Jennifer Connelly covers the November issue of More magazine. I know she’s not big gossip material, but she’s so lovely and composed. You never hear any diva nonsense from Jennifer, and she doesn’t call the paparazzi. She simply goes to work and lives her live with the dead-sexy Paul Bettany. This cover is beautiful, and Jennifer isn’t overly airbrushed, which is nice because she’s 44 and looks realistic for that age. But damn, is she ever beautiful? I used to have a major girlcrush on her during the Labyrinth days.
These are only a few interview excerpts, but they’re notable. For one thing, Jennifer puts the smackdown on the “sad” obsession with youth. She wants to look her age and refuses to ever go under the knife. There’s also the tragically romantic love story of how she and Paul first got together. They were friends, and he realized her loved her on 9/11 when he was afraid she was dead. Take it away, Vision:
Jennifer’s feelings on plastic surgery: “We equate beauty for women with youth, and that’s sad. It’s a shame it’s so hard for so many of us to appreciate the beauty of an older woman and to accept it in ourselves. I don’t want to erase my history on my face.”
Paul Bettany’s story: On September 11, 2001, the actor Paul Bettany was buying groceries in a Tuscan hill town when he noticed a crowd around a television in a cafe. The group was too quiet to be soccer fans. He joined it in time to see United Airlines Flight 175 hit the World Trade Center. For the next two days, he found himself dialing and redialing a friend who lived with her son in downtown Manhattan, the actress Jennifer Connelly. She and Bettany weren’t romantically involved, but after working together in the true-life drama A Beautiful Mind, they’d kept in touch. At about hour 48, he asked himself why he was so desperate to reach her. “It hit me, like, Ohhh, no,” Bettany recalls in his fine-sandpaper voice. “I was bitten.” In a flash he knew that if Connelly was alive, he was going to marry her. On January 1, 2003, he did.
[From More]
Oh, I’ll bet Bettany was frantic with worry. In those first days after the Twin Towers fell in New York City, no one could reach anyone. The entire situation was a catastrophe, and that was the very moment when Bettany decided he couldn’t live without Jennifer. I love this couple so much.
Photos courtesy of More & WENN
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