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" Were there instant sparks when you met your fianc\u00E9, Joe Macaluso, on the set of Little Black Book? I was still dating Jeffrey [Kwatinetz] when we met, and when I&amp;#039;m with someone, I have blinders on. A girlfriend of mine had the biggest crush on Joe, so I was trying to set them up, and that&amp;#039;s how I got to know him. I asked him to put up our Christmas lights, and after that, my mom hired him to do some handy work around our house [she lives with her mom], and they became friends. About a month after I broke up with Jeffrey, I called and asked Joe if he wanted to go to the movies. He was the first guy I&amp;#039;d ever asked out.   What was your first date like? We didn&amp;#039;t call it a date; we called it an adventure. We went to a movie, and then he took me for a drive around L.A. He celebrates a holiday that he made up called Appreciation Day, and it was 27 days away. As we were driving, he said, &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s get to know each other and see if we want to take this further.&amp;quot; He told me to pick a number, and I picked 13. So we went on 13 adventures in 27 days to see if we had chemistry.   When did you kiss him? We made it to day 17. He kissed my arm, and I jumped over the center console of the car and started kissing him. We&amp;#039;ve been together since.   Why did you wait so long to hook up with him? He didn&amp;#039;t want us to be a rebound relationship. And I thought it was smart to wait after coming out of a very serious relationship. But now we&amp;#039;re making up for lost time.   Are you still friends with your ex-fianc\u00E9, Jeffrey? Yes, he&amp;#039;s one of my dearest friends in the world -- and my music manager. We&amp;#039;re proof that it&amp;#039;s possible to be friends with an ex. I think it works for us because we were friends before we dated, so now we&amp;#039;re back to that. Ours wasn&amp;#039;t a volatile, bitter breakup. It was mutual and rational. I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.   What about Ashton Kutcher...are you friends with him? I&amp;#039;ve run into him only once since that relationship ended.   How did Joe propose? He proposed New Year&amp;#039;s Eve day at 9 am. He was acting strange for a few days, and I didn&amp;#039;t catch on. I&amp;#039;m not somebody that would naturally assume, The love of my life is going to propose to me. He proposed in the place I feel the safest -- my aunt and uncle&amp;#039;s backyard in New Jersey.   Are you going to have a bachelorette party? Yes. I want everything to be very traditional. I want to send out save-the-dates with our picture on them, and I think I want a small- to medium-size wedding of just dear friends and family. We both have big families.   You&amp;#039;ve lived with your mom your whole life. Will she continue to live with you after you&amp;#039;re married? Yes, in the same house that we live in now. It&amp;#039;s really big, and there&amp;#039;s a downstairs level and an upper level, which are really separate, so there&amp;#039;s privacy.   Your character in The Groomsmen is pregnant. Are you planning on starting a family right away? I definitely want to start a family, but that will happen when it&amp;#039;s supposed to. I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem -- take advantage of that.   You&amp;#039;re working on an album. What&amp;#039;s the theme of it? It&amp;#039;s all about me. I&amp;#039;ve written it for years, and hopefully, it will be out in the fall. I&amp;#039;ve worked on a lot of other people&amp;#039;s albums anonymously \u2014 a lot of rap, hip-hop, and R&amp;amp;amp;B stuff \u2014 and I hear myself on the radio all the time. I&amp;#039;ve just always kept it a secret and never taken credit because I wanted to learn how to work behind the microphone in a recording studio, and some of the singers don&amp;#039;t even know it was me recording on their albums [she was recording backup when they weren&amp;#039;t in the studio]. My singing voice isn&amp;#039;t like my speaking voice, so you&amp;#039;d never know it&amp;#039;s me.  You did put your name on the recent single Faster Kill Pussycat, which you recorded with dance-music artist Paul Oakenfold. How did that come about? [A few years ago] I performed at the Roxy. I was the guest singer between Christina Aguilera and Gwen Stefani. Paul was in the audience and asked me to put down some vocals for him. A half hour later, I was in the studio with him. Then years later, I got a call saying it was going to be the first single off the album. When you&amp;#039;re not working, what do you do for fun? Joe and I will take a drive down to the beach in Malibu and go to Malibu Seafood or drive around and look for real estate. I love lunches with my girlfriends or doing spa things. I&amp;#039;ll go dancing twice a year with girlfriends, but I don&amp;#039;t really like the whole club scene. I&amp;#039;m not a drinker, and I don&amp;#039;t do drugs.I don&amp;#039;t think drugs and I would ever mix, and I&amp;#039;m kind of awuss, so that probably has a lot to do with it. Are you still friends with Winona Ryder? We were close friends and unfortunately have lost touch over the years. [My hairstylist] Kenny [Pav\u00E9s] is one of my dearest friends, and he&amp;#039;s been introducing me to otheractresses. It&amp;#039;s really cute \u2014 he has all these girls he works with, and he wants them to be friends with each other. Through him, Eva Longoria and I are becoming friends. What&amp;#039;s something your friends tease you about? I&amp;#039;m a big goof, and I&amp;#039;m neurotic. I&amp;#039;m a clean freak and agermaphobe \u2014 I have hand sanitizer in my pocket. What&amp;#039;s one rumor about yourself that&amp;#039;s really hurt? I was hurt by the [eating disorder] one. That&amp;#039;s the only thing I&amp;#039;ve ever let get under my skin because all the other rumors about me were just too absurd. I had a publicist at the time who told me that I should cover my arms up in photos. She felt that if I did that, they would stop picking on me. She meant well, but it made me really self-conscious. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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