14 DAY TRIAL // Heather Graham is, without a doubt, one of Hollywood’s most famous stunners because, at 43, she could easily pass for a woman in her early 30s. With all that, she admits that she didn’t always feel as confident in herself as she does today.
In fact, she tells Women’s Health magazine, now out on newsstands with a new issue, she felt a huge contradiction between the characters she played onscreen and who she knew she was in real life.
Insecurities, it seems, do plague all of us, whether women or men, famous or not.
“I always wanted to be the pretty girl, but I thought I wasn’t. When I started acting and getting pretty girl roles, I felt like I was just pretending, and nobody saw I was just this big nerd,” the actress says, admitting that she had moments of crippling insecurity, as cited by the Daily Mail.
In the same interview, Graham, who was most recently seen on the big screen in the third and final “Hangover” film, laments the fact that Hollywood remains misogynistic because most movies feature male leads and are targeted for a male audience.
Few are the projects in which a woman’s point of view is presented and, Heather says, when one such film does come out, it hardly gets any attention from the press.
On a more personal topic, Heather reiterates what she said in previous interviews as well about not dying to start a family and become a mother.
Her fans must know that she’s what you might call a “free spirit,” even saying once that she was happy she didn’t get married because, this way, she gets to meet more people.
“I’m not the kind of person who needs to be a mother no matter what. Life brings you people. Maybe I’ll nurture someone who’s not my child, like a friend, or an actor I’m working with who needs some love,” Heather explains.
“He’d be fun, kind and interesting. So you can have intimacy through being open with each other,” she adds.
For the full interview, pick up the latest issue of the magazine at newsstands.