KRISTEN STEWART has spoken about the evolution of her style as she grew up in the public eye - admitting that she was more than a little androgynous in her youth.
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"Look at a picture of me before I was 15. I am a boy," she said. "I wore my brother's clothes, dude! Not like I cared that much, but I remember being made fun of because I wasn't wearing Juicy jeans. I didn't even think about it. I wore my gym clothes. But it's not like I didn't care that they made fun of me. It really bothered me. I remember this girl in sixth grade looked at me in gym and was like, 'Oh my God! That's disgusting-you don't shave your legs!'"
She also spoke about her much-maligned lack of smiles in posed red-carpet photographs.
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"I have been criticised a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph," Stewart says in this month's Vanity Fair. "I get some serious shit about it. I'm not embarrassed about it. I'm proud of it. If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!' That thought embarrasses me so much that I look like shit in half my photos, and I don't give a fuck. What matters to me is that the people in the room leave and say, 'She was cool. She had a good time. She was honest.' I don't care about the voracious, starving shit-eaters who want to turn truth into shit."
Her co-star and boyfriend Robert Pattinson was kinder about her often sullen look in pictures, laying the blame at the media's door.
"People have decided how they are going to perceive her," he told Vanity Fair about Stewart. "No matter how many times she smiles, they'll put in the one picture where she's not smiling."
