Nicole Kidman is in the present day often known as probably the most stunning and profitable actresses of the final three many years, with an Oscar, Golden Globes and two Emmys.
However as a teen the mother-of-four has now revealed that she was usually teased for her top and physique sort, to the purpose the place she desperately wished to vary herself to slot in with the opposite women.
“I imply, I used to be a red-headed, fair-skinned woman who was virtually 5’11 on the age of 14,” she mentioned within the new Vogue documentary, In Vogue: The 90s, airing on Hulu. “I’d get teased, and it wasn’t form.”
Nevertheless, when she started to seek out fame within the early Nineteen Nineties she was requested by John Galliano of Dior if he may costume her for the 1997 Academy Award, and it was a turning level for the star.
“Are you able to consider it?” she asks rhetorically. “My entire life, I wished to be 5’2” and curvaceous and instantly, being 5’11 and fully type of skinny and flat chested, was like, ‘Nice, we are able to costume you.'”
Nicole additionally spoke of how the 90s was a turning level for trend and Hollywood, recalling the way in which the actresses of the Fifties had been “affiliated” with designers and particular appears.
“I grew up watching Audrey Hepburn and Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly — all these girls whose model was created with the designers that they’re affiliated with,” she mentioned.
“They only liked trend. So I keep in mind pondering, however in fact, this needs to be introduced into Hollywood now, and we needs to be carrying the issues which might be made in these attractive little salons in Paris. As a result of that’s what they used to do, so why aren’t we nonetheless doing it?”
She then shared that getting the prospect to be given “entry” to that world left her feeling like “a bit of woman who’s been given the prospect to step into this type of fantasy world”.
Now, at 57, Nicole is a trend icon, and earlier in the summertime was joined by her daughter Sunday Rose at Balenciaga’s 53rd Couture Assortment as a part of Paris Trend Week.
The teenager, now 15, is clearly following in her mother’s trend footsteps and taking inspiration from Nicole.
Nicole rocked a floor-length pores and skin tight robe that highlighted her lean physique, whereas Sunday stored issues stylish in a extra age-appropriate model, carrying a full-sleeved black velvet mini costume with sheer tights and a pair of stiletto heels.