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Celeb News: Rihanna: Elle Canada Interview
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Rihanna: Elle Canada Interview
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“Are you a misfit?” I ask her. She ***** her head. “Hmm, what do you think?” I genuinely don’t know. I saw the performer stalk around the stage like a panther at the Toronto stop of her private (and wild) 777 concert tour in November 2012, hurling good-natured profanity, and now I’m faced with this soft-spoken girl.
“I think I embraced the person I am after I understood that I’m not going to find somebody else in the world who’s going to think exactly like me and agree with everything I think and live the way I want to live,” she explains. She only hooked that kind of equanimity four years ago though, she says
You just come to a place where you want to actually live,” she continues. “You don’t want to just exist; you want to have fun, you want to be free and you want to know that you did it the way you wanted. Years from now, you can look back at memories and things that made you happy—that’s what’s important.”
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“What I’m really scared of is not being in control,” she explains. I’m about to ask about her reputation for late shows and later nights, when she seems to anticipate my question. “That’s why I can’t get too drunk; I can’t do anything that takes charge of me,” she says. “That’s what I want for young women: to be in control of themselves and be in control of their lives. It’s so easy for people to be...” She trails off, trying to find the right word. “I don’t want to say submissive, but weak-minded.... I want to encourage them, especially when it comes to protecting themselves.”
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“The AIDS epidemic has been around for as long as I have been alive, which really puts it into perspective,” she explains. “Roughly half of the new infections are in people 24 years old or younger, with the majority being female.” Rihanna is hoping to use the platform she has built on sexy lyrics like “Boy, can you get it up?” to remove the stigma around sex and, hopefully, encourage girls to protect themselves.
It’s clear that the Caribbean rate of AIDS infections, the second-highest outside of sub-Saharan Africa, unsettles her. She just donated $1.75 million to a Bajan hospital. She has become something of a monarch on the small island of Barbados—a position that, historically, comes with equal parts veneration and venom.
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She’s trying to shut out other people’s opinions about her life anyway. “I never want to lose myself,” she says quietly. “It’s really easy to get pulled in lots of different directions, and I never want to get pulled so far deep that I can’t come out. There are things that happen in your life that you can’t control, but I want to control as much as possible.” I wonder how she maintains any kind of command over a life that is both more scheduled and frantic than Grand Central station. She talks easily about idle pastimes like painting and cooking, dismissing the fact that she practically never has time to indulge in them by explaining that they’re still “fun.” She seems to punctuate her thoughts that way: by throwing out “it’s fun” and flashing a smile. Perhaps a reminder that, despite the ever-tightening vice of galactic fame, she’s still young and beautiful and having the time of her life. But is she happy? “Yes!” she shouts, a mischievous smile on her face. “I can’t complain! If I complain, God would slap me in my face right now.”
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Read full interview here http://www.ellecanada.com/celebrity/...erview/a/83743
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The white border 
But yas stan for Canada. Interesting read.
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Originally posted by MMMinaj
The white border
But yas stan for Canada. Interesting read. |
Its bothering me too, let me change pics
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It was a nice read, I just got done reading it.
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he has become something of a monarch on the small island of Barbados—a position that, historically, comes with equal parts veneration and venom. On my way into town from the airport, the cab driver, like some sort of volunteer star tracker, let me know that Rihanna was at her brother’s club. When I was sitting on the beach that morning, a man shilling snorkelling tours started his sales pitch with “So, you like RiRi?” before rolling his eyes. Much like “aloha” to Hawaiians, Rihanna’s name seems to mean everything in this place.
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A true saint. 
And I didn't know she liked to paint. I wonder if she's any good. 
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“That’s what I want for young women: to be in control of themselves and be in control of their lives.
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Feminist icon
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It was a nice read, I just got done reading it.
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 Yeah took me a while to read too, but it was worth it.
- I never knew she could paint or even liked to paint in her spare time.
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I wonder what's with all these magazines.. Does that mean R8 is coming. 
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Kii at Katy Perry writing the article.
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Kii at Katy Perry writing the article.
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Kii at Katy Perry writing the article.
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It’s clear that the Caribbean rate of AIDS infections, the second-highest outside of sub-Saharan Africa, unsettles her. She just donated $1.75 million to a Bajan hospital. She has become something of a monarch on the small island of Barbados—a position that, historically, comes with equal parts veneration and venom.
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idle pastimes like painting
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Bitch why haven't I seen any of your paintings?
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You just come to a place where you want to actually live,” she continues. “You don’t want to just exist; you want to have fun, you want to be free and you want to know that you did it the way you wanted. Years from now, you can look back at memories and things that made you happy—that’s what’s important.”
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I felt like she was talking to me when she said this.Speaks way too close to home.
Rihanna is flawlees the realest chick in the game!!! So inspiring.
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I am not a fan of Rihanna, so I would NOT be here for this.
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I am not a fan of Rihanna, so I would NOT be here for this. |
Not here for what? It's just an interview.
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Kii at Katy Perry writing the article.
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I really liked what she said all her interview s have been great so far
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