Cheryl Cole, whose 2011 calendar we saw last month, covers the UK’s Vogue as shot by Patrick Demarchelie. For the October 2010 issue, as we approach Winter, Cole, who was granted the first stage in her divorce before it becomes final (after a legal cooling-off period), wears light Spring/ Summer fashions on a multi-colour cover. The singer and malaria-stricken (now better) X Factor judge stars on a pink cover with more pink and orange writing. Her make-up is pale, though pretty, and her yellow silken dress looks better suited to an April cover. Moreover, as a TFS forum member points out, the flowers she’s holding look like they were picked up from a petrol station forecourt. Not exactly fresh, fitting, or elegant. If they cost more than £2.99 (shy of $5), I’ll eat my hat. From the byline, Cheryl’s Fresh Start, one can correctly assume she’s talking about the joys of being free from her cheating ex. For her second picture, below, Cole is slightly more covered, but basically still looks like a Spring/ Summer spread vomited all over her issue. Her excerpts and second picture are below.
- On whether she feels betrayed by her cheated ex: ‘Yes, definitely I do.’
- On being grateful she’s rid of him/ accepting their marriage is over: ‘I’ve got to take everything that’s happened and learn from it. I accept that that’s a chapter of my life that’s finished. And I’ve just got to be grateful that I’ve got so many good things going on. I have. ‘
- On being glad she never had children with her cheating ex: ‘And there’s no children, you know? Some people’s lives fall apart, are turned upside-down. Of course, it [the split] is heartbreaking, but it’s not anything remotely like it could have been and I’m very, very thankful for that.’
- On her mind ticking over, due to her hectic work schedule: ‘Night-time, that’s when my brain starts ticking over. I’m frightened of my mind at night. I find myself racing, racing, racing. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and think what was that all about? And it’s so vivid when I dream. So vivid it could be real.’
- On wanting children, and feeling ready: ‘That’s definitely something I want to achieve. It’s the toughest job in the world but I know it must be the most rewarding, too. I am ready now. I’m 27. I’m a woman, not a girl any more. I really feel that.’
- On how having kids would make her less self-absorbed: ‘Thinking about yourself constantly isn’t so healthy. I suppose that’s the point of having children, isn’t it? Being able to live your life through them instead of you, having them be your motivation? That’s the ‘‘right’’ thing, I’m thinking, when you love someone more than you love yourself.’
Image credit to TFS Forum, ONTD. Magazine quotes form Metro UK.
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