14 DAY TRIAL // Until a few years ago, Ryan Phillippe was the typical teen heartthrob: curly blonde hair, blue eyes, a smile to kill for and an even hotter body made of him the guy teen girls would dream of when going to bed at night. In many ways, Ryan has changed, having long ditched his teen idol image but, if there’s one thing that remains the same, that’s his unbelievably fit condition, which he shows off for the May 2010 issue of Men’s Health magazine.
On the cover of the mag, the star is pictured bare-chested with a hoodie on his head and looking somewhat in an intimidating manner into the camera. The spread inside the mag reveals that, in the picture in question, Ryan is actually working with free weights – which would also explain his bulging muscle which are beyond well defined. Other photos show him running on the beach and doing all kinds of physical exercise, while, in the interview, he speaks of having his heart broken, his acting and growing up.
“I thought the most experience you had, the more certain you would be about life. But I’m finding the opposite, man. I’m more in wonder and confusion than I was in my 20s,” Ryan says of growing older. Also confusing are his feelings about his divorce from Reese Witherspoon, for which he took most of the blame because of allegations of cheating on his part. “I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings?” Ryan asks.
As for his career, the actor reveals he had a hard time accepting the role that would put him on the map, that of a gay teen in the soap opera “One Live to Live.” He was just 17 years old, so that would explain why he was reluctant to accept the part. “I would worry, ‘What will the people at school think?’ And they shunned me in a lot of ways. But it ended up being an incredible experience and such a time of growth for me,” he adds, not once coming to regret the decision of doing the role.
For more on Ryan Phillippe in his own words and, of course, more photos of him working out and showing off that toned body, please see Men’s Health here or pick up the May issue, out on newsstands now.
