Photographed by Michael Di Battista
On love and being alone: “Look, I don’t love being
alone. I don’t. I can’t beat myself up for that. What I have to do is
figure out why I don’t like it. Why am I not OK being alone? And can I
ever be OK facing that? In the past, love for me has always meant
forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don’t
try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long
time. But where I am now, what I’ve been through, there are no rules.
There are just lots of ways it can turn out instead of just one. There
are so many different kinds of happiness, not just the one you learned
about when you were five years old.”
On who she is really is: “It’s funny when people say
‘Jenny from the block isn’t real’ or ‘You’ve already done that.’ I
keep doing it because that’s who I am. I love where I grew up and it’s
such a part of who I am.”
On aging in Hollywood: “The turning point was a
couple years ago, when the September issue of women’s magazines had
cover girls that were all over 40 – Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts,
me. It was hard not to be happy. That says something about our
society. People who used to believe their life – or at least their life
as a performer – was over at 28 or some ungodly age! God, when I think
of myself back then, I had no idea who I was. I think I’m barely
getting that under control now.”
On her life now: “You get to a point in life where it suddenly occurs to you that you
don’t need all the things you once thought you did—that it’s really,
well, convoluted,” she tells writer Nancy Hass in the April InStyle,
on newsstands Friday. “My life feels overblown sometimes, and I don’t
want it to be. I want it to be streamlined. So I’m living a much more
unscripted life now than I have in a long time.”
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