“That is what I’ve to clarify to my children,” says “The Woman Subsequent Door” star
Elisha Cuthbert is opening up about what it was like being an “it” lady within the aughts.
Throughout an look on the “Broad Concepts with Rachel Bilson” podcast, the 39-year-old recalled how she was inspired by studio executives to shoot with males’s magazines like Maxim and FHM that had been recognized to over-sexualize younger ladies.
“There was actually no choice again then,” “The Woman Subsequent Door” mentioned on the pod and defined it was what the movie studios “needed you to do.”
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“It is not like I received an Olympic medal. It was just a few record some random journal determined to create,” she mentioned. “When somebody reads my bio, these issues come up. They really do not imply something with regard to me as an individual or my profession.”
She additionally famous that almost all feminine stars on the time had been doing it and it was part of the tradition in Hollywood.
“We kinda ended up in an area on the time the place that was actually taking place. I imply, Halle Berry was doing it, for God’s sake … Jennifer Aniston was doing it,” she continued. “We had been in all probability too younger to be subjected to that, and feeling pressured to try this.”
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“That is what I’ve to clarify to my children,” Cuthbert mentioned, acknowledging the web has immortalized her photoshoots from that decade. “This bizarre, weird outfit and hair extensions. And you understand what’s so loopy? I do not even know the way a lot of these photos are even correct so far as, like, airbrushing … I used to be in my early 20s. I did not look dangerous, however did I look that? I do not even know if the fantasy’s actual.”
Elisha shares four-year-old Zaphire and six-month-old Fable together with her husband Dion Phaneuf.
“If I can take what I do know now about having two kids, and going again, I’d be a lot kinder to myself,” she shared. “Fortunately, I did not have any consuming points or something like that, however I positively obtained caught up in that eager to stay as much as what everybody was anticipating of us, which is [to be] the ‘hottest lady on this planet.’ It is like what? I am an actress. I am not Gisele [Bündchen], what on this planet? I am 5’2″ with little legs and peak. It was sort of ridiculous.”
She concluded, “I really feel like there’s higher methods to filter that these instances of the FHMs … that was so loopy … Residing as much as these ridiculous requirements, it is simply not actuality.”
