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"Sure, her parents are world-renowned actors, but when it comes to accessories, sixteenyear- old Ireland Baldwin looks to another icon of the silver screen. \"I went to a party\u2014 that was not a costume party at all\u2014and wore Mickey Mouse ears,\" she says. \"Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.\" As the daughter of funnyman Alec Baldwin and femme fatale Kim Basinger, charm and wit come naturally to this six-foot-one teen.\n\nIreland received her unconventional name when her then-pregnant mother was conjuring up trips she wanted to take with her daughter. The unusual moniker is fitting, considering Ireland\u2014\"Dublin\" to her friends\u2014is not one for conservative fare, especially when it comes to fashion. \"There are Katy Perry\u2013in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it\u2014I want it!\" she muses. \"My mom will always talk me down.\" When dessert-as-couture is not an option, she plunders her parents' closets. \"I don't really borrow from them\u2014I steal,\" she says. \"My dad is very fond of his Massapequa High School sweatshirt, which I've had for three years now. He definitely wants that back.\"\n\nClothes aren't the only things passing through the generations. This skilled dancer and ercise devotee (after all, her stepmom, Hilaria Baldwin, is, as Ireland puts it, a \"yoga guru\") has inherited the acting gene. \"When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress,\" she admits. \"I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.' Recently I gave in and realized it's something I want to work toward.\" Being a film fanatic has no doubt prepared her for stepping in front of the camera. \"My dad and I have seen every horror movie ever made,\" she says. \"My mom and I love watching romantic films and dancing and singing in the kitchen. Our neighbors love us for sure.\"\n\nRefreshingly, growing up among Hollywood's A-listers has not completely rid Ireland of the ability to be starstruck. \"'I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco,\" she says. Who could blame her?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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