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Pink’S Most Popular Songs Have Revolved Around Heartbreak and Other Drama What’s Sexy Now... 2 NK P Pop’s favorite bad girl is now P One wild and wickedly hot mama By Bethany Heitman Int’l/ Orly for Kyees Kimmie Manicure: Addict. Dior using Agency Magnet The at Jeung Kathy Makeup: Tresemmé. for Santini Marco Hair: McCool. Michelle director: Fashion celestineagency.com.Dress: Gabbana;Dolce & earrings:left (Onwrist) bracelet:goldMeiraT. Sandlau;Julie blackmoon,diamondandstar, bracelets: Kismet. rightwrist)(On bracelet: ring:Colette. Tai; page See238shoppingfor information. photographs by matt jones married with a baby. So has she turnedJust because into she a won’t softie? be boozing Hell, her way no. happily through her next album doesn’t mean she’ll play it safe when it comes to content. In the past, some of Pink’s most popular songs have revolved around heartbreak and other drama. There was “Family Portrait,” which was about growing up with divorced Pink strides into the lobby of the Viceroy Santa Monica parents who were constantly fighting. Then on her Hotel looking every bit the rock star. She’s dressed in last album, Funhouse, she was brutally honest about tight jeans, high-heeled boots, and a low-cut black her temporary split from her hubby, Carey Hart— sweater. Her platinum hair is slicked back, and she’s saying things like “I’m gonna drink my money / I’m wearing aviators. Introducing herself as Alecia (her not gonna pay his rent.” birth name), she pulls off her shades, lifts an eyebrow, In spite of how solid she seems these days, Pink and says “So are you ready to do this?” insists she still has issues. “Everyone is like ‘Oh, After ducking into the hotel’s private library for our you’re happy now, so you won’t have anything to sing chat, the badass singer explains that she hasn’t sat about.’ But am I? How do they know down for an interview since having her daughter that?” she says, shrugging almost a year ago. “I’ve been in mommy mode, and I’m her shoulders. just starting to get back out there into the real world,” “Listen, I am 32, in G SINGLE she says, getting comfy on a leather couch. “I’ve been in TOP-SELLIN a monogamous the studio recording my new album, so now it feels like “So What” ’D relationship, and ERSON SHE everything is falling back into place.” REAL P E just figuring out that E TO PLAY IN A MOVI At 32, Pink pretty much has it all. After some LOV there’s a time limit on Janis Joplin highly publicized bumps a few years back, her G FACT your childhood woes. SURPRISIN marriage is solid, and she says she’s completely But at the same time, I Pink’s done with tattoos. obsessed with her new daughter, Willow. And this LEB CRUSH still feel like that little ODD CE year, she’ll once again prove how talented she is—her girl. So I think I have Sparks fly between her sixth album comes out this fall, and she will be Lauer when . plenty of material.” and Matt Today show starring in her first dramatic movie (keep reading for she’s on the Billy Mann, a music more details on that). Pretty damn impressive. “Yeah, producer who’s worked I’ve exorcised a lot of my demons,” admits the with Pink frequently, knows her next album will be infamously wild and outspoken singer. “But I’m still killer. “She’s so authentic and fearless. She says working on myself. I think I’ll be a work in progress exactly what she thinks and will continue to do that for the rest of my life.” And since she’s never one to so fans will always feel connected to her. Plus, she hold back, Pink has no problem at all revealing exactly challenges herself, which keeps her fresh.” Pwhich areas of her life she’s currently working on. Another way she’s switching things up? Later this year, she’ll show off her serious acting skills for the first time when she appears in Thanks for Sharing, alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Mark STILL FEARLESS. Ruffalo. Pink, who plays a sex addict, says she was To some degree, Pink’s crazy days are over…especially terrified when she arrived on set. “The first day, I when it comes to recording. “I’m used to going into the was standing in front of Gwyneth and was like studio and smoking and drinking until three in the ‘Hmmm, maybe I’m just a singer. Is it too late to morning. But I can’t drink as much because I’m quit?’” she says smiling. “Thankfully, I understood breast-feeding. See this glass of wine?” she says my character. It’s not like I was playing the girl next pointing to some chardonnay the waitress has just door; she’s a sex addict. I was on lots of drugs as a brought over. “Before, I’d have like four of them. Now teenager and had friends die of overdoses, so one is good. Oh, and I quit smoking.” addiction isn’t a foreign concept. I get that.” June 2012 | COSMOPOLITAN 41 What’s Sexy Now... Ten bucks says Willow The becomes a rocker. Cosmo Quiz Name:____________________ Nickname: ________________ ________________________ On her next In 50 years, I hope to be tour, Pink will remembered for my: up the ante a. Killer voice. even more. b. Rock-hard muscles. c. Awesome live performances. d. Cool hair. e. Other: ____________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ When I want to feel really sexy, I: ___________________________ The accomplishment I am most proud of is: a. Winning a Grammy. b. Giving birth. c. Having a successful marriage. d. Keeping it real despite my fame. e. Other: ____________________ __________________________. says. “We make our shell so In my relationship, I tend to: LOUD AND tough because inside we are just a. Wear the pants. total mush. But I’ve learned not b. Be a bit of a pushover. CLEAR to be so affected by criticism from c. Need lots of alone time. d. Overanalyze everything. From speaking her mind to others. I let people have their own attempt ing daring career moves, opinions about me and move on. e. Other: _____________________ it’s obvious Pink doesn’t have a For example, at one point I had a _________________________ confi dence problem. “I can’t say publicist tell me I wasn’t pretty that I always feel awesome about enough to be on magazine covers. I’m secretly terrified of: __________ myself or how I look, but I have I ignored that. Sure, Cosmo is one _________________________. always felt confident in what my of the only ones I have been on… I would love to do a duet with: beliefs and opinions are,” she says, but I’ve now been on it twice.” a. Lady Gaga. running a hand through her hair. Speaking of sensitive, Pink b. Pitbull. “I think it’s important to stand up pauses for a minute to pick c. Taylor Swift. for what you believe in and to speak up her phone. “I’m sorry, I just d. Josh Groban. your mind, especially as a woman.” have to check on my baby,” she e. Other: ____________________ Not giving a shit about what says. “She is so yummy, I can’t people think is part of what’s stand it. I want her with me at all ___________________________ created Pink’s bad-girl image— times. Even when Carey tries to ___________________________ well, that and all those tattoos. And take her, I’m like ‘No, no, give her Pink says that perception isn’t back to me.’” As cheesy as it The best relationship advice totally false. “Yeah, I can be pretty sounds, there’s an instant I ever received was: intimidating and mean,” she says. change in Pink as soon as she __________________________. “But I’ve actually never had to fight starts talking about her baby— In bed, there’s no such thing as too many because everyone just assumed I she literally lights up. “Ugh, I could kick their ass. It’s not a bad promised Carey that I wasn’t ______________________. thing to have people think that, so I going to come here and be that just let them.” mom who just gushes for hours,” Just one The truth? “The toughest people she rolls her eyes. “But she just of the things are always the most sensitive,” she makes me so happy.” in her bed (Pinkperforming) KevinMazur/WireImage. (Pillows)Adrianna © Williams/Corbis. 42 COSMOPOLITAN | June 2012 What’s Sexy Now... We fight The patron I saint of badass passionately. babes hits think when you the beach. stop, it’s certain death.” us knew how to fight properly. We didn’t know how to listen.” The two were married in 2006 and then separated a few years later for about a year. They worked things out—but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped fighting. “God, no!” she says loudly. “I saw this movie and the couple had been together for a long time, and they’re angry but they’re just sitting there silently. I’d never want that. I’d rather throw shit at each other. We fight passionately. I think when you stop fighting, it’s certain death. Now, we communi- cate better and have learned to allow the other person their emotions without taking it all personally. But we still fight.” When Pink got pregnant in late 2010, she says they were both ecstatic, although she admits pregnancy wasn’t as amazing as she had always imagined it would be.
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