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.

It's Over: Mandy Moore and DJ AM

DJ AM needs to find himself a new celebrity to date. Mandy Moore dumped him, according to Page Six. You may recall that DJ AM (aka Adam Goldstein) wanted to hook up with a starlet to get some press coverage after his break up with Nicole Richie left him locked out of the Hollywood scene. Poor guy has to try again, I guess. No word from Mandy's rep on whether the rumor is true or not.

Photo from Page Six.

Cover Girl: Mandy Moore

Mandy Moore is featured in this month's Jane Magazine, according to Us Weekly. We get all the dish about how Mandy's doing since her split from Scrbus star Zach Braff:

On having a quarter-life crisis:

"I've been going through this really crazy time in my life – it's what I imagine people fresh out of college go through. I'm asking myself life-altering questions like, 'Who am I? Where do I fit in this world? What am I doing, what do I want to do? Am I living to my full potential?"

On her early albums:

"I feel bad that people wasted their money on such trite, blah pop music."

On being depressed:
"A few months ago, I felt really low, really sad. Depressed for no reason. I'm a very positive person, and I've always been glass half-full. So it was like someone flipped a switch in me."

On breaking up with Zach Braff:

"The breakup added to what I was going through, but it's not the complete reason. It definitely doesn't help if you're already in that place..."

On leaving pop music behind:

"I could've made a record a year ago with the same people who do everybody's records. But I'm super-proud that I stuck to my guns. You don't have to follow the mainstream. I love pop music but it's not right for me."

On dating:

"I've tried dating a bit, and I don't like it. I know I should be putting myself out there. But I don't really think it's for me. That's not to say I'm ready to jump back into a relationship any time soon. I'm definitely not looking. But it would be fun to have a crush."

On why she doesn’t drink:

"I'm a control freak, and I think maybe that's why. I'm too scared to see what will happen. I've been drunk maybe two or three times in my life, although I do like to have a glass of wine before going into the studio, to mellow me out."

On her image:

"I kind of am a goody-goody. But I'm not judgmental. I've done a couple of movies [A Walk to Remember, Saved] where I've played Christian characters, so people assume I'm very religious. It's not a completely correct perception of who I am."

On the future:

"I'm still figuring it all out, but I want to be extraordinary. I want to live up to my full potential. I've always been really shy, very 'don't look at me.' I've wanted to hide. But now I don't want to hide.”

Mandy Moore and DJ AM Step Out

So maybe it really is true that Mandy Moore and Nicole Richie's ex, DJ AM, are dating. The two went out for lunch in West Hollywood on Monday. Looks like when DJ AM asks for a favor from his friends, they deliver.

Photo from People.

DJ AM Makes a Fool of Himself

Page Six reports that DJ AM is girlfriend shopping.

Why, you may ask? Well to raise his rates, of course. Page Six's source says that DJ AM (Adam Goldstein) has been asking his friends to "set him up with someone who has a name." The source continues: "Basically, he knows he can charge a lot more when he is attached to a famous girlfriend. His rates have had to go way down since he split up with Nicole." And I think they just went down even more....

Photo from US Weekly.