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One of my favorite things in the world is when a celebrity denies having plastic surgery when it’s obvious to the legally blind that the celebrity’s face is jacked to hell. I can’t help it – it’s like Christmas come early. Along with the plastic surgery denials, I love when an actress pontificates on aging gracefully when it’s obvious she has no intention of doing any such thing.
Nicole Kidman has done both – she’s denied having plastic surgery in the past, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and now, in a new People Magazine interview, she’s positively rapturous about aging naturally. Maybe I’m going overboard – because, in fact, when Nicole was asked “How do you cope working in an industry that refuses to let women age naturally and gracefully?”, Nicole answers: “Well, I live in Tennessee so it is slightly different than living in L.A. I just worked with Sophia Loren [in Nine], and she is so gorgeous and she has such grace. I use her as a role model.” So maybe I’m being too harsh. But I still laughed out loud when I read that.
When Nicole Kidman agreed to answer PEOPLE’s reader questions, little did she know she’d be quizzed on her cooking skills (not great, she admits) or to reveal her biggest quirk (she loves coffee – but mostly foam).
But the Oscar-winning actress, 42, who plans on spending the holidays Down Under, was happy to open up about her life in Nashville while doing press in New York City for her upcoming movie musical Nine, which opens in theaters Christmas Day.
As for husband Keith Urban’s whereabouts? The country star played dutiful husband, watching the Tennessee Titans in the adjoining room while his movie star wife answered your questions.
If you could work a normal job, what would you want it to be? – Jessica Lynne Bryson, Chattanooga, Tenn.
I’d love to be an interior designer. I just love walking into a room and redoing it. When my girlfriends are buying an apartment, they’ll always ask me to come along because I’m going ‘You can knock that wall down, just put a little bit of paint there.’What is your favorite new thing that Sunday Rose has learned? – Amanda Mustard, Brunner, Ontario, Canada
She now points at anything and goes, ‘Bug.’ That’s her word. We were in the hotel room the other day, and there was a little sprinkler up in the corner of the room. She kept pointing at it and going ‘bug!’ Keith had to hold her up and prove to her that it wasn’t a bug.What mundane chores do you like to do? – Anna Marie Pugh, Louisville, Ken.
Strangely enough, I love putting clothes in the washing machine. I would always do the washing growing up – that was one of my jobs. And I quite like ironing shirts.What’s your biggest quirk? – Kimberly Taylor, Dallas, Texas
Keith and I love coffee. I love the foam more than the coffee. I will go and order a cappuccino and say, make it all foam and very little coffee. They know me now at the Starbucks in Nashville.How did you overcome your shyness? – Joel Morales, San Juan, Puerto Rico
I think a lot of it has to do with just getting comfortable in my own skin. That’s part of getting older. It’s okay to be 5 ft. 11 in. and all of the things that I used to feel awkward about. I now feel comfortable. A lot of that comes with being loved.How do you cope working in an industry that refuses to let women age naturally and gracefully? – Monika Ballew, Eureka, Calif.
Well, I live in Tennessee so it is slightly different than living in L.A. I just worked with Sophia Loren [in Nine], and she is so gorgeous and she has such grace. I use her as a role model.Your husband has several tattoos, would you ever consider getting one? – Allyson Walker, Allen, Texas
No. I am tattooless.Do you like to cook? – Soqui Ramos, Boston, Mass.
I am a terrible cook. I cook chicken for Keith, and it’s always dry. I’m a much better person to cook for because I love food and I will eat almost anything.
[From People]
Call my crazy, but I kind of dig the new act Nicole is trying to sell – that of the Nashville housewife who gives interviews about doing laundry and cooking. But it does seem boring for Nicole, doesn’t it? I mean, she must miss the days where she was donning a goddess gown every other day. Her role in Nine is a big comeback, in a way. It’s not that her last film, Australia, sucked at the box office… I think it basically made it’s money back and not much else, so it was considered a financial loss. Which is better than some of Nicole’s projects the past few years – so if Nine is a big hit (which I think it will be), Nicole will get some of the credit. And with that, comes more film roles. So she won’t have to sit around Nashville pretending to love cooking chicken.
Nicole (in the animal print) and Keith Urban in London on December 4, 2009. Credit: INF. Nicole also photographed at the London premiere of ‘Nine’ on December 3. Credit: WENN.
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Aging, Nicole Kidman, Plastic Surgery, Sophia Loren
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sometimes i imagine how her life could be diferent if she didn’t took a role in days of thunder… oh well
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Riiiight Nicole, and me being 5’2″ is just an illusion, I’m really 5’10 (in my mind).
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She was so pretty years ago in “To Die For” (I think that was the name-with Joaquin Phoenix as her teenage lover).
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Why is it everytime a story talks about Keith he’s made out to be some nobody who got incredibly lucky to be married to Nicole? He sells millions of cds and sellouts large arenas. I guess if he was a pop artist instead of country he would get more respect and taken seriously.
“To Die For” was a great movie. Nicole does a lot better, moviewise, internationally than in USA (Golden Compass, Australia). I think that’s why she’s still gets roles.
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Nicole looks so weird lately. I don’t find her beautiful anymore (indeed, she was a beauty in the To Die For days…). I think she’s freaky now. And I never understood what she saw in Keith Urban. She used to be this super glamourous red carpet queen, and suddenly, she’s living in Nashville, with one the of the cheesiest guys in the world (he’s soooo corny)? She even lost her sense of style. I don’t even remember when was the last time she wore something decent.
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This is so rich, it has to be fattening.
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uhhh… sophia is FILLED with plastic surgery.
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She was mesmerizing in To Die For…but let’s face it, the lunatic, robotic, and pathologically ambitious character she captured so well on film is apparently NOT foreign to her own personality….
…nobody could marry Scientology Boy without having a bit of that crazy intensity, too.
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Actually, she gave a very good political answer. She said absolutely nothing about how she copes with it, just that Nashville is different from LA (presumably the assumption in LA is that you have had some maintenance, in Tennessee it isn’t) and that she admires how Sophia Loren does it.
I love the fact that she thinks that ordering an abomination of coffee is what marks her out in her local Starbucks – that’s the thing that’s memorable; being an Amazon of an Aussie and one of the most famous people on earth is barely a blip on the radar.
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I have never thought Nicole was pretty even when she was younger. The only thing she had going for her was that she was tall and thin, other than that she looks like “Samantha” from the old tv show Bewitched. Never got what the big deal was over her, average looks, weird personality, she has two other kids that she never sees. Doesn’t seem like a very balanced individual.
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I agree Diva. very weird personality.
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Do her new chiclet teeth count as aging naturally? She looks like a chipmunk…
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I thought she gave a very nice interview. *shrug* And she didn’t say she loves cooking chicken, she said she was terrible at it.
And that’s pretty darn heavy reading between the lines to get all that from her comment about Sofia Loren. Sheesh.
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Ouch. I heard that jab. “A lot of that comes with being loved.” I’m just not sure if it’s directed as a barb at Tom or as a warning to Katie.
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i think she looks good. dont see many people her age maintaining themselves as well as she does.
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Whaaaa? I was always under the impression that Sophia Loren had a deep and abiding romance with the scalpel. Am I wrong?
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With all due respect to Queen Sophia Loren, I can say for certain that she has had palstic surgery, face lift for sure.
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Like Mairead said, she gave a skillfully concealed answer, so by keeping the spotlight slightly off-center she could deflect curiosity and hence lie by omission.
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Give her credit, she said her role model is Sophia Loren, who has had plenty of work done. So she did answer truthfully!
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If Loren is her role model for aging naturally, then we are living in Bizarro World. All of these women are so full of shit. They think we are all stupid, apparently. Loren’s face has been worked over from every angle and so has Kidman’s. Kidman’s hair is very, very thin in that photo in the ponytail; they really have to pump up the volume on her hair so it looks good on the red carpet…it is also obvious her forehead is now alien-high probably from a brow forehead lift to pull up the sagging upper eyelids. Like I have said, very early photos show a creepy plain jane and DAMMIT she was born in Hawaii and not Australia..and why can’t she find a guy at least her height? She was playing herself in To Die For and had already had procedures prior to that movie.
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And yikes, in the big facial shot check out the blue eyes. Where are the limbal rings around the iris? This is the dark ring on the outer circumference of the iris, the colored part of the eye).Leads me to think she is wearing either color contacts over brown eyes, or color enhancers over her natural eyes at the very least.
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