Drew has graced Marie Claire UK September issue magazine cover, and she is looking radiant. I think this one is my favorite To view the cover and the photoshoot images, click on the picture to the left.

Sexy, super-stylish and seriously talented – could our September cover star Drew Barrymore be any more perfect? We caught up with Hollywood’s bohemian darling for a revealingly honest, no-holds-barred chat, about romance, relationships and her oh-so-amazing career.

‘It was never a grand plan,’ says the unlikely Hollywood heavyweight – who has notched up an amazing career as an actress, started her own production company and now turned her hand to directing – of her epic achievements.

‘I just have all these things I want to do – things that beautifully and vividly encompass me – but I never sat down and worked it out’.

On her love life, Drew remains decidedly coy. She’ll neither confirm nor deny whether she and on/off boyfriend Justin Long are dating – ‘a little mystery never hurt anyone,’ – but she talks like a single woman looking for answers. ‘I’m happy to say that, at 35 years old, I feel I know less than ever,’ she told us with a smile.

But she does, however, maintain that technology has ruined romance. ‘I just don’t like this compulsive, instantaneous, over-information, lack-of-privacy, weirdo aspect of the world,’ she revealed.

‘If you meet someone they already know everything. What about showing up on a date and saying, ‘What do you do for a living? Who are your friends?’

Above everything, Drew says that she just wants to be present and to really understand what makes her happy. ‘I have absolutely nothing to complain about,’ she says.

‘I’m always trying to educate myself about the world or do philanthropic things or drop everything if someone I care about needs me. Do I always manage to get the balance right? Fuck no, but I’m trying.’

Drew is on the cover of the August edition of Nylon, and I have got to say, she looks amazing! To view the cover and photo shoot images, click on the cover to the left. I will be adding scans as soon as I can get my scanner to work. For now, enjoy this article!

Drew Barrymore is everyone’s golden girl, and not just because of her amazing blonde hair. The actress and producer made a string of movies we can watch on 24-hour repeat (Never Been Kissed, Whip It, Grey Gardens…), and she still has time to star in the Cover Girl commercials.

Our beauty director, Holly Siegel, sat down with Drew in Los Angeles…

On Being Perfect
“You have to not pretend to be perfect, because that’s not only boring as fuck, but it’s just not real…So I feel so liberated in that way. I just really want to be true to myself. That’s essential in life. I would never be able to put on a charade. I would totally fuck it up.”

On her In-Between Period
“I had a big gap in my life where I wasn’t allowed to work at all because no one would hire me, which was great because I think you need that humility. You have to have everything taken away, or you have to have a major reality check, so that you always appreciate what you have.”

On Simulating Phone Sex in her New Movie, Going the Distance.
“You know, phone sex going awry is just a funny concept to me and I thought, This is going to be one of those scenes where we have to go balls out, and if it doesn’t work, it’s going to be editing room floor crap.”

So Drew, where’d you get your jeans?
“I never have time for shopping… I’ve been wearing the same fucking pair of jeans for 10 years.”

I want to apologize first with my long absence from the site. I just got back from being in Europe for a month, and didn’t have much time to get online! Luckily there was not much news that we missed out on though! I do have some good news for you today. Drew is Elle’s cover girl for August! I personally love this photoshoot, Drew looks stunning. Scans will be added from the magazine soon, but here is a sneak peak of the article thanks to Elle.com:

On taking stock of where she is now: “For three years straight, I’ve been burning the candle at both ends, and as of last December, I just didn’t have anything left. I’ve been so aggressive about living life to the fullest and being plugged into everything, but now I’ve ripped the plug out of the wall and put it on the floor for a while. I’m thinking about the same things as when I was 15, about spirituality and who I am, who I want to be. It’s cocoon, pupa, larva, and fuck, I’m reborn!”

On the media’s misconceptions of her: “I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don’t accomplish anything. That’s not me at all.”

On being single: “If you’re 35 and single and it’s a choice, it feels fine. So I didn’t settle with the wrong person yet. Big deal!”

On her upcoming role in Going the Distance: “I like that it’s not a traditional romantic comedy, with the story line of, ‘Oh, I slept with this guy, but when I woke up, I found out he’s the CEO of my company, and we’re going to live happily ever after once we go through all these crazy perils. I talk shit with my girlfriends. And it can get dirty.”

On why she’s not afraid to get older: “I don’t want to be vain or fearful, and I don’t think I’ll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if I want to do something, I will. From my perspective, there’s no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you’re lucky! The alternative is death.”

On child stardom: “I was raised in unique and trying environments, but they were also amazing platforms for me to have an extraordinary life. Going through hell as a kid made me sensitive to what others in this world go through too.”

Gallery Links:
Magazines > Elle – August 2010

Drew is featured in the October issue of Nylon Magazine and thanks to the awesome Twista for donating scans of this to us. Enjoy and the outtakes will be added as soon as possible.

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003: Nylon Magazine – October 2009

Drew was featured on the cover of last week’s issue of Parade Magazine. Popsugar brings us some outtakes from her cover shoot (now available in the gallery) and some exerts from the interview. Enjoy!

What she learned from growing up in Hollywood: “I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days. At the end of my movie, there’s honesty. There’s truth. There’s peace. What tomorrow will bring is still in question. There is a joy that’s earned by failure or triumph. All those things add up to teach us, if we are open to it.”

Where her relationship stands with her mother: “I believe she will see the film [Whip It]. I believe she does feel pride in me. I used to pull a lot emotionally from all the stuff with my family, but I did not do this movie to cleanse myself of the mother/daughter debacle that happened in my life. I have been much more objective about my childhood and my relationship with my mother in these last few years.”

Her outlook on happiness: “It feels as if I’m willing myself to be happy. I do feel as if I am thrusting myself forward all the time. Nancy, who runs my production company and is my favorite person I’ve met in my life so far, had on her refrigerator the sign ‘HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE.’ When I first saw it, I thought, ‘That is so simple and yet complex and wise.”

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004: Set 089 – Parade Magazine

The first outtake from Drew’s cover shoot for Instyle Magazine has been released and is now available in our gallery. Enjoy and don’t forget to pick up your copy of the magazine as Drew will be gracing the cover!

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006: Set 086 – Instyle Magazine

UPDATE! Five more fabulous outtakes have been added to the gallery, click on the previews below to see them all!

As we were informed when Drew attended the Jay Leno show, Drew will be on the cover of the next issue of Instyle Magazine (we’ll bring you scans as soon as possible!). An exert of an article that tells us what she will talk about in the magazine and a photo of the cover can be found below!

The actress says she has an “okay” relationship with her father — but she doesn’t see eye-to-eye with her mother, Jaid.
“I am okay with my dad, but my mom and I have yet to work it out,” Barrymore, 34, tells the October issue of InStyle, out Friday. “I don’t talk about it because … how do you talk about something you’re confused about?”

Barrymore — who makes her directorial debut with new movie Whip It! — also hinted at her plans to “leave” Hollywood behind and travel the world.

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