Should I discuss my absence yesterday? Late Sunday night, my body went into some kind of disgusting revolt – CB thinks I have food poisoning, I think I have some nasty stomach flu that’s been going around. Whatever is going on in my stomach, I feel like ten kinds of hell.
There isn’t a great segue from my stomach problems to Vanessa Paradis’s marriage problems, but here goes. Last night, Vanessa walked the red carpet solo for her new film Café de Flore. I’m assuming that we’re supposed to think that Vanessa going solo is a sure sign that she and Johnny Depp are definitely over, but throughout their relationship, they’ve often done premieres and stuff solo. That being said, I do think they’re over.
Vanessa Paradis attended the Paris premiere of her new film, Café de Flore, on Monday, marking her first official public appearance since PEOPLE’s report that she and longtime partner Johnny Depp are living separate lives.
The actress, 39, breezed past photographers on the red carpet, pausing only once to pose with Marin Gerrier – the young actor who plays her son in the movie – and the film’s director, Jean-Marc Vallée.
“She had the air she always does – polite, smiling saying hello to everyone inside,” says French TV reporter Christophe Beaugrand. But reporters were explicitly told that no personal questions were allowed.
She sported a black tuxedo jacket, a flowing black tie, rust-colored leather pants and four-inch heels for the event.
Paradis seemed happy to be in Paris and was accompanied by her sister Alysson at the premiere, 5,000 miles away from Depp, who was last spotted in Los Angeles Thursday.
Last week, she was photographed shopping in the French city.
Paradis left the premiere early and briefly signed autographs for fans outside the UGC Danton theater, before heading to the afterparty at the nearby Chez Castel nightclub.
[From People]
I will say this – Vanessa looks really beautiful in these photos. She looks sort of like… Eva Green…? And Johnny might have been fooling around with Eva Green too – what does it all mean?
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.
She looks beautiful!
She looks great! Good for her 🙂
She’s beautiful.
I don’t think she looks anything like the – also beautiful – Eva Green, but that’s just me.
Frankly, if she and Johnny are done, I don’t think Eva Green is his type. I see him more with young models and aspiring actresses.
Also, I think any split is a lot more two sided than a lot of people are making out. Even if she didn’t put him out, I suspect it was mutual.
ITA. I dont think a 14yr relationship ends so black and white
Make-up can do great wonders
Agreed. There are a lot of photos of her without makeup and she looks horrible. She looks really pretty in these photos.
She’s beautiful until she opens her mouth
Cant get past the gap! It doesnt look that bad on some people (Anna Paquin) but here its just horrible.
Well, it actually DOES look bad on Anna.
Looks stunning she’s not one to sulk in a corner I respect that.
I also don’t get the Eva Green comparison – they both have striking eyes I guess but that’s about it. She’s beautiful in that birdlike French way, I love her smile it’s totally unique. I’m always a Johnny fan but hope he doesn’t replace her with some Hollywood trash.
Birdlike? Could you please elaborate? I live in France and my kids are half French, but, i don’t get what you mean…?
I meant it in a positive way, as in delicate, she has a sort of elfin youthfulness despite her age. No offense meant!
She looks like Christina ricci and Rachel bilson had a baby together
Ha! Exactly.
That is a great call…throw in a tiny bit of Kate Moss DNA and there you go.
woah you are so right!
YES! I was thinking along the same lines… that she looks like a product of a Tim Burton mad scientist experiment in which he morphed several women together to create the perfectly imperfect muse.
Beautiful.
Now I understand why her her mouth is closed in almost every picture I have ever seen of her. It kind of looks like Madonnas old mouth.
She’s in Paris looking stunning and happy. He’s been getting falling down drunk. If they have indeed split, my money is on Vanessa having been the one to call it quits.
I second the Vanessa got tired of Johnny’s mid-life crisis idea. I also second the person who posted that they hope he doesn’t replace her with some HW trash.
Love her..she’s beautiful and classy. Johnny’s loss. At least she has the children.
SHE JUST LOOK GOOD WITH MAKE-UP. SHE LOOK OLD NOW.
Vanessa is incredibly beautiful, she looks ethereal and gorgeous…silly Johnny Depp if the rumours about Eva are true!!
Feel better Kaiser 🙂
Wait, now all of a sudden people are going to start paying attention to Paradis just because she is without a MAN and we’re supposed to judge how that makes her feel? Not with Paradis, sorry I can’t. For one because she isn’t a famewh* and two because she’s a smart successful wonderful woman who has proven her worth at a very young age and still stayed somewhat “grounded” and realistic through it all.
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Gaps are cute on little kids. Adults? Not so much.
She is cute until she opens her mouth. She should get that fixed.
Yeah, because we all should look the same…
Yes, because it is imperative that we correct all imperfections surgically or otherwise.
It’s funny how we tell little girls as they aregrowing up to love themselves the way they are and that they are fine and beautiful the way they are. But…once you are an adult, you are OBLIGATED to “correct” aspects of your physical self, so people on the internet will be nicer to you.
Ridiculous.
Personally, I love the gap in her teeth. One of my favorites movies, The Woman on the Bridge stars V.P., and she is not only stunning (and that gap works for her, which you can see when she is in motion rather than a photo), but incredibly talented.
I can’t believe (well, I can, of course) people will pick at her for having a gap between her teeth, and judge her as a person based on that (yeah, they do…don’t act like they don’t).
What’s wrong with being happy with yourself the way you were made?
LIKE!
What’s the most sexy?
“Ooh, I have a gap in my teeth, people won’t like me or men might find me less attractive overall, I need to erase all aesthetic deficiencies that have nothing to do with my personality at all and which makes me human and unique but are not viewed upon society as sexy or beautiful”
Or
“I have a gap in my teeth #kanyeshrug#”
Agreed! LOL – NM6804! That sounds horrible, Kaiser. Stomach flu’s hurt like a bitch, hope you feel better 🙂
She looks great. But I do hate her teeth, as terribly shallow as that is.
To bad they separate I fell sorry for all the kids who have to go thru this it is not easy for them .
She is so gorgeous. I hope she is doing well.
I don’t think she’s pretty at all, only when she wears makeup, and even then she’s still kinda scary looking. I can still see her appeal though.
This.
I think she looks like an alien.
Or a bad copy of Eva Green!
PLEASE don´t insult her! Eva Green can only WISH to be near La Paradis´s level.She is an icon & always was, long before Depp. & that smile of her is her trademark; a very beautiful lady, on the inside out!
I never realized how much she looks like Kate Moss. Anyhow, she’s pretty until she opens her mouth.
That´s her trademark, & it´s considered a sign of great beauty in her culture if you don´t know….
really? a sign of great beauty in her “culture”? wo, I’m French and I’ve never heard of that one!! Having said that, Vanessa is beautiful and she doesn’t have to “fix” anything to look like all the rest of those women with bonded teeth, etc…
Being gap-toothed was regarded as a sign of a strongly-sexed nature in the Middle Ages as told in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale from “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer. In some African tribes having a gap in your front teeth was a sign of wisdom and in France they call it “les dents du bonheur” (teeth of happiness) – from http://www.luckygap.co.uk/
I agree that she and Green share a sort of unusual beauty. They’re both kind of waify and intense. He certainly has a type.
I would never use the word beautiful to describe this ugly gap-toothed creature.
I’m curious. Would you say something so venomous to someone’s face (someone you don’t even know), for no reason at all? Or would you not because it’s hurtful and rude? Yet…online it’s fine. Not just to say you don’t like her looks, but to say it is such a nasty, venomous way.
Matie, you are dead on right. “Unconventially pretty” = Code word for UGLY. In all fairness, she looks like she’s been through some sorrow in her life, but she is definitely not aging well…haggard almost to the point of meth face. And whoever put on her eye make-up needs to be fired. Oh, and Jessica: we’re sorry, but it’s still a free country and we can say any damn thing we want any damn way we want, so bite me.
Things like gap teeth, moles, and grey forelocks might be considered marks against beauty, but its more complex than that. The reason certain people are drawn to such things is because in nature, those things set animals apart from the other, signify new genes and therefore more viable, healthy offspring.
Actually it goes a bit deeper than that. People are attracted to things that are the same. By that I mean the more a collection of faces are merged together, the more people tended to like them. It’s the same mentality that keeps members of a herd safe as they swarm around prey. Superficial markers that members of a herd recognize amongst themselves tend to cause excitement. Vanessa has the classic markers of what people generally consider attractive. Large eyes, clear skin, the facial proportions of someone with a lot of estrogen in her system.
Aside from that, I notice her face is remarkably symmetrical. The reason people might be attracted to symmetry is controversial– some think our brains react to it by wiring, or that it signifies greater health, less gene-cell breakdown.
http://www.faceresearch.org/students/notes/symmetry.pdf
The gap in her teeth is like Cindy Crawford’s mole. It softened and detracted from her unsusually symmetrical face. If Crawford or Vanessa didn’t have their superficial markers, we probably wouldn’t talk about either of them at all.
So in a clinical sense I guess Vanessa might be beautiful. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the universal markers of beauty (health, symmetry, waist-hip-ratio) are there. I think the bulk of her beauty is in her gaze. She has a feminine enough face to pull off the masculine smoulder that she whips out every so often. There’s a disconnect there that’s interesting (imho)
To each their own.
I would never never never use the word beautiful to describe this ugly gap-toothed creature known as FUGnessa.
You needed two posts for this comment? Really?
I shudder to think of what you look like.
She seems very classy. She will survive & thrive away from Johnny who seems immature & somewhat unstable.
Vanessa is beautiful and unusual looking. Her not fixing her gap says good things about her. And fyi Americanos – not everyone in the world considers fake, blazingly white veneers the “perfect smile”. Some people work what they’ve got and that makes them MORE beautiful than the Hollywood clones.
Word! 😀
So true! Japanese girls are actually paying to have their teeth made crooked with stick on yaeba teeth (snaggle toothed fangs) as they believe men find them more attractive, youthful, approachable and the imperfection is considered desirable.
Loved her in “Girl on the Bridge” and I think she’s lovely and alluring. Sorry to hear of troubles with Depp. She seems very grounded, not about getting maximum public exposure, takes care of her kids & doesn’t use them for her own public exposure.
And yes, there’s always a flaw in perfection or symmetry in order to escalate to “beauty”. We see lots of so-called perfect faces which are indistinguishable from other ones & hence quite forgettable.
Lauren Hutton has a gap, and many other famed beauties are technically flawed. Sophia Loren(nose), Charlotte Rampling(eyes), Grace Kelly (jaw). Newer “stars” have plastic surgery to correct their perceived flaws, most often noses. Alterations have become far more common in the last 10-15 years.
i would take her gap anytime over those fake, creepy, ultra white teeth most women in this industry have.
she is gorgeous.
Agreed!! Vanessa’s individual, imperfect, gap toothed smile over Demi & her stark white ‘perfect’ gravestone pegs anyday
She is great in Heartbreaker-a romantic comedy I saw recently. Hilarious movie. She’s enjoyable in it, though she’s the love interest not the lead.
I really like Vaness so its not easy to say but I never thought she was typically beautiful. Knowing her must be most of it cuz’ honestly Im just not feelin’ it. RAWR!
Beautiful and sad.
She looks amazing. Better than I’ve ever seen her.
she looks amazing , and happy , like her work ,
Whether it’s real or put-on for the cameras, kudos to her for projecting a happy, strong image. She refuses to play the victim – very refreshing and respectable.
She looks fine UNTIL she opens her mouth. Just saw a pic of her on another site. OMG you could drive a Volkswagen through the gap in her front teeth. Must be a European thing, but Lord is it unattractive. Johnny, why didn’t you tell her…
she looks great!
I don’t get the eva green comparison?!
They’re both stunning and all, but totally different types of women, not only in looks i think.
Sorry but I still think she looks bad, nothing like how pretty she was before.
vanessa just denied the rumors
Vanessa Paradis appeared on the French TV show “Le Grand Journal” today, Jan. 24, 2012, and was asked about this. After giving a similar answer as last night on the red carpet, the interviewer asked her point blank if she would say outright whether the rumor was true or false so it could be put to rest entirely, her answer in French was “Bien sûr, que la rumeur est fausse” (English: “Of course the rumor is false.”). Question answered.
and she looks prettier than ever, oh my god i cant stand it she is too pretyy
i cant believe you posted pretty pics of vanessa? am i dreaming or what?? you are on her side now??, she is gorgeous really gorgeous
now you made me jealous of johnny, i’d tap dat anyday with gap teeth and all
The only about her that reminds me of Eva is the heavy eyeliner, which I don’t think I’ve seen on Paradis before. Maybe it’s a message to someone? If the rumors are true that VP & JD have been separated for 2 yrs, seeing other people wouldn’t be cheating. Vanessa has been linked to some Frenchies.
I like Vanessa. Saw her in a French interview once and she came off very well, very nice and authentic as a woman and actress. I think she and Depp probably had a good relationship all of those years until it ran its course. Listen, Depp is an unusual man with qwerky habits. I don’t see him with just anyone. I think he and Vanessa worked together, but I’m not sure that he would easily work so well with someone else given his very off-beat personality.
yes, ‘she is the woman’
just letting you know ‘la paradis’ still owns johnny depp’s dick
she said on le grand journal yesterday rumors are false
she looks better than ever (but dont forget about the oscars 2008 and cannes 2010)
eva green cant be on the same sentence than paradis they dont look nothing alike green have big boobs and she looks whorish paradis is the contrary green face is boring, paradis is really pretty and nothing boring and she looks really angelic and she is class.
paradis looks like no one she looks like her just that.
also no one rides johnny depp better than miss paradis she took him away from bitches for about 13 years she deserves an award for that.
la paradis is gorgeous with gap teeth and all celebrities with fixed teeth like donkey smile hilary duff are scary i’d rather a gap teeth.
she looks happy and beautiful
she already denied the rumors
She’s still not wearing her engagement ring. She hasn’t been seen with it for probably a month now.
She just look good with heavy make up. without those she very ugly
no, x17online posted terrible angles of her but normaly without make up she is still pretty watch heartbreaker in some scenes she is without make up and she looks good.
i think she is a gorgeous woman and a natural beauty all in her is real not made by plastic surgery
stunning, so beautiful
gorgeous