By Jae-Ha Kim
Chicago Sun-Times
September 14, 1999
Take heart, women. Even Michelle Pfeiffer has issues with her body. She tells Premiere in the September issue:
“I have the utmost admiration for women who are uninhibited and proud of their bodies. I am not one of those women, and I think if I felt better about my body I would probably have done more nudity.”
She also exhibits a good sense of humor about some of her less than choice roles. “I showed (my kids) `Grease 2′, and they got kind of bored with it,” she says with a laugh. “Actually, it’s good they’re seeing it now, when they don’t really know how bad it is.”
It’s gotten to be a tired trend – fashion magazines recruiting celebrities to guest edit their rags. But the always clever Marie Claire got quite a nice coup for its October issue.
Editors provided Monica Lewinsky with a three-day job at the magazine where she got to test makeup and pontificate about herself. The world’s most famous intern proved to be quite quotable.
Marie Claire set up a meeting for Lewinsky – who wants to start up her own lipstick line (I know there’s a joke somewhere, but I won’t go there) – with Lancome President Phillip Shearer.
He didn’t appear that impressed when Lewinsky summed up her nonexistent cosmetics experience with, “Well . . . I was gonna work for Revlon.”
And Lewinsky also almost outs a morning news anchor: “Every time she says something mean about me, it makes me want to publish the three-page hand-written note she sent me begging me for an interview.”
The November issue of CosmoGIRL! includes a page of ‘N Sync stickers and a chat with “7th Heaven” star Jessica Biel. The 17-year-old former model returns to her mannequin roots to grace the cover.
She also proves to be a fun, feisty interview, though I was more entertained at reading the names of her friends, among them Light Dreamer Eternity. (I’m not making this up!)
Biehl says her secret to maintaining close-knit friendships is, “If I was in a fight with a friend, I would just call and be like, `What is the deal? What did I do? What do we need to talk about? How can we get it over with?’ ”
The idea being, I think, to wear out the friend with questions.
