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"  Jane Fonda is looking at a portrait Richard Avedon took of her for the September 1960 issue of Bazaar, her young, gold-dusted face punctuated by a whimsical beauty mark painted on just above her cheekbone. With a throaty laugh, she recalls posing for another shot during the same session that never made it into the magazine\u2014one that rattled her so much, she had the picture burned. &amp;quot;I remember being photographed naked by Avedon and then going home and becoming terrified that my father would get angry,&amp;quot; Fonda says. &amp;quot;The next day I went back to Richard&amp;#039;s studio and persuaded him to burn the negative, which he did\u2014in front of me.&amp;quot; Fonda takes a second look at the &amp;quot;frontally revealing&amp;quot; Bazaar portrait that made it through that shoot unscathed. &amp;quot;Is this really 1960?&amp;quot; she marvels. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s funny, I was recently in Atlanta&amp;quot;\u2014where Fonda has had a home since 1991, when she married media mogul Ted Turner; they later divorced. &amp;quot;I have a roomful of photo albums, and I saw pictures of myself in 1960 that were as different from this as night and day. If I had any identity then, it was pretty shaky.&amp;quot;   It&amp;#039;s hard to imagine Fonda\u2014salacious space babe in Barbarella, polarizing antiwar activist, &amp;#039;80s workout trailblazer, and a woman who now, at 77, continues to be renowned for her utter fearlessness\u2014as anything less than thoroughly self-assured. &amp;quot;But, you know, Avedon had a way of either bringing out your true identity,&amp;quot; she says, &amp;quot;or else making you look like you had one even if you didn&amp;#039;t.&amp;quot; Atlanta is also home to Fonda&amp;#039;s latest personal project: She is building a shrine to herself. She started culling material for it after her birthday last December as a reminder of who she is and all she&amp;#039;s done. With a Hollywood family (her father was actor Henry Fonda); three marriages (to film director Roger Vadim, activist Tom Hayden, and Turner; she now lives with her boyfriend, music producer Richard Perry); three children, all in their 40s (Mary Williams, Vanessa Vadim, and Troy Garity); and a screen career that has spanned more than five decades, Fonda has a lot to mine. She inaugurated the collection, which she announced (to some fanfare) on her amusingly detailed blog in December, with her fourth-grade report card. &amp;quot;There are photographs of me at different times in my life when I felt empowered\u2014as an infant; on a jungle gym when I was nine; in workout garb; at 60; making a muscle as Barbarella,&amp;quot; she says. Since then she&amp;#039;s added several mementos wrapped in metaphor, like the crystal geode that playwright Eve Ensler gave her on the opening night of 33 Variations on Broadway, in 2009 (&amp;quot;you break open and your internal self is revealed&amp;quot;), and a bear-shaped stone fetish carved by members of the Hopi tribe. (&amp;quot;I identify with the bear,&amp;quot; she explains. &amp;quot;It goes into long periods of hibernation, and I am fundamentally a loner. But when it comes out, it likes to play.&amp;quot;)  Fonda&amp;#039;s work in early films like 1967&amp;#039;s Barefoot in the Park and 1971&amp;#039;s Klute quickly embedded her in the cultural consciousness. (&amp;quot;The main question I get asked is, &amp;#039;What was it like to kiss Robert Redford?&amp;#039; Isn&amp;#039;t that great?&amp;quot; she says of Barefoot. &amp;quot;The answer is, I always had a blast!&amp;quot;) Her relationship with Turner, though, marked the beginning of a 15-year hiatus from acting, during which time Fonda continued her work with various feminist causes, wrapped up her original Workout franchise, and wrote her memoir, My Life So Far, released in 2005, the year she returned to the screen, opposite Jennifer Lopez in Monster-in-Law.  Earlier this year, Fonda reunited with her Nine to Five costar Lily Tomlin for the new Netflix comedy Grace and Frankie, which casts the two actresses as aging rivals whose husbands fall in love with each other. &amp;quot;It was a steep learning curve, doing episodic television,&amp;quot; says Fonda. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been a recurring guest star, but having my own show is new\u2014hard\u2014and having Lily with me, a friend whom I totally trust, made all the difference.&amp;quot; (Visit Fonda&amp;#039;s blog for a panoply of their Sundance selfies.) &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s 13 half-hour episodes, so you can watch it in six and half hours,&amp;quot; she adds excitedly. &amp;quot;Which I&amp;#039;ve already done\u2014twice.&amp;quot;  Yes, Fonda likes a good binge-watch. She confesses to an obsession with HBO&amp;#039;s true-crime hit, The Jinx. &amp;quot;To have watched it before Robert Durst was arrested, it was perfect television,&amp;quot; she says. She&amp;#039;s also quick to praise Empire. &amp;quot;Cookie is so well written, and Taraji Henson acts it beautifully.&amp;quot; Her cultural palate is eclectic, to say the least. Fonda listens to Chet Baker and Katy Perry, and coos about the last great novel she read, Lila, by Marilynne Robinson. She cherishes her Frank Gehry Fish lamp, her Noguchi coffee table, and the &amp;quot;six Warhols of myself on the wall,&amp;quot; and collects 1920s California plein air paintings as well as works by Southern Outsider artists like Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley. How Fonda has managed to remain so, well, hot into her 70s is also a matter of keen public interest. &amp;quot;I haven&amp;#039;t tried to hide the fact that I&amp;#039;ve had plastic surgery,&amp;quot; she says, referring to the eye, neck, and chin work she had five years ago after having sworn in 2000 that she was done with cosmetic surgery. (&amp;quot;Just to pick up the sags a little,&amp;quot; she says.) Fonda got breast implants during her second marriage but had them removed more than a decade ago. Of course, fitness is another major factor for the onetime aerobics queen. &amp;quot;I try to walk an hour a day, and four times a week I do a workout of stretching, lifting light dumbbells, and using resistance bands,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m 77 years old, so I can&amp;#039;t lift or push the kind of weight I used to, but I&amp;#039;ve learned that the pumping-up kind of workouts aren&amp;#039;t necessarily the best.&amp;quot; Tired of her signature flipped-out bob (&amp;quot;I call it the tulip&amp;quot;), Fonda is test-driving a long-hair-don&amp;#039;t-care attitude. It&amp;#039;s the latest of her many &amp;quot;hair epiphanies,&amp;quot; which have been responsible for a number of iconic &amp;#039;dos over the years. The first struck in the late &amp;#039;60s, when her marriage to Vadim was unraveling. &amp;quot;Hair grows right out of your head, so I think somehow it&amp;#039;s connected to your brain and can be a manifestation of profound transitional periods,&amp;quot; she says. That became the famous Klute shag. Her appreciation for jewelry is also a new development, Fonda says, returning to the Avedon image, in which she models a whopping 25-carat canary-yellow rock. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m no Elizabeth Taylor,&amp;quot; she says, surprised to hear that the actress on the opposite side of the Bazaar spread was, indeed, Taylor. &amp;quot;I never owned any big diamonds, until one day on the set of Monster-in-Law I told Jennifer Lopez, and she could not believe it! When we finished shooting she gave me a diamond watch and said, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m going to teach you to love diamonds.&amp;#039; &amp;quot; Her wardrobe, on the other hand, has brimmed with chutzpah from the start. &amp;quot;In the mid-&amp;#039;60s, I went on this national evening talk show with my then husband, Roger, wearing a black totally see-through Saint Laurent top with nothing on underneath,&amp;quot; Fonda recalls. &amp;quot;Every now and then I think of that and say, &amp;#039;What was I thinking?&amp;#039; And it didn&amp;#039;t really cause a furor or anything.&amp;quot; Now her daytime &amp;quot;uniform&amp;quot; consists of yoga pants and a casual top. &amp;quot;I haven&amp;#039;t worn anything very daring recently,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;My son has told me it&amp;#039;s inappropriate at my age. Prior to that, however, it was all thigh-high boots and very, very, very short leather miniskirts,&amp;quot; she adds, laughing. &amp;quot;That was about four years ago.&amp;quot; This article originally appeared in the June/July 2015 issue of Harper&amp;#039;s BAZAAR.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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