“I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph,” Kristen Stewart tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Ingrid Sischy in July’s cover story. “I
get some serious shit about it. I’m not embarrassed about it. I’m proud
of it. If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in
the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, What an actress! What a
faker! That thought embarrasses me so much that I look like shit in
half my photos, and I don’t give a fuck. What matters to me is that the
people in the room leave and say, ‘She was cool. She had a good time.
She was honest.’ I don’t care about the voracious, starving shit eaters
who want to turn truth into shit. Not that you can say that in Vanity
Fair!”
On top of battling personal reluctance, Stewart also struggles with the public’s preconceived notions about her personality. “People have decided how they are going to perceive her,” Robert Pattinson tells V.F. of Stewart. “No matter how many times she smiles, they’ll put in the one picture where she’s not smiling.”
But for all her nose-thumbing at critics who demand perfection, she
looks pretty perfect in the photographs from July’s Vanity Fair, in
which she poses at locations across Paris in spring’s couture for
contributing photographer Mario Testino. In some of the most glamorous
photographs, Stewart wears haute couture at the ballet, posing with
dancer Jérémie Bélingard in a pantless Jean Gaultier corset and dripping
in Fabergé diamonds and emeralds, at right. Of her personal style, she
tells us she’s evolved into loving wearing “some cool shit” from the
world’s most respected and avant-garde designers, although she wasn’t
always attuned to the power of fashion. “Look at a picture of me
before I was 15. I am a boy. I wore my brother’s clothes, dude! Not like
I cared that much, but I remember being made fun of because I wasn’t
wearing Juicy jeans. I didn’t even think about it. I wore my gym
clothes. But it’s not like I didn’t care that they made fun of me. It
really bothered me. I remember this girl in sixth grade looked at me in
gym and was like, ‘Oh my God! That’s disgusting—you don’t shave your
legs!”
Now past the initial sting of her harsh childhood critics, Stewart has
developed into a wry and at-ease adult, and Sischy caught her in the
mood for modest adventures—like when she takes the actress to a quiet,
tucked-away table in the back of a Parisian seafood restaurant, where
they are offered escargot, a dish that Stewart has never tried. After
warily eyeing the snails, she dives right in—washing them down with
white wine and bread—and says with a grin, “Pretty good. Though I just don’t want to eat a whole plate of them.”
Of her life as a major star, she reflects on the moment when she realized that Twilight had changed her life. “You
can Google my name and one of the first things that comes up is images
of me sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe with my ex-boyfriend and
my dog. It was [taken] the day the movie came out. I was no one. I was a
kid. I had just turned 18. In [the tabloids] the next day it was like I
was a delinquent slimy idiot, whereas I’m kind of a weirdo, creative
Valley Girl who smokes pot. Big deal. But that changed my daily life
instantly. I didn’t go out in my underwear anymore.”
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