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"Kate Beckinsale: Her Allure Photo Shoot\\nBelieve it or not, Kate Beckinsale almost gave up acting to become a doctor. What made the smartest actress in Hollywood change her mind? Read &amp;quot;The Bold and the Beautiful,&amp;quot; in the March 2008 issue of Allure.\\nWearing tall boots and a swingy Stella McCartney coat, Beckinsale (here, with Thompson and *Allure* creative director Paul Cavaco) listened as Cavaco explained his concept for the shoot. \\\"I wanted it to look as though Kate just walked into the studio and we photographed her, and I'd brought along easy clothes\\u00ad\u2014striped shirts and shorts,\\\" he said. The actress started laughing and pulled open her coat\u2014she was wearing a striped shirt and shorts. \\\"We're thinking alike,\\\" she said.\\nTo accentuate Beckinsale's slightly tilted, coal-dark eyes, makeup artist Gucci Westman (pictured here with hairstylist Sebastien Richard) rimmed them with black liquid liner and brushed black and ruby shadows on her eyelids.\\nThe actress was coy when asked to name her favorite physical attribute: \\\"Mmmmm. My best feature is unfortunately a private matter.... I'm told it's spectacular. But you can't really walk it down the red carpet.\\\"\\nRichard created Beckinsale's relaxed, beachy hairstyle by spritzing the roots with volumizer before blow-drying, and then adding pomade and salt spray for texture. Here, the hairstylist brushes Beckinsale's hair as Cavaco looks on.\\nThe actress, who studied French and Russian literature at Oxford, nearly changed careers four years ago, when she wondered if her work\u2014and all that comes with it\u2014was stimulating her intellectually. \\\"I've done a number of press junketts where the questions were not very intelligent, and if you get somebody who's a bit slow and stupid, it's the most boring thing ever!\\\"\\n\\\"I have a husband who *lit*-erally worships me. And cleans the house. And blow-dries my daughter's hair,\\\" says Beckinsale of Len Wiseman, the handsome director who casted her in *Underworld*. As Beckinsale posed, he snapped a few shots of his wife on-set for the family album. Pictured: Westman brushes a peachy pink powder blush on Beckinsale's cheeks.\\n\\\"Acting requires so much delving into yourself and exposing yourself, so it's sensible to be wondering, \\\"Do I still want to be doing this?\\\" Beckinsale says. \\\"But I enjoy the work, and everything is so solid at home. I don't care if they've said I had buttocks impants. Or not. I don't care. Go ahead!\\\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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