Anne Hathaway Sad About Her Lack of Sex Appeal

Anne Hathaway covers Harper’s Bazaar February 2013 on which she appears to be having a Photoshop stroke. She’s a pretty girl but that’s an unflattering cover photo of her face. Right? Inside the issue, the 30-year-old says you’ve got it all wrong if you think she’s a ‘vanilla’ girl with no sex appeal because she’s wearing your grandmother’s support garments and good girls don’t wear corsets.

On her image: ‘I’m not Rihanna. I’m not cool. When people come up to me in the street, they often want a hug not a photo, and they want that because they like my work. For a long time it was me and [my manager] against the world. I was seen as this bizarre-world good-girl cartoon that I in no way identified with… very vanilla, very sweet, very accessible and not interesting. I had no grit, no sex appeal.’
On turning 30 as a woman in Hollywood which is like turning 60 as a guy: ‘It doesn’t help that the new crop of girls is so gorgeous, and so 22 years old. But I’m excited about it.’
On how her husband nearly ruined Les Mis because Hathaway found it hard to fake sad: ‘He walks into a room, and I light up. I can’t help it’ she said. ‘A few days into it [filming Les Misérables] I said ‘I’m having too much fun, I just want to play with you and I need to be really sad right now.’ I knew from the second I met him that he was the love of my life.’

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