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" \n Scarlett Johansson is the kind of chick you can&amp;#039;t blame your boyfriend for having a crush on. Everything about her\u2014 from the pinup girl platinum locks, to the bombshell body, to the deep, throaty voice\u2014exudes sexiness. But it&amp;#039;s more than her timeless beauty and out-of-the-ordinary talent that makes her the ideal cover girl for Cosmo&amp;#039;s 40th birthday issue: It&amp;#039;s also her confidence and sophistication, which at times make her seem a lot older than she is (only 20!). Scarlett&amp;#039;s maturity no doubt has something to do with the fact that she&amp;#039;s been acting professionally since she was 8 years old. She first caught our eye in 1998, when after losing the role in The Parent Trap to Lindsay Lohan, she was cast as a traumatized teen in The Horse Whisperer. After that, she continued to sidestep the teen-flick pigeonhole, opting instead to play more complex characters. The instinct paid off: Her performances in Girl With a Pearl Earring, Lost in Translation, and A Love Song for Bobby Long all earned her Golden Globe nominations. This year, the actress has two polar-opposite flicks out: the sci-fi thriller The Island (released last summer), in which she plays a human clone, and the period comedy A Good Woman (an adaptation of an Oscar Wilde play), in theaters this month. Scarlett&amp;#039;s made some pretty darn good choices in her love life too. She&amp;#039;s reportedly been linked with some of the hottest actors in Hollywood, including Jared Leto and, most recently, Josh Hartnett. But it hasn&amp;#039;t all been wine and roses. Over lunch, the star dished to Cosmo about her worst relationship ever, the man she would like to ream out, and her buried little secret.\u2026   Cosmo: You&amp;#039;ve pulled off some mature roles in the last few years. Why do you think you&amp;#039;re so convincing as an adult? Scarlett: I was only 17 when I did Lost in Translation, but I felt grown up. I had just graduated from high school and had decided to continue to do what I&amp;#039;ve always wanted to do\u2014make movies. C: Why did you back out of Mission: Impossible 3?  S: We had contractual differences. It&amp;#039;s a shame, because I rehearsed with Tom Cruise for a long time and I loved working with him. He&amp;#039;s a sweetheart. I went to one of the Scientology centers with him. I&amp;#039;ve worked with a lot of Scientologists, so I know a bit about it. [Tom] is really enthusiastic about it, and when you&amp;#039;re working with someone, you want to see what makes them tick.  C: Where do you call home?  S: I bought a house in L.A., but I got lonely and sold it and moved into the Chateau Marmont. Then I got a fish, because I was lonely there. He was a Japanese fighting fish named Cassius. I cleaned his water every three days, but somebody took care of him for a week and they let his water get dirty. He got a skin disease and died. I was mortified. I dug a giant hole in the garden at the Chateau Marmont and buried him. I know it was just a fish, but somehow he became a good friend of mine.  C: And now you have Maggie, a Chihuahua?  S: Yeah, she&amp;#039;s this little bitty thing. The first three days, she didn&amp;#039;t make a sound. Then the fourth day, she started barking incessantly. It was irritating, so I taught her not to bark. You spray them in the butt with a water bottle. It doesn&amp;#039;t hurt.  C: Hmm\u2026maybe that technique could work on guys too.  S: I bet it would work. Right in the ass. That would get them to stop whining.  C: Speaking of guys, how old were you when you had your first real boyfriend?  S: Fourteen. I fell in love with him. You go through puberty and feel like there&amp;#039;s nobody in the world who&amp;#039;s ever going to understand you. Then you meet this other person and you&amp;#039;re connecting with them and exploring things you&amp;#039;ve never explored before. You never have that again. There&amp;#039;s a codependence in having a boyfriend at 14. [You feel like] &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m gonna marry you and have your children!&amp;quot; It was a lovely relationship and we&amp;#039;re still friends, but I don&amp;#039;t ever want to feel that codependent again.  C: Do you have a boyfriend?  S: I don&amp;#039;t want to talk about my personal life. I&amp;#039;ve never said I was dating anybody, but people make things up and start following you around anyway. I don&amp;#039;t think it&amp;#039;s anybody&amp;#039;s business, unless I&amp;#039;m engaged. Then I&amp;#039;d feel confident talking about a relationship.  C: Is it hard to see yourself in all the tabloids?  S: Well, it&amp;#039;s usually like, &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s got a tummy bulge! She&amp;#039;s got sagging saddlebags!&amp;quot; And [the body part] is circled in red and there&amp;#039;s an arrow pointing to it that reads &amp;quot;Saddlebags!&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s mortifying. How can you ignore that?  C: Do you feel pressure to be thin when you see all these other actresses shrinking?  S: No. The only pressure I ever feel is if I look in the mirror and don&amp;#039;t like what I see. I&amp;#039;m like &amp;quot;You could start jogging more.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m never going to look at a picture of Uma Thurman and think I can have her body. It&amp;#039;s not what I&amp;#039;m supposed to look like. I once heard that women dress for women\u2014not for men\u2014and I think that has some truth to it. Men, what do they know? They don&amp;#039;t know if you gain or lose five pounds. They&amp;#039;re oblivious to those kinds of things. A lot of men will say &amp;quot;I like you just as you are.&amp;quot; And you&amp;#039;re like &amp;quot;But I&amp;#039;m bloated!&amp;quot; If they&amp;#039;re attracted to you, they&amp;#039;re attracted to you.  C: What&amp;#039;s one kind of man you now stay away from?  S: I&amp;#039;ve had the problem of dating a cocaine addict. It was horrible. I won&amp;#039;t allow myself to get involved with somebody like that again because you&amp;#039;re never as important as the drug. You can&amp;#039;t trust them, and you never Know where they are. They lie. Every time they blow their nose, you&amp;#039;re like, hmm.  C : What, in your opinion, is the major difference between men and women? S: Men have to spread their seed, even if they&amp;#039;re not that attracted to somebody. If they feel the urge or if they have to prove something to themselves, they&amp;#039;ll sleep with anyone. [Women are more discriminating] because we are receiving something. You have to let someone inside of you, so it&amp;#039;s more invasive. C: It&amp;#039;s been reported that you are very close to your mom. Was she the first person you told when you lost your virginity?  S: No. I waited to tell her, and when I finally told her, she cried. She was like &amp;quot;Oh, God! I really hope that you used protection.&amp;quot; I was like &amp;quot;Yeah.&amp;quot; My mom has always told me, &amp;quot;I feel so bad for your generation. When we were growing up, there was a sexual freedom that will never exist again.&amp;quot; AIDS forces you to think about someone&amp;#039;s sexual past, which you really don&amp;#039;t want to be thinking about when you&amp;#039;re sleeping with someone. You know, we&amp;#039;re supposed to be liberated in this country, but if our president had his way, we wouldn&amp;#039;t be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children, and women wouldn&amp;#039;t be able to have abortions.  C: If President Bush were here, what would you say to him? S: Shame on you. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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