5 - Rebecca's Opinion
About to vacate their current five-bedroom Malibu Mountain house, originally John's, Romijn admits she had never been comfortable there. "I used to have nightmares about living in a house so big I couldn't hear somebody screaming on the other side of it, and now I do, and it's kind of creepy for me," she says. Earlier in their marriage, to accomodate both their tastes, they purchased land in Beverly Hills and spent a year and a half designing a smaller house. But last year, with only one month to go before they were
scheduled to break ground, she saw the ranch - and begged John to come take a look. "It was the first place in Southern California that made me feel like I was home. I was afraid to tell him. He said, 'You're nuts. You're insane." He was so mad at me." Luckily he loved it too. "All he said afterward was, 'Can I plant a vegetable garden there?'
Now, with their Beverly Hills property on the market, they plan to move into the former brothel but eventually make it a guest house. They'll build an adjoining ranch house to live in, as well as a barn for entertaining. "I love eccentric people. Most of my friends are out-there. Wacky," she says. "We always have 10 to 15 people staying over every weekend. John loves barbecuing and cooking. I just hang out and drink wine with them - and laugh." Next they plan to raise pygmy goats ("Don't ask," she says) and possibly
children - two or three. "We're not trying" she declares. Beyond that, Romijn - whose current good fortune seems boundless - is loathe to predict much else. In the future, "I just want to be on my ranch, with my kids, being kind of the dirtball that I am with my big truck," she says. Wooden planks, painted blue with white lettering, are piled high in the garden, part of an old sign that used to stand outside Disneyland. Rebecca and John bought it at an internet auction to remind them of their first date.
Original article: Glamour 10/01 & Sunday Magazine April 2003
Rebecca Romijn says she's haunted by the sexual energy of two dead Hollywood hunks at her posh home in
Calabasas, Cal. The leggy "X-Men" temptress tells the November issue of Jane that the rugged cowboy star Randolph Scott used to own the place and that Cary Grant - long rumored to be Scott's secret gay lover - virtually lived there with him. "We found pictures of the two of them cooking in a kitchen - and we think it was here. It was a little gay love nest!" she squeals. And before Scott and Grant, "This used to be a whorehouse," Rebecca says. "There's a lotta sexual energy here."
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