I would wake up the next day feeling like shit. But that would be empty for me that to me is a hollow move. “I am going to do what makes me feel happy, what I feel like doing. “I’m serious, hand to God.” Given that she’s supposed to be so freewheeling, can’t she just have sex for fun? “If I wanted to I would completely do that,” she says. You would not even believe it,” she says with a laugh. Some guys … I don’t even have their number. I got so uncomfortable because now what? He’s not even able to be seen with girl, because I’m dragged back into headlines that say he’s cheating on me, and I don’t even know this guy. “We were still dating … we were just three months in and I liked his vibe, he was a good guy, and then paparazzi got us on vacation in Mexico. Despite all those rumors of sexual liaisons, Rihanna says her last real, official boyfriend was Chris Brown-when they briefly got back together three years after his arrest for assaulting her in 2009 (more about that later)-and, prior to that, then Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, who she says she was just getting to know when the paparazzi got a picture of them together. When it comes to made-up stories, Rihanna knows whereof she speaks. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz Styled by Jessica Diehl. Rihanna, parked at Bar la Rosa, on La Rosa Street in Havana, Cuba, with a 1956 Lincoln Continental Mark II (once owned by First Lady Marta Fernández de Batista). All those other things are just made-up stories.” “I’m stuck on the fact that these things actually happened. Those are things that actually happened in real life,” she says. What about NCIS and CSI? “I used to watch them,” she says, “until I found The First 48 and Snapped. She loves Bates Motel and forensics shows. “When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.” Now we’re off and running, both of us mourning the end of Breaking Bad. “Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am,” she says.
And while people may assume that her life is just one big, long, sexy night out on the town, she insists it’s not true. She is elegant, funny, straightforward, and downright horrified (and laughs hysterically) at all of the rumors I toss at her. Nor is she the woman who has been described as badass, shocking, naughty, tough-pictured in tabloids and online with various rumored rapper/actor/athlete boyfriends. and New York hot spots 1Oak and Up & Down. But I will sacrifice an hour for the gym.” The 27-year-old woman in front of me is not the provocative, wild hip-hop prom queen, the sexy girl allegedly at the center of a jealous, bottle-throwing brawl in a nightclub, nor the habitué of L.A. She says, “Legit, I have been in the gym every day this week because I am not willing to give up my food. When she orders three half-portions of pasta dishes (spaghetti pomodoro with basil, gnocchi, and ravioli), I ask how she maintains her curvy but slim figure. She’s wearing a white crop top, denim cutoff shorts, Puma sneakers, and a flowing Chinese-patterned robe.
She’s even more beautiful in person than she is in her photos.
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Her hair is reddish, wavy her face seems free of makeup. Rihanna sits across the table from me in the private room at Giorgio Baldi, her favorite restaurant in L.A. I’m always concerned about whether people have good or bad intentions. It’s become second nature for me to just close that door and just be O.K. It made me back away from even wanting to attempt to date. The reality is that the fame, the rumors-this picture means this, another picture means that-it really freaks me out. People have this image of how wild and crazy I am, and I’m not everything they think of me. I honestly think how much fun it would be to live my reputation.
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You have to have a tough skin in this business you’re going to hear some things about yourself that you’re going to think, What? Are you crazy? -Jay Z She’s gone through things that everyone’s gone through-dysfunctional relationships, things that played out in front of everyone’s eyes-and she’s done a real good job of keeping her life private, but just living her life as a young person … unapologetically. You are seeing the authentic version of who she is. What makes Rihanna special-outside of the music-is that she is someone who is genuinely herself.