isn’t interviewing for a job here. She is giving a little bit of insight into her life. If she edited it out she’d get hate for being a liar and a fake. She can’t win. Besides, no one seems to mind men who swear.
She’s like a human Valium.
I agree 100%. She is so unappealing and full of shit. I really don’t understand why people are interested in this turd. Jesus!
Why did you click on the post then? That’s your answer. Not being funny but you were obviously interested enough to click. If people don’t click then Kaiser will see that people are not interested in her and write less and less about her. But that’s not the case with Kristen because like it or not, people ARE interested, including you.
Because this is what Celebitchy is for. If I want to click on an article and trash talk the subject, I can do so. Same goes for any other article that is posted anywhere. Is it an issue when we’re criticizing the Kardashians? Whether you like it or not, not everyone finds Kristen interesting or worth the time. I remind you again that this is Celebitchy. This is what we come here for.
It doesn’t matter where you talk about her, the fact is you do. The Kardashians are an obsession with a lot of people too, much as some hate to admit it …
No. She doesn’t make me feel good the way a Valium does.
I watched Clouds of Sils Maria and it’s the first KStew role I’ve seen in which she doesn’t faff around like a mopey cadaver and can, in fact, properly emote. So colour me shocked.
She looks nice in the pictures.
lmao the words ‘faff around like a mopey cadaver’ are way more vivid than any performance of Kstew’s I’ve ever seen.
To be fair to her, she showed some promise before taking on Twilight (and with it, her special snowflake edgy persona) so maybe it’s finally emerging now.
I saw CoSM too and I thought she was her usual hipster self. Just playing herself like always,
I like what she said about hair and being desired. It felt kind of liberating when I cut my super long hair off
Except she neglects to say that she didn’t cut it for that reason. She cut if for a role. It was a pragmatic decision that she’s now trying to position as a statement. Plus she’s clearly growing it back, so that just adds to the hypocrisy of the statement.
How is she a hypocrite? Where does she say she’s never growing it back? She has said opposite in the past, that she knows she’s going to grow it out. She’s not allowed to have a favorite haircut even if she no longer has it? Second, she cut it before her movie role in Equals to play around with it first.
The faux outrage some if you have over the tiniest little things with her is just insane.
No comments about how motherhood has changed her? So ninja. Lol
it took me a minute to get what you were referencing lol
Lol and I’d love to hear how she got all that baby weight off so fast 😀
Oh snap!
she is so good looking
Wow, she looks stunning.
I’ve only ever seen her in “Still Alice”‘ and she was good. I’m not really sure where the hate comes from. She’s made dumb choices but I’ve seen other people get passes on this very site for doing much worse.
She does look stunning. That last pic, beautiful
I agree, that last pic is beautiful. She looks like Lena Headley (GOT) in that last pic. I’ve never thought that until now…maybe they tweaked the pic or she’s getting older and her face is changing.
Agree. She is gorgeous and the photos are stunning.
She sounds okay in this interview, but I can’t ever recall her actually being apologetic in her early 20s.
As long as she took some acting lessons before she rose from the damn ashes, great.
She looks very pretty, I actually like the dark make up on her
i love that bodysuit and her makeup is lovely.
Go ahead, light yer universe on fire–yah, we see how dramatic you are.
I’ve been really surprised at how well she pulls off being a Chanel muse.
She still sounds incredibly uneducated and vapid. It’s pretty shocking that the years go by and she still hasn’t learned how to talk like an adult without using “f*cking* as a verbal crotch so much. When is she cutting that out? Hair is easy, what about language? Maturity?
Also, this is exactly the kind of scenario she was dreaming about back when she said she wanted bad stuff to happen to her because her life is too perfect. She wanted to act like a victim and rise from the ashes. Well, congrats on getting there, I guess. Too bad that all you had to do was betray a guy who loved you deeply and destroy a family. And I agree. She’s self-destructive. Once she gets bored again and needs to remind people that she’s so ~badass~, her new girlfriend better watch out because she goes all the way crazy.
I agree if she really wanted to set her world on fire, go ahead, sweetie but dont pull others into your mess. Seriously, the way she talks about it sounds very smug and happy how everything played out.
She was always very smug about it. She never cared. When she said she had no regrets I just realized the kind of person she was. A family destroyed, two little kids heartbroken, her boyfriend of 4 years… How can you not regret playing your part in hurting so many people. And now she’s playing the victim card. What about Rob? What about Liberty Ross? The kids? She has her head so far up her ass.
OMG @Ronda – THIS. A BILLIONx THIS. She’s ‘smug,’ personified which is the primary reason why she’s so unpleasant. Lol
Exactly, if anyone’s world was set on fire, it was Liberty Ross.
Kstew got a whole new ‘I’m edgier than vampires and don’t care about sleeping with married men because I’m sooo unconventional!’ image out of the cheating scandal, so my sympathy for her is limited.
That is such a fantastic Freudian slip:
“she still hasn’t learned how to talk like an adult without using “f*cking* as a verbal crotch”
Thank you for that misplaced vowel. It cracked me up. 😉
Was her hair ever seen as sexy?
also funny how people fell over themselves to predict that Kristens career would be done and the guy wouldnt have a problem. well turns out it was the opposite.
Actually, I never thought that. I thought that she, in particular, would try to be Parker Posey 2.0 (Indie queen) little miss eclectic faux erudite and crafty actor-y, in projects that were off the beaten path.
I thought he would do the exact same, as they both seem to be of the same mind re ‘the work,’ – and being indie-fied and artsy…so as to not be typecast and ridiculed as the ‘twilight stars.’
Its played out as I thought. He’s building a body of work with esteemed edgey directors, and staying away from trying to be the Tom Cruise of the 2000teens.
He could very easily tell his agents to put him in the next marvel comic movie, or any number of huge blockbuster type vehicles. He could have had that stupid 50shades even, lol.
He seems to want a serious career, and it appears he has one or is on his way. It’s what he had to do to leave ‘Edward,’ behind.
In that, I think he’s been just as successful as she has, maybe more since hers was expected.
You can compare them when Rob stars in Oscar nominated movies and wins fancy French oscars.. until then – No! What has he done since Twilight? He got decent reviews for The Rover, was in the Cronenberg movie for 5 minutes and Life got so-so reviews so far. Kristen has had fantastic reviews in the 3 movies released since Twilight. She has played tricky roles opposite 2 of the best actresses in the business and held her own, and Camp X-Ray required a talented actress to pull it off too.
I’m not a K Stew hater but Posey has more charisma in her pinky finger than this chick.
oh i wasnt clear in what i meant. i didnt mean Robert i meant her affair Rupert Sanders. People said she would be done because she is a woman and he wouldnt suffer because he is a man.
See this is the kind of psycho behavior I’m talking about. They aren’t each others competition dear. They’re two actors trying to leave the ridicule of Twilight, and typecasting behind. Yes, I do think they’re on an overall even playing field, just looking at the projects they’ve gone after and what they could greenlight if they so chose. I think Pattinson could probably get major high profile typical blockbustery roles if he so CHOSE, a bit easier than she could given her very obvious ‘type,’ I.e., no one would be casting Stewart as wonder woman, but Pattinson has been talked up as James bond 2020 for instance.
@Cleo
Like i said, talk to me when Rob wins an award for acting that isn’t fan voted and when he is seriously discussed as potentially an oscar nominee. Kristen has already been cast in a blockbuster movie as Snow White which made over 400m.
And you are entirely biased against Kristen and Pro Rob, so your forecasting Rob as Bond is irrelevant. (Besides, i thought they weren’t in competition???)
I am talking about what has actually happened – and Kristen’s success speaks for itself
Must have been a very controlled burn. Like my parents neighbors in the sticks when they burn leaves…dead, dry. smokes a bit, but typical occurrence for the area. Barely turns heads. And she’s about as feral as a lap dog.
Yup. I don’t get why she thinks she’s so tortured and hip – she’s lived a life of incredible privilege and incredible isolation. I don’t see a single thing that she set on fire – I don’t think the oops moment of being caught cheating counts. It was so darn pedestrian and bland.
How self-centered can one person be? “Set her world on fire”- and then doesn’t care who gets scorched. And sorry, long hair or no, sexy and this girl really don’t go together.
Ikr? She seems so selfish. Clearly, she has no trouble sleeping after what she did to these people.
I give her a pass. I think her being so unapproachable and seemingly pretentious in her late teens and early twenties was a defense mechanism. As for the scandal with the affair, I feel sympathy for her. Cheating on someone, no matter the circumstances, is an irrevocably selfish and horrible thing to do, however she was twenty-two when it happened and the consequences she faced for it should have been handled privately. Instead, she was shamed and ostracized by the media to appalling ends. There’s no justification for branding a young woman with sexist, misogynistic terms, especially for a mistake she made in her private life.
“Maybe to most people long hair is prettier. But then what? Is your main goal in life to be desired? That is boring as f-ck.”
I’m rooting for Kristen. She may not be eloquent on the whole, but she is right on with this thinking. I also think she is insightful, discussing the debilitating effects of anxiety and control.
I also think much of her angst and struggling is that she is young, smart and emotional — yet entrenched in Celebrity.
Kudos to her for that comment and judging by the proponderance of women posing and preening and tripping over themselves to be desired, she’s right. You can’t even open a newspaper now (yes some of us still like to look at a paper) without seeing some actress, singer, model or reality “star” pretty much undressed. I know guys just love this but is it ever enough? It seems that all these women want is to be desired, and that includes the non-famous and their endless stream of pouty, tits and ass out selfies that flood social media. In that way I find her refreshing as she seems to not be jumping on that band wagon.
Umm…….hate to be the one to point this out, but aren’t the pics of her in this very magazine spread all about her being an object of desire? Otherwise why all the makeup and the lace bodysuit and general pantless-ness?
Again she’s so unnecessarily judgey, I mean wtf? So now any woman with ‘long hair,’ automatically is trying to be sexy and desired as opposed to the cool short haired women who are so ‘rill,’ and have a purpose. Fine, I’ll tell Angelina, Michelle Obama and Hilary they’ve wasted their lives on the superficial. She’s such a doorknob. Ugh.
Where does she say that other women with long hair only want to be desired?? Your level of sad projection is astounding, but it’s pretty cool to see how much she gets under your skin over a hair comment!!
To “G,” again, everyone knows it’s you playing Stewart’s staunchest defender, so why put MY handle “@Cleo,” where YOUR screen name goes?
Use your own handle, what are you afraid of?
That said, since you’re fond of quotes: “Maybe to most people long hair is prettier. But then what? Is your main goal in life to be desired? That is boring as f-ck.”
That is a remark in general about ‘long hair,’ and why people who wear their hair long, ‘have a main goal to be desired.’
I see a lack of comprehension and self-awareness is something Stewart and her holdover fan base share.
Also, she doesn’t get under my skin – I find that sad lack of awareness, and ugly behavior fascinating, in that she seems to be just as bad as she was at 21. Where’s the maturation process?
Unlike MOST people, I do think she has some talent, and find her very pretty when she’s not slack jawed. She’s not my enemy, unlike how Pattinson and anyone even slightly critical of Stewart, seems to be yours. Lol
I am not “G” so if she said something about Pattinson, don’t assign it to me. Do you not understand using the @ before your name? I was directing the comment to you, not stealing your moniker.
And yeah, I stand by my statement that she doesn’t say that all women with long hair just want to be desired. She says IF your main goal in life is to be desired, then you’re boring. Which I wholeheartedly agree with.
I don’t know what ugly behavior she has. She might garner attention from people like you who are so hung up in her comments about HAIR, so maybe you think that’s ugly behavior? She pretty much just works now and then when she talks you blow her words out of proportion. So yeah, I think she pretty much gets under your skin.
Sorry but I’m feeling this interview.
#sorrynotsorry
I still just get spoiled, entitled young person with a persecution complex and no sense of reality.
Other stars have been unaccessible; she’s unaccessible but needs you to know it’s because she’s above it all and too cool, and that all other actors are posers.
I like the hair, but I find the pandering for brands at odds with her request to be left alone and that she’s above it all.
Oh wow Kristen, you’re so “feral and edgy” with your short hair, f bombs and new girlfriend! I’m so overwhelmed by your vocabulary!
Ugh! I like her, I don’t want to but dammit I do and I don’t even know why!
The cursing doesn’t bother me. I swear without even thinking about it, the “F” word pops out of my mouth at the most inappropriate times but it just comes out.
I wish her luck in the future. She has lived under a microscope for so long and has made some extremely public mistakes. She shouldn’t have to apologize to the world, she should only have to apologize to those directly affected by those mistakes. She’s growing up. She could have taken the whole stardom thing in a completely different direction than she has. She could be Lindsay Lohan, she could be in jail, she could have turned out so differently. I wish her success because there have been roles where she can act. The acting in the entirety of the Twilight saga was horrible. How does one even work with that?
She looks so great in that last picture.. Gorgeous picture.
oh, PLEASE. She played the media as hard as she could about how ‘edgy’ and ‘different’ and ‘not like other girls’ she was (one Cool Girl, coming right up!) and when the cheating scandal broke, most media outlets and fans went out of their way to handle her with kid gloves and downplay it – so many articles basically painting RPattz as the ‘lame Twilight boyfriend’ that she needed to leave behind to ‘grow as an artist’ or whatever. And this was right on the heels of her starting to acknowledge the relationship publicly.
I would not wish the Twihards on anyone, but honestly most of them were more on Kristen’s side than Rob’s – so much anger was directed at him, insistence that the pap pics of her + Rupert were photoshopped, no end to it even now. At least she isn’t a drug addict or a drunk driver, just a standard special snowflake. That’s positively benign in Hollywood, compared to the Lohans and Biebers and Kardashians.
“most media outlets and fans went out of their way to handle her with kid gloves and downplay it ”
I’m curious, how do you think the media should have handled the affair?
I seemed pretty bad from all ends. She got called a Trampire, homeworker and slut. A company made shirts that read “I fu*king hate kristen Stewart”, “take a dump on kristen Stewart”
There were so many comments that ridiculed for actions (rightly) and for who she is as a person.
Some fans stuck by her, while any others dropped her…
What more did you want the media to do?
How do I think the media should have handled it?
How about not going through extreme pains to beg readers to cut her some slack and allow her to make “some mistakes” (Vogue UK profile of her in 2012)? How about her PR not dropping constant stories of how RPattz was too dull and staid for her edgy self and so ‘drove’ her to hump her married director in a public place? (which would be believable if, literally weeks before those pics dropped, she hadn’t been talking about wanting to sniff her boyfriend’s armpits and have his babies)
Some corner of her batsh*t insane fandom was always going to be mad at her and call her names but quite frankly, the mainstream media and even a majority of her fandom has handled her with extreme kid gloves compared to other famous women who have been accused (unlike her, without the photographic evidence) of ‘home wrecking’. (see: Jolie, Angelina). If anything, after the initial few days of shock, I saw more anger directed at Rob by the fans for ‘not taking her back’ after that mess of a public apology.
She looks gorgeous in the last photo.
anyway, it’s been three years and I hope she’s learned something from that experience….though apparently ‘don’t use dumbass hyperbole’ is not part of that something.
I mean, seriously, “I lit my universe on fire and I watched it burn?” Did she actually say that, in real life and on tape to a journalist?
She’s super gorgeous. Not too keen on the cover but i find that every major magazine always picks a so so photo for the cover when there are so many better alternatives. Why is that? These people are supposedly experts.
I love her for getting on with her life and not allowing the court of public opinion – which was incredibly misogynistic – bring her down. She genuinely seems happier and more comfortable in herself now. And yes, age is something to respect, not dread. We all need time to get our sh#t together. We are supposed to evolve as humans. I hate when i see 21 year olds talk about how ‘old’ they are. ‘Ooh i’m 22 tomorrow- so depressed’ – really?
Oh Kristen Stewart..why does the diarrhea that spills out of your expressionless face still fascinate me?
Ummm…after the fire that burned down her universe, when the smoke cleared…is that when the acting lessons begin?…please?.
Still annoying, still a bland girl in edgy packaging.
She is a pretty girl, but she comes off as an insufferable twat.
How do you get from “deeply sorry for the momentary indiscretion” to the arrogance of “I set my universe on fire and watched in burn”? Is anything genuine with her?
Why is everyone assuming she is referring to the cheating and not the aftermath? She’s talking about moving on from the past. She set the past on fire and watched it burn. Moved on.
My word, she’s just gorgeous. That face is flawless, classic. I’ve seen her in a Still Alice and she was so good. I’ve also seen Clouds of Sils. I think she’s a good actor. I also like her refusal to preen sexually.
She’s gorgeous.
She looks gorgeous in the last photo because she finally shut her damn mouth!
I adore the whole photo shoot! She is so beautiful. Always like the fact that she looks incredible be it glamorous like now or androgynous like earlier this year.
I can’t wait to see “American Ultra”!
For her interview, it is quite simple. Everybody understands it the way they want to understand it. Her success does bother some way too much. Nothing new. More importantly, the general public is changing their opinion of her.
Hope it will be reprinted in my country, I would love to buy it.
She really is a stunning girl.
She tries everything to be on the news. Now I can see because people don’t like her.
Yeah she lit a universe on fire alright but it was two children’s universe that was rocked, not the arsonist. Kristen Stewart. I don’t get it with this extremely ugly minded person. She seems to have utterly no common decency or she would show some regret for the marriage she helped break-up (Rupert more responsible). And KS apologists, please don’t spew back that the marriage was already done, dead, or whatever, the fact remains she cheated and the publicity from the affair was what drove the final nail and will be what the children will ultimately remember as what happened to the parents marriage.
And if she hates the public or media so much, why does she pander to Karl Lagerfeld?
“The public kind of burned me at the stake”.
She will acknowledge her own pain and suffering, but she has “no regrets” about the pain she caused others.
I saw this on twitter (re her smiling when she says how she “watched it burn”) and it seems quite on point: “She seems to relish in the fact that she fucked ppl over, that’s not a rebel, that’s an asshole”.
As a Rob fan, it is frustrating to hear how utterly callous she seems to be, especially when he was so dignified and respectful to her after the way she hurt him. She may look gorgeous in this shoot, and be talented, but I dislike her more and more every time she opens her mouth.
I’m right there with you Anname. I also read something else on twitter that made me think…..
In her interview right before she was caught cheating, she said her life was “perfect” and she needed to something/someone to “f*ck her over”. But, now’s she saying her late teens, early 20’s were bad and she was miserable! So which is it Kristen, was your life perfect back then or was it miserable? I think it only reiterates that she lies and nothing she says genuine.
I find her rather likable.
And long or short – she has really beautiful hair.
I also think her hair is beautiful. She’s right to feel sexy about it as everyone else too. How you feel about your hair is only your business. It’s sad to see some women here trying to ridicule her for it because her hair doesn’t conform to their standards. But unfortunately not surprising at all. Comments on K’s threads get quite ridiculous.
She’s not even pretty but I can see why other bland average looking girls like her, she makes them feel good about themselves and so they see themselves in her average face.
This is why Hollywood loves these vanilla “it girls”. You can’t have them be drop dead gorgeous, otherwise girls would feel insecure about themselves.
One of the luckiest people in show business, ever.
Does anyone think she’s attractive? I just don’t get the appeal.
I love this interview and the pics (except the cover). I think she is aware of her pitfalls and the troubles of her past, but it’s good to see her move on and live her own life. Nice that she is achieving success.
I always get excited when Kristen has a new editorial or cover, because I think she takes the most amazing photographs – she is just so breathtakingly gorgeous, and she can pull off some of the most intricate looks. LOVE it!
Why don’t people speak simply. It doesn’t make her less interesting to speak simply instead of all these words learnt from self help books.
She still comes out looking like a sociopath
I can’t stand this woman. If she were a good actress I think I could give her a pass for her terrible and annoying public persona. Remember Angelina Joilie as a young actress? Angie was super angsty and super into herself but it was ok because Angie was beautiful and talented and she made good movies so her blood vial wearing daddy issues didn’t matter so much. Stewart is a TERRIBLE actress. TERRIBLE! I can’t even stand to watch her on screen because she’s totally flat, just a lip-biting, mouth breathing hipster who is not convincing in any roles she tries so hard to play. There are only two movies I like Kristen in, The Panic Room and Into the Wild. I believe she made both of those when she was still very young. SWATH was terrible. On the Road was awful. The Twilight movies were not even watchable.
I like the last photo a lot, she really looks better with shorter hair.