Jennifer Connelly is a Cover Girl

She was on the cover of the January issue of Elle magazine, and now she is the cover girl for the February issue of Glamour. That girl sure does get around.

The Academy Award winning actress, 36, is married to actor Paul Bettany (from the blockbuster movie The Da Vinci Code), and has two children, Kai, 9, and Stellan, 3. Her newest film is Blood Diamond, also starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

The interview for Glamour magazine was conducted by author Eve Ensler, who is best-known for her play, The Vagina Monologues, which has been performed in more than 76 countries. Some excerpts from their interview:

EE: Were your parents really supportive?

JC: Of?

EE: You.

JC: Yeah, my parents were supportive.

EE: There’s a little reservation there.

JC: Yes, my parents were supportive of me. They are supportive of me. Sometimes I don’t know how I wound up modeling when I was 10, but they were supportive, and everything’s cool now.

EE: Whose idea was the modeling?

JC: I don’t really know. It gave me some interesting things that I had to figure out and work through. I look at girls these days and their mothers tell me, “My daughter’s asking ‘Do I look fat? Do I look fat?’” and they’re nine years old. Growing up modeling magnified that for me; it was weird to try and get through it.

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EE: Do you think the world sees you as funny?

JC: I wouldn’t think so. I get a lot of scripts for women on the verge!

EE: Like breakdown mode.

JC: Yeah. I don’t feel crazy. I don’t feel unstable.

EE: You so don’t seem unstable to me.

JC: Thank you. Oh! My fingernails!

EE: What about them?

JC: Part of my body that I don’t like. My fingernails! I can’t leave them alone.

EE: Why?

JC: People try and put nail polish on them, but I take it off. I chew them.

EE: So what part of you are they a metaphor for?

JC: That’s too deep for me. It’s just something I can get away with. It’s not drugs, it’s not cigarettes, it’s not alcohol.

EE: It’s something that’s entirely in your control—unlike an interview, where you have no control of the direction it’ll go.

JC: This hasn’t been so bad! I am particularly happy you didn’t ask me if I kissed Leonardo DiCaprio.

EE: That’s ‘cause I don’t care!