Rihanna is stunning for her spread in Vanity Fair magazine.
The 27-year-old Bajan music star gets really personal and candid in the interview. Her photos were shot by Annie Leibovitz.
On not being as wild as the media portrays:
I honestly think how much fun it would be to live my reputation. People
have this image of how wild and crazy I am, and I’m not everything they
think of me. The reality is that the fame, the rumors—this picture
means this, another picture means that—it really freaks me out. It made
me back away from even wanting to attempt to date. It’s become second
nature for me to just close that door and just be O.K. with that. I’m
always concerned about whether people have good or bad intentions.
On dating Chris Brown: I
was that girl who felt that as much pain as this relationship is, maybe
some people are built stronger than others. Maybe I’m one of those
people built to handle shit like this. Maybe I’m the person who’s almost
the guardian angel to this person, to be there when they’re not strong
enough, when they’re not understanding the world, when they just need
someone to encourage them in a positive way and say the right thing.
On thinking she could change him:
A hundred percent. I was very protective of him. I felt that people
didn’t understand him. Even after … But you know, you realize after a
while that in that situation you’re the enemy. You want the best for
them, but if you remind them of their failures, or if you remind them of
bad moments in their life, or even if you say I’m willing to put up
with something, they think less of you—because they know you don’t
deserve what they’re going to give. And if you put up with it, maybe you
are agreeing that you [deserve] this, and that’s when I finally had to
say, ‘Uh-oh, I was stupid thinking I was built for this.’ Sometimes you
just have to walk away. I don’t hate him. I will care about him until
the day I die. We’re not friends, but it’s not like we’re enemies. We
don’t have much of a relationship now.
On having sex for fun: If I wanted to I would completely do that. I
am going to do what makes me feel happy, what I feel like doing. But
that would be empty for me; that to me is a hollow move. I would wake up
the next day feeling like shit.
On dating rumours: This
industry creates stories and environments that can make you
uncomfortable even being friends with someone. If you see me sitting
next to someone, or standing next to someone, what, I’m not allowed to
do that? I’m like, are you serious? Do you think it’s going to stop me
from having a friend?” But, she adds, “I’m the worst. I see a rumor and
I’m not calling [them] back. I’ve had to be so conscious about
people—what they say and why people want to be with me, why people want
to sleep with me…. It makes me very guarded and protective. I learned
the hard way.
On her kind of man:
I always see the best in people. I hope for the best, and I always look
for that little bit of good, that potential, and I wait for it to
blossom. You want them to feel good being a man, but now men are afraid
to be men. They think being a real man is actually being a pussy, that
if you take a chair out for a lady, or you’re nice or even affectionate
to your girl in front of your boys, you’re less of a man. It’s so sick.
They won’t be a gentleman because that makes them appear soft. That’s
what we’re dealing with now, a hundred percent, and girls are settling
for that, but I won’t. I will wait forever if I have to … but that’s
O.K. You have to be screwed over enough times to know, but now I’m
hoping for more than these guys can actually give.
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