Hilary Swank is ringing in the new year with a roar! The Academy Award winner recently posed with a 9-week old lion cub during a photo shoot for the January issue of “Ladies’ Home Journal”.
Here are a few excerpts from her interview with the magazine:
On why she’s happy with herself: “I love the fact that I think I’m the type of girl who can hang with the poorest of the poor and the richest of the rich and still fit in. It’s probably one of my characteristics that I’m most proud of.”
On divorce and moving on: “I just thought, ‘I’ve really got to get out and get back into the world and back into what’s important in life.’ No scrutiny, no ‘what am I wearing through this.’”
On children: “Since I was 7 I’ve thought I’m going to have kids someday. So definitely, definitely.”
On her experience rescuing pets after 9/11: “Surreal. People couldn’t get back to their apartments, so we’d go in and get their animals out. It was amazing. They were grasping at any sense of the things they loved and reminded you of what was important in life. It was like, ‘My animal!’”
Marie Osmond had a fantastic year by winning over America’s hearts on “Dancing With The Stars”. She’s so cute! In the January issue of “Ladies’ Home Journal” she opens up about her divorce, her weight, and her family.
On control and divorce: “The only way people can control you is if you let them. I’ve allowed that. And…goodbye. My life is not over. It’s just beginning, because I’m aware. There are so many women out there hurting. It’s in their faces and their eyes. Fifty percent of women now are divorced and raising kids by themselves. I think about that and, you know, I don’t want them to give up. Life is not meant to give up.”
On moving forward: “You know, you spend the last half of your life fixing what the first half did to you. In the first half of my life, I was terrible to myself. Chugging power drinks to stay awake. For years I abused my body. I mean, you’re 15 and you’re told if you don’t stop eating we’re gonna cancel the show because you’re an embarrassment to your family. Fifteen!”
On her ever-expanding family: “My mom told me, ‘You’ll know when you have accumulated whatever you agreed to care of in this life. You’ll know.’ And if it hadn’t happened to me I never would’ve believed her. But the moment they put my last baby in my arms it was like, ‘I know. We’re all here. The gang’s all here.’”
Why she put on weight: “I put so much weight on with my parents being sick. You just sit there and talk to them and drink milkshakes.”
Training for Dancing with the Stars: “I thought I’d be a little ahead of the game going into this because I’ve been doing my walking and biking. Think again! There are moves involved in ballroom dancing that require so much flexibility; I don’t know how anyone with a skeleton can pull them off! Jonathan, my dance partner, says it will all get easier in time…The one bit of encouragement is that Jonathan was telling me that everyone who does the show loses weight and ends up in the best shape of their lives.”
Her life goal: “My all-encompassing, life-long goal is to be a happy grandma. It was my mother’s greatest joy, and she had 58 grandchildren and 36 great-grandchildren. Even the mere thought of not being around to enjoy that time with my future grandchildren is heartbreaking. And my youngest, Abby, is only 5 so I knew I had to figure it out now.”
