03 - Youth (Part 2)
What Book Got Rebecca Hooked?
Rebecca Romijn: Bridge to Terebithia is about two kids, a boy and a girl who become the best of friends. Out of their powerful friendship, and even more powerful imagination, Terebithia is formed. It is a fantasy world that is so exciting, they almost forget the real world exists.
Forget the movie — there's nothing that could possibly be better than this book...
More information: http://www.firstbook.org
FHM: Were you ever in trouble as a kid?
Rebecca Romijn: No. I was a goody two shoes - kind of geeky. But when I was in high school I was friends with the kids who played pranks. One year, they brought thousands of crickets and let them loose in the hallway. Another time they kidnapped a pig and let it loose in school. I was the person who would go with them... but never actually did the deed.
FHM: Were you pestered by boys wanting to "date" you?
Rebecca Romijn: I was very insecure. I was tall and skinny, and I was very self-conscious of my body. I was a late starter in the b***s department - I was as flat as a board until I was about 15 - then one summer I was a C-cup. Huge. Now they're getting smaller again, which bums me out.
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FHM: Your TV debut in Friends saw you playing a slob, whose unkempt apartment scared the bejesus out of Ross. Ever live with anyone that untidy?
Rebecca Romijn: Yeah, me - I was like that! My dad used to take pictures of my bedroom and use them to blackmail me. One time, I stole a chameleon - a live one - from my sister. I hid it in my closet... and forgot about it. I found it in there - this tiny shrivelled thing - a couple of months later. Isn't that horrible?
Original article: FHM 03/1999
Maxim: We understand you were an enthusiastic child nudist. That ture?
Rebecca Romijn: Oh, I just didn't like to wear a lot of clothes when I was a kid. My family was a bunch of Berkeley hippies-except we really didn't have any money. When people ask my mom is she was a hippie, she always says, "I couldn't afford the outfits." So we shopped at Value Village, and she made the granola and baked that weird healthy bread. All very wholesome.
Maxim: At what point did you decide that clothes were a good idea?
Rebecca Romijn: When I started school. I was pretty naked until I was about six or seven.
Maxim: Could I stop and say I love the phrase "pretty naked"? Did the rest of your family have nudist tendencies, too?
Rebecca Romijn: Are you kidding me? Nudism runs rampant in my family.
Maxim: So, what, you would eat dinner nude?
Rebecca Romijn: No, but when my high school dates used to pick me up, Dad would open the front door completely
naked.
Original article: Maxim
Whatever spawned it, Rebecca Romijn's flair for fashion was nurtured on the cheap. "My parents didn't have any money when I was really little," she says, "so we had to shop at Value Village." The product of a Bohemian Berkeley upbringing, Romijn (pronounced Ro-MAIN) showed her free spirit at the age of 5, when she packed her own bags for a family camping trip to a California state park. Recalls her mother, Elizabeth, a teacher who was divorced from Rebecca's Dutch father, Jaap, a custom furniture builder, in 1979: "One night when we were cooking over the campfire, she came out wearing a little crocheted dress, with a bunch of makeup and jewelry on!" When she turned 18, Romijn had enough confidence to hop a plane to Paris and begin a modeling career. Now 24 (in 1997, RRF), she has settled in L.A. with actor-boyfriend John Stamos and is best known for her regular appearances in the Victoria's Secret catalog. These days, Romijn describes her look as "a mix: I still shop at thrift stores -- and at Barneys." But there's one big difference. "Now," she says, "I know who all
the designers are."
Original article: People Online
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