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" Carmen Electra has been a dancer, singer, actress, TV host, and celeb wife (twice), but she&amp;#039;s probably best known for being one of the hottest chicks on the planet. At her Cosmo interview at L.A.&amp;#039;s Mr. Chow restaurant, the 34-year-old Ohio native is every bit as sexy as you&amp;#039;d expect in a curve-enhancing blue jersey dress, sky-high heels, and gigantic sunglasses.  Her personality, however, seems like it belongs to a different person. She&amp;#039;s warm, humble, and totally unintimidating. Then again, Carmen has never been your run-of-the-mill bombshell. From the moment she landed in Hollywood in 1990, fresh from high school in Cincinnati, she had ambitions of being a star. Her big break came when a scout for Prince spotted her dancing at a club, and the next thing she knew, she was performing with The Artist and changing her name from Tara Patrick to Carmen Electra (per Prince&amp;#039;s suggestion). She went on to release a self-titled debut album for Prince&amp;#039;s Paisley Park label in 1993 and then cohosted the MTV show Singled Out. But it was her role on Baywatch from 1997 to 1998 that launched her acting career and led to parts in big-screen goofball comedies, such as Scary Movie, Starsky and Hutch, and Cheaper by the Dozen 2.  If only her success extended to her love life. In 1998, she made headlines with her Vegas wedding to basketball star Dennis Rodman. They split five months later. Wedding number two, to guitarist Dave Navarro, was just as notorious (it was chronicled on the MTV reality show &amp;#039;Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen and Dave) and also short-lived (she and Dave split last August after two-and-a-half years of marriage). Now single, Carmen&amp;#039;s focused on work. She is the spokeswoman for Max Factor and starring in the new film Epic Movie. Listen in as she gabs about her career, her body, and life after Dave.   Do you regret having your relationship with Dave turned into a reality series?  Not at all. That was a wonderful time in my life, and I learned so much from Dave and from that experience. It changed my life. The show was fun, and it captured a moment in time that I&amp;#039;ll have forever.  So you don&amp;#039;t believe in some kind of MTV-reality-show curse on marriages?  Well, the Osbournes are still together! It was cool because we didn&amp;#039;t have cameras built into our house. I think that would have been a bit more difficult. But I think Dave and I like attention, so....  Do you think you&amp;#039;ll ever get married again?  I can&amp;#039;t say whether or not I&amp;#039;ll ever get married again, but I&amp;#039;m open to the possibility. I want to have a family someday. I&amp;#039;m so not against marriage. I think it&amp;#039;s a beautiful way for two people to announce that they want to spend the rest of their lives together. I&amp;#039;m very romantic. But I think it&amp;#039;s also important to take your time and not rush into marriage, which I actually didn&amp;#039;t do this time [with Dave]. What I&amp;#039;m saying is, don&amp;#039;t get married in Vegas. Take your time.  Speaking of Vegas weddings, your ex-husband Dennis Rodman recently said that you were still in love with him. Any truth to that?  [Frowning] Need I say? I&amp;#039;d love to sit here and say I regretted [marrying Dennis], and in some ways I probably do, but I think that difficult times are like teachers. I&amp;#039;m such an adventurous and passionate person that I get into the whole romance of it, and it&amp;#039;s easy to get swept away.  Do you generally remain friends with your exes?  With Dave, I&amp;#039;m facing the situation with love and compassion. I&amp;#039;ve been able to step outside the relationship and see it from a different perspective, and it&amp;#039;s empowering to do that. We&amp;#039;re definitely friends. We talk on the phone all the time, and I really, truly wish him happiness, peace, and love.  It is just a coincidence that most of the men you&amp;#039;ve been linked to wear mascara?  I did notice that. I don&amp;#039;t know what that&amp;#039;s all about. I guess I&amp;#039;ve always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals \u2014 people who are adventurous and take chances.  You&amp;#039;re one of the few stars who rarely gets caught by the paparazzi looking like you just rolled out of bed. What&amp;#039;s your secret?  Well...thank you! I mean, gosh, at some level you know you take that chance every time you step outside. I see pictures sometimes, and I&amp;#039;m like Oh God, what was I thinking? But it&amp;#039;s just part of the business, and you have to embrace it. So sometimes I even stop and get out of the car and just say to photographers, &amp;quot;What do you guys need?&amp;quot; I let them take a few pictures, and then I&amp;#039;ll say, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m just going home, so is that cool?&amp;quot; And they usually thank me for being nice, and I thank them for being nice. I can&amp;#039;t complain. You always think, If there was ever a day when they don&amp;#039;t want your picture, then what?  So it&amp;#039;s true that the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about?  I&amp;#039;d rather be looked over than overlooked. Yes, absolutely. At the end of the day, I love it.  Do you have a lot of body confidence?  I actually have more body confidence than I do self-confidence. As a dancer, you learn to communicate with your body, and that&amp;#039;s always felt comfortable for me. But when I was in school, if I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, I&amp;#039;d be petrified. I was shy. Now you can&amp;#039;t shut me up!   Do you work out a lot? I used to work out every single day. It can get a bit obsessive. You feel like as long as you&amp;#039;ve gone to the gym, you&amp;#039;re fine. Then you obsess about it on the days you don&amp;#039;t go. Now I&amp;#039;m trying to be easier on myself. I&amp;#039;ve been doing a lot of yoga lately, which I love. It helps me shut off my mind because I&amp;#039;m an over thinker. And I&amp;#039;ve been going to this meditation place, which helps because I can&amp;#039;t sit still. I&amp;#039;ve also started taking belly-dancing lessons. It&amp;#039;s different from other forms of dance I&amp;#039;ve studied. It&amp;#039;s about controlling and letting go at the same time. There could be some practical uses for that, if one were dating! [Laughs] Is there anything you still want to do in your career that you haven&amp;#039;t done yet? Oh, yeah. Lots of stuff. I want to continue acting and learning and studying so I can get better roles. I&amp;#039;m excited because I want to record music again too. And I love clothes. My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I&amp;#039;d learned to sew because I&amp;#039;m obsessed with Project Runway! I&amp;#039;ve done a lot of different things, but if early on I&amp;#039;d had to pick just one, it would have been dance. It comes the most naturally to me. Do you think your reputation as a sex symbol keeps you from being considered for certain acting roles? I don&amp;#039;t know. Maybe. I don&amp;#039;t really look at it like that. When I first did Playboy and Baywatch and those &amp;quot;sexy&amp;quot; things, I liked the idea of it. But over the past few years, I&amp;#039;ve felt like I want to do more, and I think that&amp;#039;s because I&amp;#039;ve changed a lot as a person. You start thinking, How can I do this in a smarter way? How can I make it more fun? Is there another celeb whom you really admire? Gwen Stefani, who is very kind and down-to-earth What type of guy do you find sexy? For me, it&amp;#039;s more of a feeling than a type. It depends onwhere I am in my mind and my heart. Sometimes I&amp;#039;ve wanted someone to grow with spiritually, who was more quiet, and other times I&amp;#039;ve wanted excitement and unpredictability. Which way are you leaning now? I&amp;#039;m not really looking. I&amp;#039;m just having fun hanging out with the girls. I feel like I&amp;#039;m ready to be alone a little bitmore. My friends come over, and we barbecue and watch movies and play board games. We play a lot of Scattergories. And I really like Boggle too. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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