Post by ~*~Kit_The_Kat~*~ on Sept 29, 2004 9:55:59 GMT -5
Article compliments of FHMUS.com ~ October 2004
Charmed’s sweetest witch still has a few tricks up her sleeve.
Alyssa Milano wants to get something off her chest. It seems that the last two times the Brooklyn-born bombshell has appeared in FHM, she’s claimed that while tending her garden, she routinely doffs her top. Well, today, curled up on a sofa in her San Fernando Valley, CA, home, the 31-year-old blue-jeaned babe is coming clean. “I’ve never gardened topless in my life,” she confesses while batting the brown eyes that became famous when she played Tony Danza’s 12-year-old tomboy TV daughter on Who’s the Boss?. She would later morph through a bootylicious stint as 1-800-COLLECT’s Eva Savealot en route to becoming the belly-button-baring good witch Phoebe on The WB’s Charmed. “Let me let you in on a secret,” Alyssa says, smiling. “My career took a turn toward being a sex symbol—which is beautiful, and I’m flattered—but the concept of it is so foreign that sometimes I make stuff up.”
One thing Alyssa hasn’t had to manufacture is the God-given appeal that’s attracted high-profile boyfriends. There was ex-fiance Scott Wolf, alt-rock band Remy Zero’s Cinjun Tate—who wed her only to see the marriage dissolve 11 months later in 1999—Charmed’s Brian Krause and Eric Dane, Justin Timberlake, and Florida Marlins pitcher Carl Pavano. But sweet Alyssa still hasn’t found “the one.” And she’s cool with that—though tabloids have dubbed her “serial dater,” she’s focusing on such loftier things as visiting troops in Baghdad and working with women and kids in Africa as a UNICEF ambassador.
Still, the tabloids puzzle her. “When I think about my girlfriends, I’m like, ‘Well, so-and-so has been through five guys in six years!’ she says. But magazines want me to be ‘unhappy in love.’ It’s crazy. I think we’re all just looking for true love—and some fun at the same time.”
Does looking for love ever include no-strings-attached sex?
Not since my late 20s. I’m not a prude, but since my divorce, it’s been important to have a connection with someone before I sleep with him. That’s not only because that’s where I’m at in my life, but also because the sex is better that way.
But don’t you get kind of horny in between “connections”?
No, because I take myself out on “dates,” which is what I call masturbation. [laughs] So I’ll do the whole dinner thing for myself, draw myself a bath and. . . .
Got it.
See, I’m innately happy, so my life isn’t altered if there’s a man in it or not—and it’s better to be in a situation because you want to be than because you need to be. I’m also the way I am because, well . . . I’ve been duped! There have been a couple of relationships in the last few years where, once it was over, I was, like, “Wait—this is so not who I thought this person was!” So I’m at that point where I need to feel a spiritual and mental connection with someone to really allow myself to open up in a way that’s powerful.
How many dates does that take?
It’s not even dates. Dates horrify me. Two weeks ago, I had a lunch date with this guy I was fixed up with and I was a nervous wreck. And when I’m a nervous wreck, I don’t shut up. I was like, “Regroup!” So I went to the ladies room and was literally talking to myself: “You’re such a dork! Shut up!” I’m much more of the just-hang-out-and-be-friends-with-someone type. I’ll shave my legs when I go out on a date, which is false advertising because that doesn’t necessarily happen. [pulls up jeans to reveal stubble] It takes a secure woman to walk around with stubbly legs, but I think the key to a strong relationship is accepting each other for all your quirks and weird fetishes.
What about men’s “quirks” with monogamy?
Monogamy is important because my ideal relationship is my parents, who’ve been married 37 years. But if a man has decided to cheat on me and he can keep it from me—and live with himself—then I’m fine maintaining the relationship. But if he’s going to be an idiot and I find out about it, I’m against it!
Read the entire interview and see even more Alyssa Milano in the October 2004 issue of FHM, on newsstands now.
Charmed’s sweetest witch still has a few tricks up her sleeve.
Alyssa Milano wants to get something off her chest. It seems that the last two times the Brooklyn-born bombshell has appeared in FHM, she’s claimed that while tending her garden, she routinely doffs her top. Well, today, curled up on a sofa in her San Fernando Valley, CA, home, the 31-year-old blue-jeaned babe is coming clean. “I’ve never gardened topless in my life,” she confesses while batting the brown eyes that became famous when she played Tony Danza’s 12-year-old tomboy TV daughter on Who’s the Boss?. She would later morph through a bootylicious stint as 1-800-COLLECT’s Eva Savealot en route to becoming the belly-button-baring good witch Phoebe on The WB’s Charmed. “Let me let you in on a secret,” Alyssa says, smiling. “My career took a turn toward being a sex symbol—which is beautiful, and I’m flattered—but the concept of it is so foreign that sometimes I make stuff up.”
One thing Alyssa hasn’t had to manufacture is the God-given appeal that’s attracted high-profile boyfriends. There was ex-fiance Scott Wolf, alt-rock band Remy Zero’s Cinjun Tate—who wed her only to see the marriage dissolve 11 months later in 1999—Charmed’s Brian Krause and Eric Dane, Justin Timberlake, and Florida Marlins pitcher Carl Pavano. But sweet Alyssa still hasn’t found “the one.” And she’s cool with that—though tabloids have dubbed her “serial dater,” she’s focusing on such loftier things as visiting troops in Baghdad and working with women and kids in Africa as a UNICEF ambassador.
Still, the tabloids puzzle her. “When I think about my girlfriends, I’m like, ‘Well, so-and-so has been through five guys in six years!’ she says. But magazines want me to be ‘unhappy in love.’ It’s crazy. I think we’re all just looking for true love—and some fun at the same time.”
Does looking for love ever include no-strings-attached sex?
Not since my late 20s. I’m not a prude, but since my divorce, it’s been important to have a connection with someone before I sleep with him. That’s not only because that’s where I’m at in my life, but also because the sex is better that way.
But don’t you get kind of horny in between “connections”?
No, because I take myself out on “dates,” which is what I call masturbation. [laughs] So I’ll do the whole dinner thing for myself, draw myself a bath and. . . .
Got it.
See, I’m innately happy, so my life isn’t altered if there’s a man in it or not—and it’s better to be in a situation because you want to be than because you need to be. I’m also the way I am because, well . . . I’ve been duped! There have been a couple of relationships in the last few years where, once it was over, I was, like, “Wait—this is so not who I thought this person was!” So I’m at that point where I need to feel a spiritual and mental connection with someone to really allow myself to open up in a way that’s powerful.
How many dates does that take?
It’s not even dates. Dates horrify me. Two weeks ago, I had a lunch date with this guy I was fixed up with and I was a nervous wreck. And when I’m a nervous wreck, I don’t shut up. I was like, “Regroup!” So I went to the ladies room and was literally talking to myself: “You’re such a dork! Shut up!” I’m much more of the just-hang-out-and-be-friends-with-someone type. I’ll shave my legs when I go out on a date, which is false advertising because that doesn’t necessarily happen. [pulls up jeans to reveal stubble] It takes a secure woman to walk around with stubbly legs, but I think the key to a strong relationship is accepting each other for all your quirks and weird fetishes.
What about men’s “quirks” with monogamy?
Monogamy is important because my ideal relationship is my parents, who’ve been married 37 years. But if a man has decided to cheat on me and he can keep it from me—and live with himself—then I’m fine maintaining the relationship. But if he’s going to be an idiot and I find out about it, I’m against it!
Read the entire interview and see even more Alyssa Milano in the October 2004 issue of FHM, on newsstands now.
