We have been waiting for this moment for so long! And finally here she is – Halle Berry – with a candid interview about her life, career, breakup from Gabriel Aubry and upbringing of her precious daughter Nahla. All this is in the most important issue of the year – Vogue September 2010.
Halle Berry, who kept her mouth shut for over three years, decided to give the interview for Vogue because it was a great honour and because she just had to share about her personal life to stop all those rumours.
She said:
What that means for a woman of color and what that means in the fashion world, what that means to pop culture, there was no way I could say, ‘No I’m not going to be on the biggest issue of the year.’”
Photographed for Vogue September 2010 edition in a few pretty velvet dresses Halle Berry looks beautiful. Her new cropped bob definitely flatters her face. And the actress does look younger and fresher than usually.
Talking about her split with model partner Gabriel Aubry Halle Berry said it was very amicable:
By the time it hit the papers—full of rumors and lies, with people having to make up problems between us—Gabriel and I had long dealt with it. We were done. And we were on a good foot, and we had decided what we were going to do for Nahla, and we were able to say, ‘This will pass.’ It’s just that you realize you are not meant to go the distance with everybody. We were meant to bring this amazing little person into the world. And I think that’s why we came together. And because of that, we are going to be together forever, all three of us. We are a family until we are not here anymore.”
She added:
We have always been friends, we’re still friends, we love each other very much, and we both share the love of our lives. And we are both 100 percent committed to being the best parents we can be. And while it was not a love connection for us, he was absolutely the right person to have this child with because she is going to have an amazing father. And that was really important to me. We’ll make sure we always do what is right for her and put her first. And she will see as she grows that we have a lot of love for each other.”
In September 2010 issue of Vogue Halle Berry talks about how much people don’t know about her. And this generates lots of gossip and rumours that are far from being true.
She said:
Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That’s not how I do life. But that’s the impression people have, and that’s what keeps getting reiterated. As if I’m still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.”
Halle Berry is sure her daughter is her biggest value in life. And she is ready to do everything to make the little girl happy.
She commented:
Best thing that ever happened to me. I’ll tell you a story: I took her shopping, and I had that moment that every parent has. You look away for a second and they’re gone, and your body just gets all hot. And so I had a little breakdown. Shut the doors! I’ve lost my daughter! I look around and, sure enough, 30 seconds later, she pokes her head out: ‘Hi, Mommy.’ But it made me think: What if she really did get lost? Would she be able to say who she is? So that night, I said, ‘What’s your mommy’s name?’ And she looked at me like, You idiot. Why are you asking me what your name is? I asked her again: ‘Nahla? What is Mommy’s name?‘ She thought about it for a second, and finally she said, ‘Halle Blueberries!’ Blueberries are her favorite fruit.” Berry laughs, still tickled. “I’m just glad she didn’t say ‘Halle Blackberry.’”
The Bond star mentions that all the fuss about celebrity kids is what she wants to avoid:
I worry that this whole insatiable appetite for celebrity children will somehow adversely affect Nahla. I don’t think it’s fair, and I don’t think it’s safe. How will she grow up, having been objectified like this for most of her whole young life? Already they write things about her: Oh, she looks like this; oh, she looks like that. But nobody knows her. They just pick her apart on a very superficial level. How will I be able to help her keep that in perspective in this town?”
See some other highlights as well:
On the “Oscar curse”: “Everybody talks about the Oscar curse. People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that’s partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day. I thought, If I’m going down, I’m going down taking chances and daring to risk. Hence…Catwoman.”
On her appreciation of the female body: “I love the naked female form…. I just feel like that’s the most empowered position you can be in… That comes with age. I’ve been slowly getting there. If the world wouldn’t persecute me, I’d take nude pictures every day of the week.”
The September 2010 issue of Vogue is on newsstands August 24. But you can read and see more right now at Vogue.com!
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I can’t wait to get this issue!!!!!!!