STYLE InTERVIEW
She’s one of Italy’s most celebrated stars and one of the world’s most beautiful women. Style on Sunday speaks to icon Monica Bellucci.
Italian Belle Model, presenter and award-winning actress. Typifying the beauty of a Mediterranean belle, Monica Bellucci started her career hoping to become a lawyer, before modelling drew her in full time. Married to actor Vincent Cassel and mum to five-year-old Deva, she is also the face of Dior and cites that as one of the many highlights of her eclectic career. How would you describe yourself? I am audacious, I wouldn’t be in this line of work otherwise! But when you are daring in a film, it’s because you are playing a part. It’s not entirely us, it’s a little bit us, but not completely.
Name a highlight of your career so far. When the House of Dior contacted me, I had just turned 40 and I just had my daughter. It was a very special time in my life, the happiest. When I was 20, I never could have imagined that the happiest time of my life would be at 40! When you are 20 years old and you think of being 40 years old, it seems so far away. But in reality, time goes by very quickly. But it is true that, for me, 40 was a very important age. I think that when a woman becomes a mother, it’s as if she crosses a bridge, she enters into a new world, one of maturity and responsibility, but it is also a way to discover more about yourself.
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