Britney Spears Is A Glamour Girl

Britney Spears opens up about the past year In January's Glamour magazine- "it has been a hell of a year for me," she says - her new album Circus and her future.

Recording Circus - which drops Tuesday on her 27th birthday - "has helped take my mind off certain things," she says. "For me, my music is therapy."

The star - who made her first live performance Wednesday in Germany since her 2007 MTV Video Music Awards
disaster - is feelin' the love these days.

"When I received the awards and the audience stood for me, it showed me how much love is out there," says Spears, who swept the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.

Britney, who was notorious for hitting Hollywood hot spots with no underwear for awhile, says her life has become a lot calmer these days.

"I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people," the singer tells Glamour. "I love my home and staying in my bed and watching Dancing With the Stars or reading a Danielle Steel novel. I'm kind of boring."

On her post-babies body, Spears says, "My body... completely changed [after giving birth], and I have had to work hard at getting it back."

Britney Spears - Glamour Magazine

Nicole Kidman Glamour in Blue

Nicole Kidman Does Glamour Magazine, here's the interview highlights:

On her happiness:
‘Happy’ isn’t an all-encompassing-enough word. I’m in a place of gratitude and humility. I don’t take any of it for granted. I touch wood every day. The journey of life - we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.”

On who Sunday looks like:
Keith! It’s fine by me, having a little Keith-ette. When he goes away, I can look at her and see him.

On the birth of Sunday:
Keith was my rock during childbirth. I’d heard horror stories of 40 hours of labor, and I was sure that would be me, but I had a very easy labor. And through it all, Keith’s eyes gave me such strength.

On how Connor and Isabella are reacting to their new sibling:
They’re very adoring of her. They’re used to having a little one around, because of Suri [Cruise’s daughter with Katie Holmes]. Bella is very maternal. Connor would like one of us to have a boy. He wants that boy. [Pauses.] Katie…? [Laughs.]

On Keith’s alcohol addiction:
It brought us to our knees.… Addiction is very prevalent in our society, and it can be shattering to both people in the relationship. But working through it together was an extraordinary path. It’s very easy for a couple to experience joy together. But when you experience pain together, it can lead to such depth and such union. That is when you fuse.… As a couple, we are in a place of deep gratefulness. The experience gave us deep honesty - and greater love.”

On being married to Tom Cruise:
I felt I became a star only by association. I didn’t think [the early movies] were very good, which is why I would always cower in the background. I thought, I don’t deserve to be here. We would go to the Oscars and I would think, I’m here to support him. I felt it was my job to put on a beautiful dress and be seen and not heard.”

On the divorce:
I went six years alone. I’m not saying it’s for everyone, but it’s better to be alone than in a lousy relationship. Work was my escape. I was existing more strongly in my creative world than in my own world… [I learned] how to stand on my own two feet. I had to find my own identity, and my own reason for being here, and it couldn’t be because of another person.”

Nicole Kidman - Glamour Magazine December 2008

Jessica Simpson - Glamour Magazine Russia

Jessica Simpson is on the cover of russian issue of Glamour Magazine (August 2008)

Jessica Simpson - Glamour Magazine Russia

Mariah Carey Does Glamour Magazine November 2007

Mariah Carey is the cover girl for the next issue of Glamour magazine, gearing up to promote her new fragrance and album.

Mariah looks absolutely amazing in her Glamour photos, and she talks about some issues that everyone is wondering about. Like who is she dating and would she ever marry again. Mariah says she doesn’t even know what dating is and that she would like to marry someone if, she knew the person loved the real her or if she wanted to marry again.

Mariah Carey Glamour Magazine November 2007

Claudia Schiffer: The supermodel is dead,

The age of the supermodel is over, according to Claudia Schiffer.

The 37-year-old beauty believes models can no longer achieve the kind of global celebrity she, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford enjoyed in the 1990s.

These days, singers and actresses are as likely to grace the covers of glossy magazines, preventing models from reaching star status, Miss Schiffer told an interviewer in her native Germany.

"In order to become a supermodel one must be on all the covers all over the world at the same time so that people can recognise the girls.

"That is, for now, not possible, not least because the advertising industry is very much taken nowadays by popstars and actresses. Supermodels like we once were don't exist any more."

There are so many beautiful models around, it is almost impossible for a handful to become real celebrities, Miss Schiffer added in the magazine Fivetonine.

The model, who has a home in Suffolk-added: "I can remember when I needed four bodyguards to get backstage from a Chanel show just to my car. And that wasn't only me. It just isn't like this any more."

Miss Schiffer believes the Brazilian Gisele Bundchen is one of the few women to have supermodel status today.

"Her face is well known, her name is recognised - but no other girl occurs to me that people in the street would recognise," she said.

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Claudia Schiffer - Glamour - September 2007

Jessica Biel Glamour Magazine September 2007

Actress Jessica Biel is featured on the September 2007 cover of Britain’s Glamour Magazine.