This is one of Kristen Stewart’s most beautiful magazine covers in a while, right? Kristen covers the new issue of the NYT’s T Magazine to promote Personal Shopper, her latest film with director Olivier Assayas. Kristen’s whole shoot with T Mag is incredible – you can see the full package here. Impressively, Kristen really gave it all to the New York Times too – she invited the journalist into her Los Feliz home, showed the journalist her journal, her poems, her paintings and all of the stuff she collected over the years from film sets. This piece is basically a great read just for the description of how Kristen lives. But the actual quotes are great too – in between puffs of cigarettes, she talks about her girlfriend Alicia Cargile, the Robsten stuff and more. Some highlights:
Her anxiety has eased up: She used to suffer from “debilitating physical anxiety” but she’s in a better place now: “I do think that’s because of the storms I have weathered. It’s not that they make you stronger or calloused — but they do make you a human.”
Introvert/extrovert: “I’m not the typical showman. But at the same time, I want so badly to expose myself. I want to be understood and I want to be seen, and I want to do that in the rawest, purest, most naked way I can.”
Looking back on Robsten: “People wanted me and Rob to be together so badly that our relationship was made into a product. It wasn’t real life anymore. And that was gross to me. It’s not that I want to hide who I am or hide anything I’m doing in my life. It’s that I don’t want to become a part of a story for entertainment value.”
Her girlfriend Alicia Cargile. She scrolls through pictures of the two of them on her private Instagram account. “Look how cute she is,” Stewart says at one point. “I love her so much.”
Not hiding her sexuality: “I would never talk about any of my relationships before, but once I started dating girls it seemed like there was an opportunity to represent something really positive. I still want to protect my personal life, but I don’t want to seem like I’m protecting the idea, so that does sort of feel like I owe something to people.”
Navigating fame post-Mini-Coopering: “How do you feel like you’re not being stolen from yet at the same time not guard yourself to the point of depriving yourself of so much goodness in life? Nothing killed me. I was skinny as hell, I looked crazy, but I was fine. I now have faith in my body to carry on, and that has made me a better actor.”
The rest of the piece is worth a read because while Kristen is sometimes painfully self-aware, everything about her just seems lighter, more at peace and generally happier these days. The 2009 version of Kristen would have never allowed a journalist into her home, much less showed the journalist her poems, her paintings, her stuff. I don’t want to say that this is because she’s happy with Alicia now, although I do think that’s part of it. I think the larger story is that Kristen has just grown into her skin, she’s become herself, if that makes sense. As for what she says about Rob and how the press around their relationship became gross… sure. I can see why she would say that. But let’s remember that this is also the self-sabotaging girlfriend who cheated on Rob and then PUBLICLY begged for his forgiveness. Some of the publicity around Robsten was her doing, I’m just saying.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and T Magazine.
lol.
I had the same reaction. She is so immature… and so pretentious. God, I don’t like her. Maybe if she had some talent, I could stand her, but she’s so wooden in her performances. Why did I read this article? Why must I torture myself this way? I’m going to go eat some chocolate.
I wonder what the “Twi-hards” are going to say about this. I only followed the mania for a short time and those I came in contact with by chance were utterly gutted when she and Rob broke up. Their fascination with their “romance” was a bit over the top.
Some still think they’re secretly together and hiding their relationship and two babies.
To be fair it’s probably less than 15 people that actually believe that bs at this point but boy is it hilarious that they do. Good for Kristen I get the feeling that just being honest and open is going to cut her level of annoying in half if not completely. Now if only she’d ditch Woody.
Twilight has been over for years – surely all those people are now over the age of 14 and have gotten over the mania?
And a third on the way!
There are a few hundred people who follow HatersKnowNothing and RunningWithNails blogs – these folks are adamant that Rob and Kristen are still together (married) have two little girls and a third child due in November. Seriously.
They explain away interviews like this by proclaiming that until they hear Kristen say it out loud they will not believe these sleazy magazines. Others claim that she’s just doing this so no one will know that she has 2 precious children hiding somewhere in the Hollywood Hills.
The 2 that write these hate-filled blogs are in their fifties – one lives in Ohio and one lives in North Carolina. One of their biggest followers in a woman in Texas who says she is Kristen’s cousin.
Going to those sites is like going to a Trump rally. Name calling, racist comments about Twigs, vile language. It ain’t pretty.
She profited from the showmance that she and Rob played the Twihards with and she dares to call them gross? I never found her either remotely attractive or talented and now I can add delusional and clueless to the list.
To be fair I don’t know if it was solely a showmance. I remember the reading an Entertainment Weekly interview before the first Twilight and both her and Robert were adamant that they weren’t involved. I think Kristen was still with her other boyfriend. I remember it because it creeped me out how the director, and producers were openly pushing their relationship eventhough neither one was into it. Anyway since they were both very young I just get the feeling they were strongly pressured into a relationship and when they did hook up it was blown up by the promotional people surrounding the movie. Just my theory.
If I rember right she cheated on her other boyfriend with Rob.
They both spoke fairly openly about their intimacy. Something about armpit lacking is still burned into my mind. They were young. She was young. I think there’s some maturity being cultivated here.
She is among those who think they can/should be able to pick and choose whichever part of fame that suits them, and when it no longer works for their objective, they talk about how traumatised they were from the experience, blah blah blah.
exactly, and doesn’t even think about how traumatised Rob must have been with all that shamelessly public cheating. Like, her actions don’t have consequences.
And is it me, or does her girlfriend seem to always have a smug smile on in every papsnap of theirs?
Hmm… I disagree
She signed on to that franchise not knowing it would blow up like that.
Since then, she’s had her head down doing much much smaller films but quietly remaining in the spotlight.
It seems fairly clear that the big moviestar fandom mania isn’t for her. And that is directly reflected by her choices since.
Umm…she’s hardly been “quietly” in the spotlight. She’s been on more magazine covers and given more interviews than any actress out there. She attends all the Chanel (and previously Balenciaga) gigs, posing at each one, as well as other fashion events like the Met Gala. She’s filming multiple movies a year and working the festival circuit. She’s done multiple pap strolls with Soko and Alicia. And that’s all perfectly fine, but OWN it.
You can’t pretend to want your privacy and that you’re living a quiet life, when in reality you are working for the highest level of fame and exposure. She’s free to choose either, for sure. What people object to is that she tends to choose one option, while fronting like she’s choosing the other.
It’s always been fake and so is she. The f-cking Woody Allen appologist.
personally i find Woody Allen gross. and thats not related to his gross looks.
I can’t imagine opening up my home and private letters, poems, whatnot, to any reporter, no matter how good a “place” I was in. The reporter’s not a friend; very, very risky move there.
@Alix: Same. You couldn’t pay me to share any of those things.
She needs a hit. Bad. Whoever does her PR, she is listening.
I actually don’t dislike Stewart but I agree, she does need a hit sometime in the near future. I don’t mean that it has to be a hit action movie, a hit drama or thriller will do. An Oscar nom soon would help her career as well.
I do think that Stewart is more comfortable with the spotlight now and that she is doing some PR at the same time. I’m not mad at her or any actor who plays the PR game. That’s what you do in Hollywood.
I think deep down all show biz people are exhibitionists and need attention to thrive, no matter how much they protest the opposite.
I agree. And it also smacks of passive aggressive exhibitionism to me. She seems like someone who desperately needs validation from others, no matter who they are.
If I were famous, and I went around showing my journals, poetry, etc to a journalist, then I would be inviting the public in to ask questions about that content. And you can’t whine about your lack or privacy or complain that your private life has been or is being made into a product if you play that game.
She is just odd. Also she can make excuses for anything, she cheated very publicly and very stupidly w another man. It always seems like no one can just be accountable.
I want to like her because she is super-cute and they make a super-cute couple with Alicia Cargile, I’m lowkey glad they got back together. But I can’t with the Woody Allen support. Girl bye.
I can’t get it up for her. Like she comes across as genuine and open. But then I watched the little “on set” video the T posted and she says “like” about 20 times in 1 minute and 15 seconds, and she has weird tics. She just annoys me. I don’t wish her ill, I just don’t care.
She’s messy. And the media gravitates towards messy people.
Her cheating on Rob was messy. Her breakup with Soko (who also claimed she cheated) was messy. The common denominator is her.
The only person Kristen has ever cared about is herself. She’s just obsessed with herself. Analyzing, defining, obsessing over her image to the point of exhaustion. There’s no way someone so narcissistic is ever really going to care about another person or their feelings.
She’s SO self-obsessed, my God. Everything revolves around her and her career. It’s all about how things affected her. “The affair affected ME. I suffered, I lost weight, I stopped enjoying things.” Nevermind the marriage that she helped destroy, the little kids that lived through a divorce and tabloid scrutiny, the man she wronged who had to answer to this during the promo of the first serious movie he ever made. This happened to HER and to no one else. Her ego is so out of control. It’s crazy how she played Alicia and Soko just this year. She doesn’t care about anybody but herself. Alicia has no self-respect or dignity left either. She has made a fool out of her more than once. Kristen never respects her partners all the way back to Michael Angarano. I don’t know how they can still trust her with everything they have. But living off her money must be incentive enough to forgive quickly, right Alicia?
@Annie – girl you nailed Kristen Stewart to a “T”. Thank you for saying the truths about Kristen. Now only if all of HW and the movie industry would realize this, we might not have to be bothered with her again.
Don’t forget she cheated on Michael Angarano with Rob too. Girl does not know how to keep relationships from overlapping.
I liked her in this interview, even if she does still sound pretentious at times. Maybe I’m just amused that she’s directly calling out the “Robsten is Unbroken!” types for trying to turn her relationship with Rob into something it never was.
What a narcissist. Not that all actors aren’t, but she’s worse at hiding it.
I don’t understand why she needs to mention Robert so much lately and throw him under a bus like that? He never talks about her. Nobody forced them to be together, not even Summit. The franchise was already huge before they got together. She enjoyed the ego boost and support and adoration Robert gave her every chance he got. She enjoyed being the It Girl so much, now it’s suddenly gross? It gave her what she has right now. Her fans are still batshit crazy WITHOUT the relationship. They are the ones attacking Rob’s girlfriend on social media. They are the ones hating her gf.
She has always had this certain air of superiority in interviews, talking about being more authentic and real than everyone else, yet she’s always getting caught cheating on every single partner she’s ever had and doing things she said she would never do. Are we just going to ignore how she wronged Soko a few months ago? Just because she’s back with Alicia doesn’t mean she didn’t wrong her too. I don’t feel sorry for her after her affair either. If that backlash and all the consequences that followed didn’t humble her a little bit, she’s not one I need to feel sorry for. Three years have passed, stop bringing Rob up.
LOL I posted almost the same thing at the same time.
As a Rob fan, I wish she would shut up about Rob already. This is the second or third time she has made a reference to their relationship to sell her movie or her new image. It just dredges up all the idiotic Robsten articles again, something she is very much aware will happen. Rob has been so respectful of her by keeping silent (more than she deserved imo), I wish she would return the favor and stop opening the door to this stuff to promote herself. I can just imagine the Kristen fandom reaction if Rob said something like how “gross” their relationship made him feel. OMG they would go OFF on him for insulting their girl. And that fandom needs to acknowledge that she is onboard selling her private life now, even though she used to say how awful it was that other celebrities did so.
She always does things she said she would never do. “I don’t sell my personal life! That’s private! It’s gross to be so interested in my private matters!” And here she is using it to promote her projects. Showing poems, private things, talking about relationships that ended three years ago. Rob stayed quiet when he could’ve destroyed her by simply sharing how heartbroken he was, but he was always a gentleman and still is. I think the way a person talks simply shows if they’re unhappy or not. Rob talks like he’s happy, that’s why her fans hate him. I think Kristen knows that all the publicity that being with Rob gave her cannot be duplicated with a nobody like Alicia, so she has to remind people she was too above that relationship while using it to promote new stuff. THREE YEARS. Three years, Kristen. We know he was the best thing about you, but it’s over. Her fans better accept things and stop attacking Rob so much. He put up with a lot.
Oh, the evil media made my private life a commodity! It was terrible! I felt violated! So I had to go suck that guy off in the Mini Cooper in a public spot where I could be photographed!
She’s in her twenties. Of course her relationships are messy. Mine were worse. Studios shamelessly used their relationship to market the movie, of course it felt like a product.
I REALLY hate her hair in the header photo but I love what she is wearing. It’s wonderful on her.
I love how Soko is not even mentioned in the article. Guess that doesn’t jive with how she and Alicia have been together 3 years and she’s so in love. So much for genuine.
She mention in another interview, they have broken up a few times. I don’t see her doing anything other twenty isn’t doing. I like she is just being herself, and is more comfortable in her own skin.
No… not everyone in their 20s cheats. It’s not ok, no matter if you are in your 20s, 30s, 40s, etc. Get the courage to break up with someone before you move on, don’t hurt someone like that. And what’s worse is that Kristen seems to be a serial cheater, so clearly it isn’t something she intends to change.
I’ve never read an interview where she is apologetic twards Liberty. Never a word about how her behavior contributed to a family breaking up. I was skinny, I was crazy, I felt exposed, I had anxiety, Rob please forgive me! I’ll never understand how woman can do that to another woman.
It was actually a really good piece and I loved the photo!
This girl has cheated on ALL of her partners male or female, with the last cheating episode happened two months ago… I’m not buying her ‘I’m so happy and calm now’ narrative, it’s all until she needs some Soko to spice things up again, she’s unstable and plain messy…
Her fans often say “She’s so beautiful and photogenic” This is the first cover where I really see what they’re talking about. She’s not a stereotypical beauty but she has a strong presence and a certain elegance here. As far as the interview goes – it sounds like she has become more comfortable in her own skin.
She takes a good picture. And she knows it.
At some point she’ll realise she likes self-sabotaging so she can remain self-involved and absorbed, and that she can’t stay monogomous if her life depended on it.
Her interviews invariably reverse any goodwill the pictures create so it’s usually best to skip them and/or ignore her entirely.
The best thing she can do is go back to school and get into modelling and photography. I fear her directing given her level of self-absorption, though.