The former model and ex-wife of
or they just let things happen. I think, with age, you kind of just let
things happen and do the best that you can. You really have no control.
Becoming powerless and thinking you have no control is a lot safer way
to live — it’s an exciting way to live too because you never know
what’s around the corner.”
What’s around the corner for her is a role in the
new series, “Gravity,” premiering Friday on Starz. It’s a part
seemingly tailor-made for her. She plays an ex-model involved with a
group of eccentrics — all of whom have attempted suicide.
She says she understands her character’s need for
change. “She struggled from trying to go from that ‘youth’ thing to
becoming a woman,” says Hunter, who’s seated in a gold brocade chair in
a lounge here.
Hunter’s original ambitions didn’t involve acting OR modeling. She wanted to be a dancer and studied for 11 years in her native
“I ended up being 5-11 and that’s what I mean when I say things get put
in your way. I had an injury. I got very, very sick and couldn’t dance
for six months. And then this (modeling) came along and I didn’t want
to do it, but it was put in front of me again, so I did it. And things
happen,” she shrugs.
“When you start getting pushy with yourself it gets
in the way. I’m not talking about being laid back and go with the flow,
but just let things happen.”
At 16 she developed toxoplasmosis, a blood disease
which sidelined her. Following her recovery she packed up and left
home. “My parents were breaking up and down there people do leave home
around 16, 17, once you leave high school, which is 16. You kinda do
leave and experience the world.”
Part of that world was
and the high-priced modeling field. Even there she was not competitive,
she says. “Because that was handed to me on a silver platter. I came to
and was doing Elle and Vogue and had Cover Girl commercials and
Pantene. I never wanted to be a model. I just got given that and did
it, and did it for many years and had a slew of different stuff, a
variety of different things as well — reality TV, everything. Nothing
scares me. I’m very fearless when it comes to stuff, so I think you’ve
got to keep knocking, keep doing things you do to see who you are as a
person and to see what your capacity is and just keep going. It’s
almost like I’m a chameleon — whatever rock I sit on, I just fit.”
Even when she wed the famous Stewart, the glare of
the flashbulbs didn’t bother her. “I was pretty well known in the U.S.
when I married,” says Hunter, who’s wearing jeans, a black top and a
black leather jacket.
“I still did what I wanted to do. If you want to
create that drama you can, but I don’t want to. The press are
interested in who they’re interested in, and I’m obviously really
boring so it’s OK (laughs). It’s very different from when I was
modeling. There’s a lot more press around, there’s a lot more shows on,
a lot more press wanting dirt. Actors and models haven’t changed their
lifestyle, it’s the media, they just want to dig up the dirt. And
that’s stupid. They’re creating this mess. … I just choose to keep
pretty much to myself when I’m working.”
Hunter is a single mom with two teens, Renee, 17,
and Liam, 15. “The most normal thing a woman can do is give birth to
children. It’s one reason we’re put on Earth,” she says. “I have
respect for a woman who decides not to have children too because I
think that’s a really great and courageous step to make.”
But for her, motherhood was a calling. “I just loved
the idea of having these amazing human beings, you are guiding them and
giving them the right choices to choose from. I found it very
interesting in thinking to myself, processing before I would choose
what to say and be very, very honest about situations and very open and
aware of the choices I made around them. You’re selfless.”
Would she marry again? She thinks for a moment. “I’m
so lucky the position I’m in now I have two amazing teenagers. I’m 40.
I’m really, really happy with my life right now. If the right person
comes along, great. But marriage? I don’t know. I think the idea of
marriage is amazing, but what if you want to go out with someone else
in 10 years time? … That puts a difficulty into it,” she leans back
and laughs a hearty roar.
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If you’d like to know what goes into the food we eat, tune in to “POV’s” “
Schlosser says, “There’s a need for constant
vigilance in the sense that I think this administration has its heart
in the right place, but even the secretary of Agriculture was not aware
of some of the buying practices for the National School Lunch Program
until some journalist did an investigative piece recently that showed
that the chicken and the ground beef that was being purchased to be
served to schoolchildren across
was so inferior that the leading fast food chains would refuse to
purchase it and that the school lunch program was making its purchasing
decisions solely on the basis of price, i.e. the cheapest meat. And
this was something that I wrote about over 12 years ago, and it’s
incredible that still this sort of thing is going on and that the
federal government has become the dumping ground for the meat that even
the fast food companies don’t want.”
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It’s early to talk Emmys, but
behold. Pacino disappears into Kevorkian’s skin, creating a
multi-dimensional and astonishing character. The supporting characters
aren’t bad, either, especially
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For those of you who didn’t have enough with 94
episodes of “Sex and the City,” your chance will come again when E! and
Style slap their satin mitts on the series next January. Their parent
company has bought the basic cable rights to the show, which starred
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