Cover Girl: Mandy Moore on Elle Magazine

Mandy Moore is a busy girl these days. Besides her newest album, and being on the cover of the May issue of Elle magazine, she also hit C Magazine as well. Here's a little excerpt from her Elle interview:

"Please fill me in on the particulars of your present roman­tic life."

"Oy. It's boring. Nobody wants to know about it. Honestly, I thought about that today, and I tried to figure out a polite or witty way to say, 'I don't want to talk about my personal life.'"

"Come up with anything good?"

"I didn't come up with anything."

(Here's something: Moore's been seen hanging out with Adam Goldstein, also called DJ AM, and best known for making upward of 25 grand per three hours of record spinning, having had gastric-bypass surgery, and being the former fiancé of Nicole Richie.)

"I've wondered, plagued by any body issues?"

"Sometimes I feel fine. Sometimes I don't feel so great. I'm a regular person. I'm not that thin. I'm okay with representing a different type than the normal Hollywood beauty ideal. But other people aren't so okay with that. I've been told that I have to lose weight for stuff before. It's mortifying. It's hard to have someone come up and go, 'You should lose a few pounds.' And they don't say it delicately. How can you? It's only happened to me once before. But once is enough to make you feel awful."

A few calls reveal that Moore is referring to License to Wed, this summer's romantic comedy with Robin Williams and The Office's John Krasinski. Some Warner Bros. executive had seen American Dreamz and deemed her too round. "All I can tell you is that I've never been on any production where some executive didn't say, 'Can't that actress lose weight?'" says the film's director, Ken Kwapis. "It's a horrible part of being a director in Hollywood." Ugly show business realities and obvious biases aside, Kwapis thinks License to Wed might be the showcase that flings Moore into the America's sweetheart throne that's been empty for so long. "I feel confident that this could be the role," he says. "It is so winning. The audience is just going to fall in love with her."

Krasinki certainly seems enamored with her. In his first leading-man role, he initially had misgivings about playing opposite a woman who'd grown up famous. "I expected that maybe Mandy was going to be living on her own planet," he says. "She wasn't at all. She's incredibly sweet and smart, and she cares so much. Nothing's half-assed with her. I wish I could say the same thing about myself when I was in my early twenties."

Even with the hide toughening that comes with spending a third of your life in the cattiest industry in the world, a girl can still make a stupid mistake. On a recent trip to Paris, Moore, unable to sleep, pulled out her laptop and ended up on a blog on which a photo of her was being dissected. "People are so mean," she says. She chronicles the things she read about herself—"She's fat. She's untalented. I wish she'd shut up. I don't want to hear another record from her." And then Moore did what she's always done, and the reason we still know her name: She rose in the morning, did her best to forget all those voices, and got right back to work.