Who ever thought that if Charlize Theron teenager was not popular and far to be mentioned as beautiful such as present. The teenage girl who leaves the farm in South Africa and has been through quest from fashion model, ballerina then became an actress which was not her purpose at beginning, was never fit in during her high school days.
“I didn’t have a high school boyfriend,” she confesses. “I wore really nerdy glasses because I was blind as could be and the boys didn’t like [me], I didn’t have any boyfriends, but lots of crushes.”
“But there was this guy, Johan Botha,” she says to Vogue, “Who I was obsessed with. Obsessed! There was a school dance coming up, and I told my mom I needed a dress, and I bought this amazing crushed-velvet burgundy dress—long-sleeved, off-the-shoulder, at Woolworth’s. And then Thursday came, and Friday came, and he did not ask me to the dance. And I had to call my mom to come get me.
“Johan Botha! I haven’t thought about him in so long. He was a really good cyclist. I think I spoke five words to him. I would lie in my bed and listen to those heartbreak eighties songs and think it was the end of the world that this boy did not know I existed.”
“I wasn’t in the popular crowd. There was a really popular girl at school and I was obsessed with her. I mean you would go to jail for that stuff today,” Theron says with a laugh. “I was in tears one day because I couldn’t sit next to her.”
Being bullied also her daily meal at high school, likely because of her nerdy glasses.
“I actually got a lot of the mean girl stuff from the ages of 7 to 12. I was pretty much a mess in primary school,” she admits. “But I got that out of my system by the time I got to high school and was more immune to all of that stuff.”
A week or so later, Johan Botha was located via e-mail. He’s an artist, living in Johannesburg, still riding his bicycle, and singing and playing guitar in a band called Billy Buckle.
“Haha, yes we were in school together,” Botha writes of Theron. “If you interview her again, you may tell her that the crush was definitely mutual, for what it’s worth.
“Oh, and she wore glasses at the time, which I thought was very cute.”
Speaking about fame and beauty, in Snow White and Huntsman, in which Theron plays Ravenna, the Evil Queen who is trying to steal beauty and kill Snow White, who played by Kristen Stewart, the famous and beautiful brooding Twilight. Young Adult star has her own opinion about Stewart.
“She just turned 21,” Theron says of Stewart. “She’s a child. When I think about myself at 21, I had just done The Devil’s Advocate, and Keanu [Reeves] had paparazzi following him and Al Pacino said this thing to me: ‘If I knew that my life would be under this kind of scrutiny, I would have never become an actor.’ ” And I thought, Wow. I couldn’t comprehend it.
“And Kristen is just living this to the max and still has a sense of humor about it. There’s this really lovely quality about her that just doesn’t give a fuck. A lot of people say they don’t, but then they go home and cry and pop a Xanax. Kristen actually doesn’t give a fuck. That’s what’s so refreshing about her.
“I’m looking forward to killing her and taking her beauty,” Theron says. “That’s what happens, right?”
Skip talking about beauty and fame, about her mother who gave and taught her all.
Several years ago, she rented a private plane with friends and flew around the country, visiting places where her mother, Gerda, grew up. “That was pretty magical,” Theron says. “We spent, like, a month, my mom educating me about her life and family and heritage. That was really, really moving.”
Theron lives not far from Gerda, speaks to her every day, and remains protective of her mother’s privacy; as Charlize became a household name, the attention revived a harrowing, now decades-old, family trauma when her mother shot and killed Theron’s father in self-defense. “She gets tossed into that darkness, and it’s not who she is at all,” Theron says. “She is not that person. She has a love for life. She is very, very private. . . . It’s hard when you have a child who decides to do something that you know will throw your whole life out there.”
Her love of dogs, make her so gentle and caring with a pit bull named Blue and a Border-terrier puppy named Berkeley, her cooking skill that can be compared with Mrs.Doubtfire. Is she ever eager to have children on her own?
“I do want to have kids, yeah,” she says. “I always have. I’ve never had a rush for it, a moment where I really wanted to do it. I don’t have a panic about it.”
Lots of kids? “I don’t think about the amount so much. You have to be aware of what you can give. I don’t know where I’m going to be in five years. I might be in a place where I’m like, ‘Yeah! Six!’ ”
Theron laughs. “I don’t think it will ever be that,” she says.
Enjoy the photos of Charlize Theron on Vogue
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