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" Seventeen: Where did you grow up? India de Beaufort: I grew up in Surbiton, England which is a lovely little suburban town outside Kingston. 17: Were you a good student? IDB: School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn&amp;#039;t so fun. I still pulled through though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature, anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in. 17: Did you work any jobs while you were in school? IDB: I had a million jobs! I had a paper route when I was 11 and when I was 13, I got a job as a shampoo girl in a hair salon. When I was 16, I worked for Ted Baker as a shop assistant. And all this time I was also on a children&amp;#039;s TV show. 17: In your high school yearbook, did you have a quote? IDB: The only thing I remember about my high school yearbook is that I was in charge of drawing pictures of the staff. I got in trouble because one of my favorite teacher&amp;#039;s comments was &amp;quot;Which bugger opened the window?&amp;quot;. I drew a caricature of her and put that in the drawing and I got in trouble! 17: Were there any trends that were popular when you were in high school that looking back you realize were terrible? IDB: Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I&amp;#039;d also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms. 17: What did you want to be when you grew up? IDB: I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress. My first gig was when I was seven and was in a music video. Then, I started getting spots on children&amp;#039;s shows. When I was 14, I ended up on a show where I got to sing and act. It just sort of went on from there! 17: What&amp;#039;s the craziest thing you&amp;#039;ve ever done to get a guy to notice you? IDB: Oh dear. I think kiss another guy! I had the hugest crush on this boy when I was 13. He was the popular guy in school and I, well, was not. I went to an all girls school and he went to an all boys school. We used to have school dances together, which was the only time we got to mix with the boys. So, for my first kiss, I wanted to kiss my crush, but there was no way he was ever going to look at me. So to get his attention, I kissed another boy! I had already decided I was going to have my first kiss that night, whether it was with my crush or not. Three year later, my crush finally did notice me and we kissed. Nothing ever came out of it, but I did get to kiss him! 17: What kind of clique were you in when you were 17? IDB: When I was 17, I was in college and was part of this big girl group who are still my best friends now. We had the time of our lives! It was reckless, fun, wild and stupid all at the same time. 17: What rumors were people spreading about you back then? IDB: I don&amp;#039;t know if anybody ever said anything that was untrue to tell you the truth! 17: What about now? Have you heard any weird rumors about yourself? IDB: I get fake boobs a lot. It&amp;#039;s called a padded bra people! 17: Did you have any nicknames growing up? IDB: Beau, for my name. People still call me that. And Beau Peep! 17: Who was your best friend when you were 17? IDB: I was close with all my friends, I didn&amp;#039;t have a best friend. Today, I have three best friends. They are all in differetn stages of their lives, which is really cool. 17: What did you do for fun when you were 17? IDB: My friends and I loved to dance. We used to go to a nightclub in Kingston and I would just hit the dancefloor until I was dripping in sweat. These days, I don&amp;#039;t go out as much. My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend. 17: What advice did your parents give you when you were 17? IDB: My mom has always been very good at keeping me grounded. Her main message was: Just let it go. Enjoy what you can and don&amp;#039;t hold on to what you can&amp;#039;t.It was so helpful to me because at that time I was juggling friends, college, work and acting. My mom always told me not to take everything so seriously. 17: What advice does your mom give you now? Has it changed? IDB: Carry tissues! She&amp;#039;s happy withy who I&amp;#039;ve become as a person, so now her advice is mostly about carrying tissues, not rubbing my nose, those sorts of things. She also often tells me to stop apologizing too much. She would prefer if I were more confidence and less apologetic about who I am. 17: What was your biggest worry when you were 17 and what is it now? IDB: I used to worry &amp;quot;What if I never achieve what I was hoping for?&amp;quot;. I&amp;#039;ve seen what happens to people who had big dreams and they didn&amp;#039;t work out. For some of them, they were fine and content with the life they had, but I&amp;#039;ve known other people who weren&amp;#039;t as content and that&amp;#039;s a scary thing. Now, I&amp;#039;m at an interesting point in my career where I want to make sure that my work truly reflects who I am. 17: What was your high school boyfriend like? IDB: I never had one! But when I was 17, I started dating someone and the whole experience was just painful. He wasn&amp;#039;t in love with me, and I&amp;#039;m not even sure if I was in love with him, but I was in love with the idea of him. I think it was that first somethinng where we both loved the idea of a relationship, but neither one of us was in love. Now, I&amp;#039;m in a relationship where my boyfriend actually cares how my day went, if I&amp;#039;m too hot or too cold, or he cooks me dinner when I feel sick. I wouldn&amp;#039;t appreciate the man I have now if I didn&amp;#039;t have that first relationship at 17. 17: Who did you idolize when you were 17? IDB: Britney Spears. I used to dance to her album and thought she was just the greatest performer on earth. Now, I love Carey Mulligan. I watch Carey Mulligan and think, &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s the kind of actor I want to be.&amp;quot; I just think she&amp;#039;s unbelievably talented and graceful. She seems so grounded as well. 17: What would you tell your 17 year old self? IDB: That it&amp;#039;s all going to be OK. Everything works out one way or another! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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