Anne Hathaway: Beauty Is About Finding Balance

Gorgeous and radiant, all that doe-eyed Anne Hathaway sees of herself are weird features. She thinks she's not very pretty but it's not as important as authenticity.


Blooming like a spring flower in the March cover of InStyle magazine (to hit stands this Friday), Anne Hathaway shares:

"I think I've got really weird features. I have very large features on a very small head. But, you know, I'm not going to beat myself up. It's my face. I'm not very pretty. But that's OK because I do know that I look like myself, and I think at the end of the day, as nice as pretty is, authenticity is more important."

Beauty for this 27-year-old actress is striving for equilibrium. She maintains her figure by working out to balance her curves with tone. For her personal style, she embraces the tomboy-by-day, glamazon-by-night approach.

"If I don't work out at all, I have too much curve and no tone — which is not OK. It's about finding balance.

"In the evening it would never occur to me to go out in motorcycle boots like this (referring to the black Burberry pair she wears during the interview). I love going out in high heels and dressing up and glamming it up, and having there be a distinction between what happened throughout the day and the evening."

Anne Hathaway also finds style inspiration in the Hollywood icons who she believes to demonstrate "innovation and originality" and this includes Marc Jacobs (her all-time favorite designer), Tilda Swinton, Selma Blair, Natalie Portman, Gwen Stefani, and Lady Gaga.

"I like people who are true to themselves," she says.

Mandela Film Casts Jennifer Hudson, South African Actors Object!

Looks like Jennifer Hudson's Oscar award could not convinced South Africans for her big role in upcoming Nelson Mandela film.

The 28 year-old singer-actress is casted to play ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a movie about the South African's first Black president. But South African actors object!


The Creative Workers Union of South Africa has expressed disagreement for the casting of the American actress because they believed that using foreign actors to tell the country's stories is undermining efforts to develop the national film industry.

In The Citizen newspaper, union's president Mabutho Sithole has said, "It can't happen that we want to develop our own Hollywood and yet bring in imports."

Union secretary general Oupa Lebogo has voiced out the same concern in The Times, saying "This decision must be reversed, it must be stopped now. If the matter doesn't come up for discussion, we will push for a moratorium to be placed on the film."

Jennifer Hudson, who has won the Oscar's best supporting actress in 2007 for her role in "Dreamgirls," is casted for the role of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela just last month. As the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, she has tirelessly called for his husband's release during his 27-year imprisonment but her image would later be tarnished from involvement in a series of scandals leading to her separation from him.

The objection to the casting choice comes just days before the opening of the film, "Invictus," which focuses on Nelson Mandela and the South Africa's 1995 rugby World Cup victory that united the nation. The film is directed by Clint Eastwood with South African film-maker Darrell J. Roodt. Morgan Freeman plays the role of Nelson Mandela while Matt Damon plays the rugby team captain.

Actress Bette Davis On Stamp

How would you like to get your own famous face in a national postage stamp, just like Bette Davis?

The late actress Bette Davis was recently honored in a new 42-cent U.S. commemorative postage stamp, in all her iron-willed image.

The stamp was released on Thursday in Boston. It featured the face of the American actress in her Margo Channing role from the famous 1950 film, “All About Eve.”

Actress Bette Davis was known for being difficult to work with yet she was also reported to be the highest-paid Hollywood actress in 1942. She was known for the epitaph, “she did it the hard way” because she viewed her life as difficult but rewarding.

Indeed, Bette Davis is one of the few famous actors who have created a legacy. It's not surprising then that people chose to remember her through a national postage stamp. Inspiring isn't it?