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“That was my biggest dream, and I really worked hard at it. We both did,” Jennifer Lopez tells Vanity Fair in her first interview since announcing that she and Marc Anthony are divorcing. “Sometimes it doesn’t work—and that’s sad. But I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love,” Lopez says. “It’s still my biggest dream. I am positive—determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person. I now look forward to new challenges. I feel strong.”
Lopez opens up to contributing editor Lisa Robinson about her life with Anthony and the example she hopes to set for her children; she talks about her relationship with P. Diddy and breaking off her engagement to Ben Affleck; she’s honest about the diva rumors that surround her, and shares her attitudes toward money, fame, and especially love. “I’m a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love,” Lopez explains, describing the passage that has brought her to her current state of mind. “It’s not that I didn’t love myself before. Sometimes we don’t realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself—if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now.”
“I will always respect Marc as a singer and performer,” Lopez tells Vanity Fair. “We actually work great together, and he was always very supportive. Together we could make magic—and we did. He will always be in our lives. He will always hold a special place in my heart as the father of my children.”
Behind The Scenes Video:
With a season of American Idol under her belt, an expansive product line releasing through Kohl's, and a Greatest Hits album out this fall, Jennifer Lopez is ready to step back into a spotlight that is all her own. Go behind the scenes with Mario Testino as he photographs the eternal diva for the September 2011 cover.
Lara Stone, the face of Calvin Klein recounts how she went from working at McDonald’s to working the runway.
By Krista Smith•Photographs by Norman Jean Roy•Styled by Jessica Diehl July 2011
A teenage Lara Stone, who had been working at a McDonald’s in her native Holland, was on vacation with her family in Paris when she was approached about becoming a model. “In 1999, I did a model competition in Holland and I didn’t win, and then at 16 I was expelled from high school, and that’s when I went to live in Paris,” says Stone, now 27. She didn’t walk her first Paris runway, however, until 2006 (for Givenchy), but soon thereafter her star exploded and she became the exclusive face of Calvin Klein. Now her annual income is nearly $5 million, and she spends half her life on a plane.
It has been more than three decades since a model has worked the gap between her teeth so effectively—think Lauren Hutton. Pressured to fix it, Stone held fast. “I always quite liked it, and my mom taught me that it was something unique and special and it made me stand out more,” she says. “And I agree—I think it’s really cute.”
In 2010 she married British comedian David Walliams (Little Britain, Dinner for Schmucks). The couple recently celebrated their first anniversary in Italy, and Stone got to thinking: “I’ve always been really bad at the life-planning thing, but I’d like to make it a plan to one day learn how to cook and be like an Italian housewife.”
Although Stone hasn’t yet been persuaded to act, there is at least one part she’d consider. “I’d quite like to be a Bond girl—an evil one,” she says. “I think I could pull that off. And maybe I’d like to be in Zoolander 2 as well—the first one is, like, the best film ever, and it’s very true.”